Second tower in $700M Charlotte project moves forward, signs big law firm as anchor
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- Moore & Van Allen will anchor Tower Two at Queensbridge Collective by 2028.
- The $700M project includes a 43-story tower with offices, apartments and retail.
- The law firm’s lease signals the launch of Phase Two of the two-tower development.
North Carolina’s largest law firm signed a 15-year lease to become an anchor tenant in the second tower of a new $700-million skyline building by the uptown and South End districts in Charlotte, helping ensure the project can now move forward.
Charlotte-based Moore and Van Allen PLLC, will be moving to Tower Two at Queensbridge Collective, a new mixed-used building at 1111 South Tryon St. The deal was announced Friday evening by builder Riverside Investment and Development and its partners Woodfield Development and PGIM Real Estate.
Structural framework on the project’s first tower, with 42 stories for apartments retail and restaurants, was complete in February after breaking ground in May 2023, The Charlotte Observer previously reported.
After leaving the Bank of America Corporate Center, the law firm with 700 employees in the Southeast will take up nine floors and 206,000 square feet at the top of the building. Some of the features there include a top-floor event area with a ballroom, boardroom and indoor-outdoor lounge.
Riverside is expected to deliver the space by 2028.
Moore and Van Allen moved into the Bank of America Corporate Center in 1993 when the building opened. The lease term for the new building is 15 years, starting in 2028.
After it’s complete, the mixed-use tower will have 43 stories and will be the eighth tallest building in Charlotte, standing 540 feet tall. It will have 356,000 rentable square feet of office space above more than 300 rental apartments.
Close to 10% of the project area will be allocated to indoor and outdoor amenities, 1,400 parking spaces and more than 20,000 square feet of onsite retail for the combined two-tower development, according to the project’s development team.
The new residential tower on Morehead Street will offer mostly studio and one-bedroom apartments, plus two-story penthouse townhouses on the top floors. This building will complement the larger units planned for the nearby Phase One Tower, which is set to finish late this year.
About Moore and Van Allen
The law firm was founded in 1950 in uptown Charlotte.
With over 400 attorneys, it serves clients in more than 90 practice areas ranging from financial services and corporate law to real estate, litigation, economic development and human trafficking prevention.
More on Riverside
Riverside Investment and Development, a Chicago real estate investment firm, was founded in 2010 by John O’Donnell, a real estate veteran. The firm handles large development and redevelopment projects.
This story was originally published September 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM.
