Charlotte Commercial Real Estate Whispers — Feb. 21, 2025

Inside Legacy Union's latest office tower; Queensbridge Collective developer bullish on starting office tower; Clearing land for Wegmans; Tepper Sports knocks down buildings by stadium

It’s time once again to step inside the hush-hush world of Charlotte Commercial Real Estate Whispers, where behind-closed-doors deals and tantalizing trends are laid bare. This is your all-access pass to the seductive underbelly of the city’s real estate game—because the best secrets are the ones you’re not supposed to know.

Inside Robinson Bradshaw’s top floors at Legacy Union’s new 6Hundred office tower: fitness center, tricked out tech in conference rooms, terraces with fire pits, pickleball court

Charlotte law firm Robinson Bradshaw moved into the top four floors of Lincoln Property Co.’s newest office tower this week at Legacy Union. It is at 600 S. Tryon St. and is called, appropriately, 6Hundred.

As there are few recently completed Charlotte office towers nowadays, we asked and received permission from the firm to take a tour of what modern Class A office space looks like in 2025.

As someone who worked at the Charlotte Observer building on this very site for about a decade, I can tell you with certainty that this is, oh, 100 times better.

Unlike the four-story Observer building, whose notable 1970s architectural feature was windows that resembled gun turrets, the 24-story 6Hundred has that new-office smell. When combined with new furniture, light-friendly design and modern touches, it would seem to be a pleasant place to show up to work.

That’s part of the rationale for state-of-the-art offices these days: that you want your employees to love going to work — yes, of course for the work and the colleagues, but also for the features of your office building.