Three office buildings on Eastwood Road recently changed hands for a combined $4.9 million. Clustered at the corner of Eastwood Road and Charter Drive, the two-story brick buildings at 428, 430 and 432 Eastwood Road were sold in two separate transactions, according to deeds recorded Monday.  Bowman Jones Properties LLC has owned the 1.26-acre site since 2001, ac ...

The owners of The Reel Cafe have purchased the building that has housed the longtime downtown restaurant and bar in a $3.5 million transaction. The sale, which closed Tuesday, included The Reel Cafe building at 100 S. Front St. and an adjacent building at 12 Dock St., which houses Wilmington Distillery on its first floor. Both businesses are expected to continue operati ...

Wilmington’s second 7 Brew coffee stand is in the works along a developing stretch of Market Street. Franchisee Delight Restaurant Group submitted plans to the city of Wilmington last week for a proposed 534-square-foot coffee stand with two drive-thru lanes at 4607 Market St. The city’s first 7 Brew location is expected to open on South College Road this fa ...

When it came to building Center Point, David Swain knew he wanted the project to stand out.   “We’re trying to do something very different from just an apartment complex,” he said during a recent tour of Center Point, which is under construction near the intersection of Military Cutoff and Eastwood roads in Wilmington. “And this wi ...

The owners of The Yard, a Wilmington-area industrial park, announced a refinancing of the project this week.  The refinancing follows the stabilization of the first phase of the 80-acre industrial park and sets the stage for phase two, said Daniel Schor, principal and chief business development officer with industrial park owner Treeline Companies. The first phase ...

A new 11,560-square-foot flex building in Shallotte has been fully leased, with a second flex-space building nearby in the works. The first building secured a lease-up ahead of the issuance of a certificate of occupancy – a sign of the demand for commercial space in the area, said Mike Musselwhite, a vice president and commercial broker with Sun Coast Partners Com ...

BL Companies, an employee-owned, multidisciplinary architecture, engineering, environmental and land surveying firm, has officially opened its new Wilmington office, according to a news release. The new location, which is about eight miles east of the previous office on Castle Street near downtown, "is a significantly larger space that will accommodate new hires as ...

The Gourmet Market, a longtime market and convenience store in downtown Wilmington, reopened this week in a larger storefront on North Front Street. For two decades, the business operated at 27 N. Front St. before moving out of the space in early March, according to Donna Stamm, the market’s general manager. The Gourmet Market reopened Tuesday at 143 N. Front St., ...

Signature Autosports came close to doubling its Wilmington footprint earlier this year when it moved into a nearly 30,000-square-foot building on South 13th Street. The business had outgrown its former 16,000-square-foot Castle Hayne space when owner Aaron Richardet saw a for-sale sign at 1301 S. 13th St. In the space, which previously housed sister companies Coastal Mi ...

Coastal Beverage Company plans to expand its Pender Commerce Park facility, with more than 100,000 square feet of new warehouse space. The proposed 104,000-square-foot expansion is scheduled to go before Pender County’s Technical Review Committee on Wednesday. In addition to growing the building to nearly 258,000 square feet – the size of nearly 4.5 football ...