PROJECTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
North Carolina Construction News staff writer
Here are some projects and op-
portunities recently reported in
North Carolina Construction News.

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LLFlex to invest $7.6 million
in new High Point building
Kentucky-based LLFlex will in-
vest $7.6 million in a new building
in High Point and add 46 jobs, offi-
cials announced on Jan. 7.

Griffin Electric providing
installation work on in-
progress Advance Auto
Parts tower in Raleigh
Electrical subcontractor Wayne J.

Griffin Electric, Inc. says it is cur-
rently providing installation work on
Advance Auto Parts Tower, a
328,600-sq. ft. mixed-use commer-
cial building in Raleigh.

The tower is expected to open in
the fall of 2020 and will stand 20-
stories high. In addition to 11 floors
of office space, the building will
also feature an eight-level parking
garage, retail space, as well as ac-
cess to a conference center and ter-
race-level amenities. Situated in the
heart of North Hills in midtown
Raleigh, the building is adjacent to a
35-story residential tower and is
within walking distance of a variety
of restaurants, hotels, retail shops,
and entertainment options.

HeLLFlex has custom packaging
and lamination solutions for the
construction, tobacco and wire and
cable industries for more than 90
years, the governor’s office said
Tuesday in a news release announc-
ing the investment.

The business will open in a new
building in the Gallimore Industrial
Center, 738 Gallimore Dairy Rd., the
High Point Economic Development
Corp. says.

New five-story office
building to start
construction in Morrisville
Construction will start soon on a
five-story, 198,535 sq. ft. office
building in Morrisville.

Indianapolis-based Strategic
Capital Partners and FCP of Chevy
Chase, MD, said that the Class A
building will be situated on 16.2
acres at 712 Slater Rd. overlooking
the Interstate 40/540 interchange.

The building has been given the
name Forty540 phase II, Triangle
Business Journal reports.

The project is expected to be
completed by mid-2021.

10 — JAN/FEB 2020 — The North Carolina Construction News
The Raleigh-Durham Griffin team
is responsible for the electrical and
lighting systems on-site. Griffin
Electric’s work will also include in-
stalling power distribution, lightning
protection, fire alarm systems, and
a 750 kW unit generator.

The project team, which antici-
pates LEED Certification due to the
building’s high resource efficiency,
also includes construction manager
Holder Construction Company.

Duda Paine Architects, LLP of
Durham is serving as the architect,
while Crenshaw Consulting Engi-
neers of Raleigh is the project’s
electrical engineer.

Middleburg Communities
to build 250-unit
multifamily project in
Wilmington Middleburg Communities is en-
tering the Wilmington market with a
250-unit multifamily project to be
constructed on a newly acquired
9.3-acre site in the Newland master-
planned Riverlights community,
Multi-Housing News reports. Con-
struction of Mosby at Riverlights, a
Class A apartment community at
4027 Watercraft Ferry Ave., is
scheduled to start imminently with
leasing beginning in late 2020.

Middleburg Construction is serv-
ing as general contractor and
McKim & Creed is providing civil en-
gineering services. Cline Design As-
sociates is the architect of record,
interior designer and landscape ar-
chitect. Duke Realty begins
construction on industrial
building near Raleigh
Duke Realty Corp. has an-
nounced that it is building a new,
speculative, 165,921-sq.-ft. bulk
warehouse south of Raleigh.

Located in Garner, the project
dubbed Greenfield North 1201 will
be the eighth industrial building
owned and operated by Duke Re-
alty in the Greenfield North Busi-
ness Park. All of the company’s
other buildings in the park are cur-
rently 100 percent leased.

Construction on Greenfield
North 1201 is underway
and is set to complete in
July 2020.

Greenfield North 1201 will fea-
ture 32’ clear height, 50’ x 50’ col-
umn spacing, 30 – 9’ x 10’ dock
doors, two 12’ x 14’ drive-in doors,
an ESFR fire protection system and
2,400-amp electrical service. Out-
side the building will be a 120’ truck
court and parking for 96 trailers and
129 automobiles.