Real Estate Whispers: Hopes for Charlotte's next office tower

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Welcome to another tantalizing installment of Charlotte Commercial Real Estate Whispers, our occasional column that unveils the sultry secrets of building sales, rezonings and irresistible real estate intrigue just for you. Prepare to be seduced by the hottest insights, as the most forbidden secrets pique your professional curiosity.

Envisioning Charlotte’s next office tower; brokers are abuzz about plans off Morehead Street

It’s a tough time to build a new office tower.

But if there is one in Charlotte to be built anytime soon, it could be Crescent Communities and Nuveen Real Estate’s proposed tower at Carson and Tryon streets off Morehead Street, on the site of an Enterprise car lot.