Parker Poe's Real Estate and Commercial Development Practice Group is well-known across the Carolinas and the Southeast for its work in helping clients structure, negotiate and close commercial real estate transactions. We represent developers, owners, buyers, sellers, landlords and tenants in a variety of real estate matters.

Experience Highlights

• Acquisition, Development, Exchange and Sale – Assist clients with investment and development projects. Structure transactions involving recreational and resort properties, commercial and residential condominiums, office buildings and manufacturing facilities.
• Commercial Leasing – Negotiate leases for retail, office and industrial projects, including big-box power centers, neighborhood shopping centers, office towers and business parks.
• Multifamily and Seniors Housing – Represent developers, buyers and sellers of multifamily projects, nursing homes, assisted living facilities and skilled nursing centers. Negotiate and close financings insured under various HUD/FHA housing programs, including 202, 207, 221, 223 and 232.
• Affordable Housing/ Tax Credits – Represent developers and owners of affordable housing projects qualifying for low income housing tax credits, financed with conventional loans and bond financing.
• Title Services – Provide a full range of title services including examinations and certifications and title insurance claims.
• Financing – Negotiate and close construction and permanent financings, refinancings, mezzanine and joint venture structures, securitized loans and synthetic and leveraged leases.
• Real Property Disputes - Advise clients in a wide range of real property-related disputes, including professional negligence lawsuits and disputes involving real property rights and damages, and administrative proceedings. 

Experience

Acquisitions (Buyer's Counsel)

• Acquisition of regional malls, specialty retail centers and franchised restaurants
• Multiple tract assembly for center city entertainment district and office tower
• Purchase of limited service franchised hotels
• Land assemblages for homebuilders
• Site acquisitions for industrial and manufacturing facilities
• Purchase of golf course assets
• Acquisition of cellular tower sites and facilities

Sales (Seller's Counsel)

• Sale of multiple apartment projects across the United States to real estate investment trusts (REITs) and private investors
• Sale of uptown outparcel for development of extended stay hotel with parking arrangements in adjacent deck
• Multiple sales of shopping centers in the Carolinas and Virginia
• Sale of multiple industrial facilities along East Coast

Financings (Borrower's Counsel)

• Securitized financing for hotels
• Financings for shopping centers
• Financings and refinancings for multifamily housing developers and owners
• Lines of credit for land development and home building operations
• Syndication of equity interests for limited service hotels

Development (Developer's Counsel)

• Land acquisition, construction financing and take-out joint ventures for apartment projects in the Carolinas, Virginia and Tennessee
• Equity membership golf and marina communities
• Industrial/warehouse facilities using tax incentive structures
• Development of multiple condominium projects
• Multiple conversions of apartment projects into condominiums

Exchanges (Taxpayer's Counsel)

• Tax-deferred exchanges and acquisitions for institutional land owners
• Deferred tri-party exchanges for industrial parks and build-to-suit buildings

Leases

• 650,000-sq.-ft. lease for bank headquarters office tower (Tenant's Counsel)
• Multi-phase ground leases for residential condominiums, office buildings and high-tech research facilities (Landlord's Counsel)
• Supermarket leases, including 50,000+ sq.-ft. leases and built-to-suit and retrofit-to-suit leases (Tenant's Counsel)
• Leases for 500,000+ sq.-ft. of industrial warehouse space (Landlord's Counsel)
• Leases for new stadium-seating theaters throughout the Southeast (Tenant's Counsel)

