Tower proposed for Midtown Charlotte with apartments, shops and a hotel
A local developer filed plans this week to build a mixed-use, high-rise development in Midtown on a vacant parcel, the latest addition to Charlotte’s changing skyline.
Pappas Properties and Terwilliger Pappas are seeking to rezone roughly 2.2 acres at 1175 Pearl Park Way — just off Kenilworth Avenue — into a mixture of uses.
Plans call for 350 apartments, a 150-room hotel and up to 24,000 square feet of retail. The developer is seeking building heights of up to 150 feet on one portion of the site and 250 feet on a second portion. That could translate to a 10-story building and a 17-story building, respectively.
The parcels sit between Kenilworth and Berkeley avenues. Plans could change: the developers are asking to reserve the right to convert the hotel into 300 additional apartments or up to 100,000 square feet of medical and office space.
Any buildings along Pearl Park Way and Kenilworth Avenue will have ground-floor retail, the developer wrote in its filing.
Building up Midtown
This is another phase in Pappas Properties and Terwilliger Pappas’ work in Midtown, according to the developers.
The companies are behind Solis Midtown, a 328-unit apartment building on Harding Place, according to the developer’s website. The project is expected to be completed next spring.
In the latest Midtown project along Pearl Park Way, Pappas Properties said the 150-room Hilton Tapestry Hotel would be at the corner of Berkeley Avenue and Pearl Park Way.
The 350 apartments would be adjacent to the hotel along Pearl Park Way, extending out to Kenilworth Avenue. There will be two connected towers — one will be higher than the other — but still considered one building, Tori Alexander of Pappas Properties told The Charlotte Observer.
The first floor of the apartment building will include restaurant space, the developer said.
“Midtown is becoming one of the most dynamic submarkets in Charlotte,” Jeff Smith, executive vice president of Terwilliger Pappas said, according to a statement. “We believe this new community will attract those in the surrounding neighborhoods including business and medical professionals.”
The building will have apartments of various sizes, including units over 1,150 square feet. It will also feature an amenity deck with views of the Charlotte skyline.
The rezoning application would allow for additional height on the apartment building, according to a news release from Pappas Properties. Residential, hotel and retail are already permitted under existing zoning.
City review of the application will likely happen later this year with public hearings on the project coming in early 2023.
This story was originally published May 11, 2022 at 10:05 AM.
