PROJECTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Charlotte approves $110
million for convention
center expansion
Charlotte City Council has ap-
proved a $110-million plan to expand
and renovate the Charlotte Conven-
tion Center, the Charlotte Observer
has reported.

The project will add 93,000 sq. ft.

of space along Stonewall St. Plans
include 15 new meeting spaces with
movable walls and a pedestrian
bridge across Stonewall St. connect-
ing the center to the Novel apart-
ment and retail development, as well
as the Blue Line light-rail station and
the 700-room Westin Hotel.

Holder-Edison Foard-Leeper Co.

has been selected as construction
manager for the project, while TVS
North Carolina will provide architec-
tural services.

Construction is expected to start
next year and would run through
2020. Construction on the new four
story, 145,000-sq. ft. structure is set
to start in spring 2019 at the corner
of Blue Ridge and Macon Pond
roads. The cancer center should open in
late 2020.

"We believe our new cancer cen-
ter will create a hub for oncology
care for patients from across Wake
County and Eastern North Carolina,”
UNC Rex president Steve Burriss
said in a statement. “This center will
provide a new home to care for
more people who rely on us for
treatment and support during a can-
cer diagnosis."
The four-story building is more
than double the space currently ded-
icated to cancer care on the Rex
Hospital campus, officials said.

Developers plan $30 million
north Charlotte project with
five-story hotel, commercial
space Construction on a $30 million pro-
ject in north Charlotte should start in
the first quarter of 2019, the Char-
lotte Business Journal reports.

2018-2019 edition
UNC Rex Healthcare to
build $65 million Raleigh
cancer center
UNC Rex Healthcare has an-
nounced a $65 million project to
build a new cancer center next to
the main hospital in Raleigh.

The North Carolina Construction News — Winter 2018 — 15