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Clay Grubb, CEO of Grubb Properties, and Tim Sittema, managing partner of Crosland Southeast, are central players in Charlotte’s development evolution. Both are leading complicated urban projects in innovative ways.
And each has tackled a range of affordable housing initiatives – both as developers and in their nonprofit work.
Grubb, the CEO of Grubb Properties since 2002, has led the company through several evolutions, the latest taking his company into two of the nation’s most challenging multifamily markets, Manhattan and Berkeley, California. Grubb’s Montford Road development has become a model for recasting suburban office buildings by filling their surface parking lots with Link-branded apartment buildings — delivering a young, creative workforce to employers’ front doors.
Grubb’s book, Creating The Urban Dream: Tackling The Affordable Housing Crisis With Compassion was published in 2020.
Sittema isn’t taking a back seat in the challenge department; he’s leading Crosland Southeast’s Eastland Yards project, which involves a public-private partnership with the city of Charlotte to remake the former 80-acre Eastland mall site.
And just a 10-minute drive up Central Avenue, Crosland Southeast is in the middle of construction of Commonwealth, which includes this combination: 100,000 square feet of retail, a 383-unit apartment building, the adaptive-reuse of two 100-year-old manufacturing plants and a Class-A office building. All on a 12-acre site in the heart of Plaza Midwood.
Sittema is also a leader of the Freedom Communities initiative that is focused on preserving affordable housing and expanding access to quality early education in the Freedom Drive corridor in west Charlotte.
Grubb and Sittema recently joined CBJ’s Two Views monthly podcast interview program to discuss development, affordable housing and how the combination of the two will play an important role in Charlotte’s future.
The Charlotte Business Journal’s Two Views podcast is brought to you by Segra, one of the largest independent fiber network companies in the Eastern United States based right here in Charlotte.
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By Producer: Joseph MullinsClay Grubb, CEO of Grubb Properties, and Tim Sittema, managing partner of Crosland Southeast, are central players in Charlotte’s development evolution. Both are leading complicated urban projects in innovative ways.
And each has tackled a range of affordable housing initiatives – both as developers and in their nonprofit work.
Grubb, the CEO of Grubb Properties since 2002, has led the company through several evolutions, the latest taking his company into two of the nation’s most challenging multifamily markets, Manhattan and Berkeley, California. Grubb’s Montford Road development has become a model for recasting suburban office buildings by filling their surface parking lots with Link-branded apartment buildings — delivering a young, creative workforce to employers’ front doors.
Grubb’s book, Creating The Urban Dream: Tackling The Affordable Housing Crisis With Compassion was published in 2020.
Sittema isn’t taking a back seat in the challenge department; he’s leading Crosland Southeast’s Eastland Yards project, which involves a public-private partnership with the city of Charlotte to remake the former 80-acre Eastland mall site.
And just a 10-minute drive up Central Avenue, Crosland Southeast is in the middle of construction of Commonwealth, which includes this combination: 100,000 square feet of retail, a 383-unit apartment building, the adaptive-reuse of two 100-year-old manufacturing plants and a Class-A office building. All on a 12-acre site in the heart of Plaza Midwood.
Sittema is also a leader of the Freedom Communities initiative that is focused on preserving affordable housing and expanding access to quality early education in the Freedom Drive corridor in west Charlotte.
Grubb and Sittema recently joined CBJ’s Two Views monthly podcast interview program to discuss development, affordable housing and how the combination of the two will play an important role in Charlotte’s future.
The Charlotte Business Journal’s Two Views podcast is brought to you by Segra, one of the largest independent fiber network companies in the Eastern United States based right here in Charlotte.