CHARLOTTE, N.C., October 18, 2011 – BrookeChase Properties awarded Concorde Construction the construction for an 18 unit, 15,750 square foot apartment complex in Matthews, NC.  This building is part of Matthews Gateway, a 6.3 acre urban mixed-use development centered in the heart of the Town of Matthews.  The entire development will consist of 22,285 square feet of Retail/Restaurant/Office, 8,520 square feet of Medical, and 72 Residential Lofts.  Urban Architectural Group is the architect of record.

About Concorde Construction
Concorde Construction Company is a full service general contractor providing construction, pre-construction, consulting, and design-build services to a range of commercial, hospitality, urban mixed-use, medical office, industrial, and multi-unit clients.  Since its inception in 1994, Concorde has distinguished itself through the successful completion of many high-profile, complex projects throughout the Carolinas.  Concorde is located in Charlotte, NC. www.concordeconst.com.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C., September 30, 2011 –Concorde Construction completed their 9th Regus project located in Raleigh-Durham’s Meridian Parkway Building.  Concorde renovated over 8,000 square feet of private offices, the business center, conference rooms, and the business café.  This is the largest Regus business center nationally totaling over 50,000 square feet. 

About Regus
Regus is the world’s largest provider of flexible workplaces, with products and services ranging from fully equipped offices to professional meeting rooms, business lounges and the world’s largest network of video communication studios. Regus enables people to work their way, whether it’s from home, on the road or from an office. Customers such as Google, GlaxoSmithKline, and Nokia join hundreds of thousands of growing small and medium businesses that benefit from outsourcing their office and workplace needs to Regus, allowing them to focus on their core activities.

Over 900,000 customers a day benefit from Regus facilities spread across a global footprint of 1,200 locations in 550 cities and 90 countries, which allow individuals and companies to work wherever, however and whenever they want to. Regus was founded in Brussels, Belgium in 1989, is headquartered in Luxembourg and listed on the London Stock Exchange. For more information please visit: www.regus.com

To download a copy of the full report please visit www.regus.presscentre.com

 
About Concorde Construction
Concorde Construction Company is a full service general contractor providing construction, pre-construction, consulting, and design-build services to a range of commercial, hospitality, urban mixed-use, medical office, industrial, and multi-unit clients.  Since its inception in 1994, Concorde has distinguished itself through the successful completion of many high-profile, complex projects throughout the Carolinas.  Concorde is located in Charlotte, NC. www.concordeconst.com.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C., September 23, 2011 – Concorde Construction completed their 8th Regus project.  This 11,000 square foot interior office up-fit located in the Linville Building at Perimeter Woods and managed by Trinity Partners will host 52 private offices, a business center, a business cafe, lobby, and conference room. 

About Regus
Regus is the world’s largest provider of flexible workplaces, with products and services ranging from fully equipped offices to professional meeting rooms, business lounges and the world’s largest network of video communication studios. Regus enables people to work their way, whether it’s from home, on the road or from an office. Customers such as Google, GlaxoSmithKline, and Nokia join hundreds of thousands of growing small and medium businesses that benefit from outsourcing their office and workplace needs to Regus, allowing them to focus on their core activities.

Over 900,000 customers a day benefit from Regus facilities spread across a global footprint of 1,200 locations in 550 cities and 90 countries, which allow individuals and companies to work wherever, however and whenever they want to. Regus was founded in Brussels, Belgium in 1989, is headquartered in Luxembourg and listed on the London Stock Exchange. For more information please visit: www.regus.com

To download a copy of the full report please visit www.regus.presscentre.com

 
About Concorde Construction
Concorde Construction Company is a full service general contractor providing construction, pre-construction, consulting, and design-build services to a range of commercial, hospitality, urban mixed-use, medical office, industrial, and multi-unit clients.  Since its inception in 1994, Concorde has distinguished itself through the successful completion of many high-profile, complex projects throughout the Carolinas.  Concorde is located in Charlotte, NC. www.concordeconst.com.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C., August 25, 2011 – Mike Martin has joined Concorde Construction as Project Superintendent. He has over 15 years of experience and resides in Charlotte, NC with his wife and two sons.

Aquesta Bank opened its fourth branch May 25 in the Mayhew Shopping Center at 1078 Brawley School Road in Mooresville and will hold a ribbon cutting and reception June 28 from 4 to 8 p.m.

