More businesses are on their way to the growing northern Brunswick County town of Leland. Hank Adams and Allan Fox of Coldwell Banker Commercial Sun Coast Partners, the leasing agents for the newly built Ocean Gate Plaza in Leland, announced this week that the retail center is now fully occupied. The last three available spaces in Ocean Gate Plaza, 1132 New Pointe Bl ...

In the sprint toward tourist season, new businesses and homes have arrived or are coming to Carolina Beach and the town’s boardwalk. Three retail units created out of the former bumper car track at 11 Pavilion Ave. on the Carolina Beach Boardwalk have been leased, according to a recent announcement from Coldwell Banker Commercial Sun Coast Partners. Two of ...

Wilmington-based Canines for Service Inc. announced this week that the organization is buying a space on Old Dairy Road that it had been leasing for three years.  The 5,022-square-foot unit at 221 Old Dairy Road will continue to be used by Canines for Service (CFS) in its mission to provide highly skilled service dogs for veterans and other ...

The new owners of an aging shopping center on South College Road plan to revamp the nearly 40-year-old property near the University of North Carolina Wilmington after paying $4.4 million for it. University Square, 806 S. College Road, is home to Saigon Market, a location of bakery Apple Annie's, Long Island Eatery, Big Gal's Boutique and Wilmington Furniture &am ...

The owners of a Second Street hotel who have revamped the historic property formerly known as The Wilmingtonian are proposing to add 45 more hotel rooms to downtown Wilmington's inventory, according to site plans recently submitted to the city. In place of an existing parking lot across from the former Wilmingtonian, which has been rebranded as ARRIVE Wilmington, ho ...

Two music industry veterans plan to open a store focused on music in a Wilmington retail center this fall, a commercial real estate broker said Wednesday.    Loud Music, founded by Michael Cole and choreographer Tina Landon, will be located next to JohnnyLukes KitchenBar at 5500 Market St. in 5500 Market Center, according to an announcement from Wilmington-base ...

A 1,046-acre tract in northern Pender County is under construction, being transformed into a solar farm to power all U.S. operations of Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk. Those operations include an expanding pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Johnston County. Confirmation of the project from Novo Nordisk comes on the heels of the company’s recent anno ...

Crews are working on the site for a Holiday Inn Express coming to Porters Neck, and developers said Wednesday that they expect the project to be complete by next year. The 104-room hotel (scaled down during the planning process from a 150-room hotel proposal) on Porters Neck Road will have an indoor heated pool and 1,000 square feet of meeting space, said Barry Eag ...

A medical property on Dawson Street in Wilmington sold recently for $1.3 million, according to an announcement Tuesday from Port City-based Coldwell Banker Commercial Sun Coast Partners. The transaction was a sale-leaseback of the Dawson Street Urgent Care and Medical Center at 608 Dawson St., the release stated. "The details of the leaseback were not discl ...

Charlie Rivenbark Jr. has joined the brokerage team at Wilmington-based commercial real estate firm Cape Fear Commercial. He is a senior vice president at CFC, bringing nearly 30 years of experience to his new role, according to a news release from CFC. Rivenbark formerly was with Wilmington-based commercial real estate firm Maus, Warwick, Matthews & Co. “W ...