Commoner

Help me out - how are Philly and Seattle even equal?

On page B6 of today's Wall Street Journal (and on the top half of the "Marketplace" section), are renderings of the new Wachovia Corporate Center. They are part of an article on Charlotte's exceptional downtown office space market. I would link to the article, but my firm provides the WSJ on Lexis Nexis, so I can't retrieve the URL. The title of the article is "Charlotte Rides Out the Woes in Finance" Is copying/pasting (and giving credit) against UP rules?

This thread is an oldie-but-goodie. Though not germane to the latest comment, it piggybacks what monsoon said (in 2004, I guess) about Eastern Airlines building the observation tower. In a cruel twist of irony, in the late-70's, an Eastern crew piloting a DC-9 in bad weather mistook the observation tower for the KCLT control tower and ended up crashing in woods near what is now the police and fire training center off of South Tryon St.

David Wagner, Wagner Murray Architects.

So is the plan to get rid of Concourse E? What is it? 10 years old?

I see your point. I can say with confidence, however, that the Charlotte offices of King & Spalding, Mayer Brown, Cadwalader, Dechert, Dewey LeBoef and Sonnenshein are extremely important to those Wall Street/Chicago/Atlanta/Philly powerhouses. It's unfortunate for all of the good local firms that they were/are late to the game with advanced platforms for deals this large/complex, but you can credit both banks for telling all of the above that if they want to play, they need to grow roots here.

Re. #4: Moore & Van Allen is a local law firm with ~250 attorneys. They don't have prominent satellite offices but they do consistently lead (as in #1 or #2) other firms in rankings published in banking publications in respect of number of leveraged deals completed. They're not necessarily in the top-5 in the size of deals completed, but they have a good thing going and are well known among the true "white shoe" firms in NYC and London. [No - I don't work there...]

I watched, too - Nantz did have a lot of good things to say (he had to say something not about the game). Did you know Nantz is from Charlotte?