The reception will include refreshments, an inflatable bounce house for children and the chance to win tickets for two for a hot air balloon ride over Lake Norman. The bank also offers a no-obligation insurance review and $50 cash for customers opening checking accounts between June 27 and July 1.

The new branch, designed by Roger Layman Architecture in Davidson and built by Concorde Construction in Charlotte, has four customer service stations, a two-lane drive-through and safe-deposit boxes, as well as a night-deposit box and drive- up ATM that will be accessible 24 hours a day.

In an effort to further Aquesta Bank’s green initiatives, SunEnergy 1 in Mooresville will install solar panels on the roof of the drive-through, and all power generated from the solar panels will be directed to the local power grid. Also, Concorde Construction followed a rigorous waste recycling program during construction of the branch, recycling about 85 percent of the entire construction load – 39,570 pounds of waste.

The Brawley School Road branch hours are Monday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 5p.m., Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon.

“We are very excited about our expansion to this area of Mooresville,” CEO and President of Aquesta Bank Jim Engel said. “Aquesta currently serves many Mooresville residents and businesses alike, so we look forward to offering them a more convenient location for their banking.”

Aquesta Bank has locations in Cornelius, Davidson and two locations in Mooresville. Its wholly-owned independent insurance agency, Aquesta Insurance Services, Inc., has offices in Cornelius, Mooresville, Concord and Wilmington.

CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 23, 2011 – Garth Hewitt has joined Concorde Construction as Project Superintendent. He has over 17 years of experience and resides in Clover, SC with his wife and daughter.

About Concorde Construction
Concorde Construction Company is a full service general contractor providing construction, pre-construction, consulting, and design-build services to a range of commercial, hospitality, urban mixed-use, medical office, industrial, and multi-unit clients.  Since its inception in 1994, Concorde has distinguished itself through the successful completion of many high-profile, complex projects throughout the Carolinas.  Concorde is located in Charlotte, NC. www.concordeconst.com.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 23, 2011 – Regus has awarded Concorde Construction their 7th Regus project.  This 10,000 square foot interior office up-fit located in Columbia, SC will host over 50 private offices, a business center, a business cafe, lobby, and conference room. 

About Regus

Regus is the world’s largest provider of flexible workplaces, with products and services ranging from fully equipped offices to professional meeting rooms, business lounges and the world’s largest network of video communication studios. Regus enables people to work their way, whether it’s from home, on the road or from an office. Customers such as Google, GlaxoSmithKline, and Nokia join hundreds of thousands of growing small and medium businesses that benefit from outsourcing their office and workplace needs to Regus, allowing them to focus on their core activities.

Over 800,000 customers a day benefit from Regus facilities spread across a global footprint of 1,100 locations in 500 cities and 88 countries, which allow individuals and companies to work wherever, however and whenever they want to. Regus was founded in Brussels, Belgium in 1989, is headquartered in Luxembourg and listed on the London Stock Exchange. For more information please visit: www.regus.com

To download a copy of the full report please visit www.regus.presscentre.com

About Concorde Construction
Concorde Construction Company is a full service general contractor providing construction, pre-construction, consulting, and design-build services to a range of commercial, hospitality, urban mixed-use, medical office, industrial, and multi-unit clients.  Since its inception in 1994, Concorde has distinguished itself through the successful completion of many high-profile, complex projects throughout the Carolinas.  Concorde is located in Charlotte, NC. www.concordeconst.com.

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Two medical buildings, Earth Fare coming to Gilead Road

The Herald Weekly
Posted by CW Web Admin on March 31, 2011
by Frank DeLoache

Earth Fare is the first of three new projects getting under way soon in The Park Huntersville, west of Presbyterian Hospital.

HUNTERSVILLE –Earth Fare, a chain that calls itself “the healthy supermarket,” will open its third store in the Charlotte region this summer on Boren Street, just west of the Presbyterian Hospital and Torrence Creek Shopping Center.

Drivers have watched the progress of the building since February, but what they can’t see are the two medical buildings that will spring up this year between Boren Street and McCoy Road in a growing medical office complex a short distance from Presbyterian Hospital.

On land west of the Earth Fare site, Nick O’Shaughnessy, owner of O’Shaughnessy Realty & Development, in Cornelius, is getting ready to break ground on a two-story medical condominium building at 15419 Hodges Circle. O’Shaughnessy said he recently awarded the construction contract to Concorde Construction of Charlotte.