News

• Craig Lynch Receives 2013 Citizen Lawyer Award
  April 23, 2013
• Jamie Schwedler Named to Urban Land Institute’s Steering Committee
  April 17, 2013
• ACC Publication Features Article by Dick Unger
  Easements in Today’s World
  April 1, 2013
• Nancy Olah Speaks to NC Chapter of ASLA
  March 27, 2013
• Dick Unger Appointed to Executive Committee of Charleston County Bar Association
  March 20, 2013
• Forty-Four Parker Poe Attorneys Named 2013 NC Super Lawyers
  January 18, 2013
• Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized Among 2013 Legal Elite
  January 15, 2013
• U.S. News Media Group Names Parker Poe Top-Tier Law Firm for 2013
  November 1, 2012
• Four Parker Poe Attorneys Awarded Lawyer of the Year
  September 14, 2012
• 74 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2013
  August 23, 2012
• Chambers USA 2012 Ranks Parker Poe as Leading Law Firm
  June 7, 2012
• Alan Dexter Named Chair of Charlotte Regional Partnership
  May 14, 2012
• Dick Unger Reelected to SC Bar House of Delegates
  May 1, 2012
• Charleston Office Adds Partner and Two Special Counsel
  New Attorneys Join Parker Poe’s Regulatory, Litigation and Real Estate Departments
  March 5, 2012
• Nancy Olah Elected Board Chair of USGBC Charlotte Region Chapter
  February 2, 2012
• Julie Seidenstein Receives Woman Extraordinaire Award
  December 6, 2011
• Get to Know Your Real Estate – Focus on Due Diligence Fundamentals in Tough Times
  November 30, 2011
• U.S. News & World Report Names Parker Poe Top-Tier Law Firm for 2012
  Firm Ranked #1 in 33 Legal Areas
  November 1, 2011
• Craig Lynch Named to National Board of Directors
  July 29, 2011
• CREW Network Features Nancy Olah Article on National Website
  Warm Calls Abound in CREW Network
  June 14, 2011
• Chambers USA 2011 Ranks Parker Poe as Leading Law Firm
  June 10, 2011
• Thirty-Seven Parker Poe Attorneys Named NC Super Lawyers for 2011
  January 25, 2011
• Business North Carolina Names 13 Attorneys to 2011 Legal Elite
  Firm Partner Catharine Biggs Arrowood “Top Vote-Getter” for Antitrust
  January 21, 2011
• Parker Poe Adds Attorney to Charlotte Banking Practice
  September 20, 2010
• U.S.News & World Report Names Parker Poe as a Top-Tier Law Firm
  Firm Ranked #1 in 22 Legal Areas for 2010
  September 15, 2010
• 61 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2011
  August 18, 2010
• Lynch Receives National MS Society's Highest Honor
  August 14, 2010
• Chambers USA 2010 Ranks Parker Poe as Leading Law Firm
  June 11, 2010
• NC Receiving $545 Million for High-Speed Rail
  January 28, 2010
• Parker Poe Names Four New Partners
  January 5, 2010
• Twelve Parker Poe Attorneys Among "Legal Elite" for 2010
  January 4, 2010
• Parker Poe Adds Attorney to Myrtle Beach Office
  September 23, 2009
• Chambers USA 2009 Recognizes Parker Poe As Leading Law Firm
  June 12, 2009
• Parker Poe Attorney First to be LEED Accredited in South Carolina
  July 2, 2008
• Towns Go Green; Credit Tightens
  May 2, 2008
• Parker Poe Grows Resort, Hospitality and Planned Development Practice with the Addition of Richard M. Unger
  March 7, 2008
• Jay R. Hoodenpyl Joins the Parker Poe Real Estate Department
  December 13, 2007
• Limit Your Liability for New-Phase CAM Costs
  April 24, 2007
• Parker Poe Expands Real Estate and Commercial Development Practice
  October 26, 2006
• Robert Mozingo Joins Parker Poe
  June 13, 2006
• Parker Poe Adds Partner to Real Estate and Commercial Development Practice Group In Raleigh
  May 19, 2006
• Parker Poe Bolsters Real Estate and Commercial Development Practice Group With Addition of Simpson Fant To Columbia Office
  February 8, 2006
• Parker Poe Names New Partners
  January 20, 2006
• Farmer & Greene to Discuss Tenants-in-Common
  September 2, 2005
• Five Parker Poe Attorneys and Five Practice Areas have been Included in the Chambers USA: Guide to American's Leading Business Lawyers
  June 3, 2004