A Wilmington company wants to revive an old shopping center on Wrightsville Avenue and make it more useful to an adjacent apartment community. Rainbow Square, built in 1974 at 3901 Wrightsville Ave., would be redone and expanded to include a swimming pool, leasing office and gathering area for Elevation Apartments if site plans recently submitted to the city of Wilmingt ...

A rezoning request from developers proposing a commercial mixed-use project on Oleander Drive, which would replace a vacant movie theater and parking lot, moved forward this week. The request, which was given the green light by the city's Planning Commission on Wednesday night, would rezone the property on 5335 and 5429 Oleander Drive from Community Business Distric ...

Property on North 23rd Street in Wilmington has changed hands after a sell-off by longtime beer distributor R.A. Jeffreys. The former R.A. Jeffreys facility in the 800 block of North 23rd Street now belongs to Adams Beverages, which according to the company's website is a beer and non-alcoholic beverage distributor and Anheuser-Busch wholesaler that has been owned a ...

Greensboro-based The Carroll Companies submitted some of its site plans Wednesday to the city of Wilmington for the major mixed-use project the firm is planning on more than 44 acres on Military Cutoff Road. The plans, completed by Paramounte Engineering Inc. of Wilmington and labeled “Carroll at The Avenue,” are in line with what Carroll Companies has descr ...

A grassroots organization formed to oppose a sand mine operation proposed in the Castle Hayne area wants to take its concerns over what members say is the potential for pollution and declining property values to county commissioners, should a special use permit be supported by the New Hanover County Planning Board on Thursday. The group, Concerned Citizens of New Hanove ...

A Castle Hayne property being eyed for a proposed sand mining operation is scheduled to go before the county’s planning board next week. The property owner, Hilton Properties Limited Partnership, has requested rezoning about 63 acres in the 4100 block of Castle Hayne Road from rural agricultural to heavy industrial, according to the New Hanover County plannin ...

Autumn Hall, a mixed-use development on Eastwood Road, has 65,000 square feet of office space, and the community’s development team wants to add more than 90,000 square feet of office space alone in the community’s next phase.   The offices would be in a 13-acre section of Autumn Hall that will also include 28,000 square feet of retail or restaurant spac ...

The Cape Fear chapter of Commercial Real Estate Women held its first-ever Awards of Excellence on Thursday at the Wilmington Convention Center.   The awards, which were announced by Wilmington Mayor Bill Saffo during the lunch event, recognized "excellence and leadership" in commercial real estate in the Cape Fear region. “The Cape Fear ...

A longtime local law firm has grown into new office space, planning to move its main operations to Eastwood Road from downtown Wilmington. The attorneys of Murchison, Taylor & Gibson announced the decision Thursday to relocate their firm's main operations to 1979 Eastwood Road, Suite 101, in Landfall Park.   Founded in 1955, MT&G has been headquartere ...

The city of Wilmington is set to move forward with an appraisal this week of a 1.5 acre Castle Street property once used as a Wave Transit bus maintenance facility. Meanwhile, the future of that property remains unclear. The property, located at 1110 Castle St., is slated to be visited by an appraiser Thursday, but the full report is expected within 30 days, Dyl ...