On land west of The Gilead Center, Dr. Tate C. Langdon, who offers cosmetic and family dentistry, plans to begin construction on a 3,800-square-foot dental office in June. Langdon, who currently rents space in the Rosedale Shopping Center, expects construction on his stand-alone medical office to take about six months.

Langdon’s new dental office is different from the one featured on a sign at the corner of Gilead and McCoy roads. The sign advertises a 4,000-square-foot dental office building and asks people to call D&K Carolina.

According to records with the N.C. Secretary of State’s Office, Sousan M. Amiri, of Waxhaw, is the registered manager for D&K Carolina and Michael Amiri is a member of the corporation. The Amiris did not return a phone call from the Herald Weekly.

An artists' rendering of the medical condominium building that O' Shaugnessy Realty & Development is getting ready to build at 15419 Hodges Circle off of Gilead Rd.
Here’s a little more information about each of the three projects coming to life:

• Construction on the 24,989-square-foot Earth Fare started late in 2010 at 14021 Boren St. Spokeswoman Kristi Kanzig said the store will open sometime this summer, but the company won’t provide any more details until that time. Earth Fare operates only two other stores in the Charlotte area, in Ballantyne and SouthPark, and says it carries “one of the largest selections of local and organic produce on the East Coast.”

Construction plans calls for 99 parking spaces, and the developer, Casto, is proceeding with site work on two smaller parcels that front Gilead Road. Brad Priest, commercial planner for the Town of Huntersville, said zoning prohibits a retail use of those smaller parcels. The town would allow other commercial uses, such as a restaurant, office or bank. The total development takes up about 3 acres.

• Horizon Eyecare of Charlotte has contracted to purchase the entire first floor of the O’Shaughnessy medical building, and half of the second floor also is under contract, the developer said. That’s leaves one suite of about 4,000 square feet still available in the 17,012-square-foot building at 15419 Hodges Circle.

The building is one of the first pieces of The Gilead Center, the most recent development phase of Bank of America’s The Park development.

Construction on the medical condominium should finish by September, and O’Shaughnessy said he eventually hopes to build a second medical office building next door. He’s glad to see Langdon proceeding with construction of his medical office, which only strengthens the attraction of other medical businesses.

• Langdon said he bought his land on Hodges Circle more than two years ago, and he’s been waiting to complete his lease in the Rosedale center. He said he likes the site because of the “road exposure.”

The new dental office will have eight “operatories,” Langdon said. He has six full- and part-time employees.
 

January 25, 2011 – Mooresville, NC – On Tuesday, January 25, local residents, businesses and area town officials joined Aquesta Bank in celebrating the construction of its newest full service Mooresville branch.  A ceremony was held at the site for the new branch west of I-77 off Brawley School Road in front of Bloom.

Aquesta CEO & President, Jim Engel welcomed guests and expressed the bank’s excitement in bringing another branch to the Mooresville community.   Mooresville-South Iredell Chamber President Karen Shore, Lake Norman Chamber President Bill Russell, Architect Roger Layman and General Contractor Concorde Construction’s David Privitera joined Jim Engel and various town officials in hosting the celebration.

Architect Roger Layman designed the new branch to have many of the same features as the Aquesta headquarters building, including blue-green glass, natural stone and environmentally friendly features. The 3,400 square foot building will contain 4 offices, a conference room, teller station, safety deposit boxes, a detached solar paneled drive-thru with ATM and a 5-person staff.  The team is pursuing an Energy Star rating for the building for its energy efficiency and will sell the solar power and Renewal Energy Certificates generated from the drive-thru solar panels.  

“This site is an ideal location for many of our customers who already live in the area and will now have yet another convenient banking location,” said Jim Engel. “With this new branch, we have positioned ourselves to better service the Mooresville community’s banking needs.” Branch Manager Pat Squires will head up the team of professionals at the new location.  Pat, formerly with Wachovia/Wells Fargo, has been a long standing member of the banking community in Mooresville. 

The branch is being constructed by Concorde Construction out of Charlotte and is scheduled for completion in May of 2011.  In keeping with Aquesta’s environmental friendly theme, Concorde Construction is recycling all construction waste for this project.  
 
Aquesta Bank is a community bank dedicated to providing quality, relationship based banking for the Lake Norman area. Aquesta focuses on personal financial solutions as well as those for small to medium-sized businesses. Aquesta uses cutting edge technology to better service its customers, including on-line banking, on-line cash management, remote deposit technology and nationwide free ATM usage. 

For more information on Aquesta Bank, please contact Lauren Furcht, Director of Marketing at (704) 439-4335 or visit our website at www.aquesta.com.
 

CHARLOTTE, N.C., January 19, 2011 Concorde Construction Co. has given Chief Operating Officer David Privitera the additional post of president, a role previously held by Chief Executive Charles Hodges.  Hodges, who has been president and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) since 1994, remains chairman and CEO.

“David has done an exceptional job leading Concorde over the last five years,” states CEO Charley Hodges, “Under his watchful eye, the company delivers an excellent product and customer satisfaction levels are at an all time high.  With him at the helm, the company is poised for a bright future.”

Privitera has been Chief Operating Officer of Concorde Construction’s operations since 2005. He has grown the company over 250% percent and maintains a 60% success rate for the projects Concorde Construction pursues.  In addition to Privitera being named a 2008 Charlotte Business Journal 40 Under 40 Award Recipient, Concorde has received multiple local, regional, and national awards under his leadership. These include safety awards, an Innovation Award from Clean Air Works!, Charlotte Business Journal’s Fast 50, and the Business Leader’s Top 100 NC Small Business to name a few. 

With over twenty one years of experience, Privitera has built his reputation as a trusted and reliable general contractor whose success hinges on his proven commitment to do what he says he is going to do. 

Tod Skinner, Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Livingston & Haven quotes, “David is able to leverage his prior experience to bring big company know-how to a more personal level of attention and detail - quite an attractive combination.”

“I cannot say enough positive things about David and his company, Concorde Construction,’ explains Doug Stafford, Principal at Griffin Stafford.  “He is a highly knowledgeable contractor and has a remarkable sense of urgency. David and his management team operate each job with military precision. We are extremely pleased with their work and can highly recommend then to anyone seeking a high-quality general contractor.”

Raised in Buffalo, New York, Privitera graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and Planning from State University of New York at Buffalo.  He moved to Charlotte in 1999 where he worked as a project executive for ADF Construction Co. and then as a Vice President for Shelco Inc.  David has three children and serves as Vice Chair for Union Academy Board of Directors in Monroe, NC.

"Concorde Construction made Classroom Central's renovation project materialize. In 3 weeks, Classroom Central had a completely restored restroom, a room to store cardboard boxes built, shelving units bolted to our walls and a complete fresh coat of paint. They gathered businesses together, brought them to Classroom Central and created a group effort among them all to get this project completed on time. We are so grateful to have friends like Concorde Construction and all those that were a part of this team." Michelle Daley, Operations Manager Classroom Central (Former)

Proceeds will benefit CREW Charlotte, Inc. Scholarship Endowment Fund at the UNC Charlotte Belk College of Business.  This scholarship provides financial assistance to a graduate student with a focus on real estate or an undergraduate student with at least 60 credit hours and a declared major with a real estate concentration.  The endowment was created in 2008 but the first scholarship was awarded in 2006. Historically, scholarships have been $3,000 annually.  Through CREW Charlotte’s partnership with such a distinguished institution of higher learning, we are building a legacy of power, recognition and influence in our community. 

CREW Charlotte, Inc., a non-profit professional organization comprised of individuals whose professions are associated with commercial real estate.  Concorde Construction's Director of Business Development, Holly Alexander, currently serves on the Board of Directors for CREW Charlotte and as a National Delegate and President-Elect.

Queen City in Pink is a national effort that takes place during the Susan G. Komen National Breast Cancer Awareness Week typically held the first week of October.  Here, communities, building owners, and companies show their support by literally lighting up their facilities in pink, tinting fountains pink, and hanging banners or ribbons from buildings.  The Town of Ayrsley was one of 42 entities that participated in Queen City in Pink throughout Charlotte in 2009 and one of over 20 entities to participate in 2008.  The community lights up the Theater, displays pink ribbons around the development, and tints the fountain in the pavilion pink.

Here, students visited Concorde's Parkway Crossing Medical Office Building that was under construction.  They studied the site, the construction materials, and general safety.