The $200 million plan to add significant new development to Birkdale Village has received a critical approval. The Charlotte Business Journal reports Jamestown received an okay from the Huntersville Board of Commissioners for a rezoning that will allow them to develop a 125-room hotel, 150 multifamily units, 26,715 square feet of retail space and a new, seven-story office building at the center.

Birkdale Village currently includes around 250,000 square feet of retail space, 50,000 square feet of office space and 320 apartments.

The new office building at Birkdale Village will total 175,000 square feet, including around 13,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. The six-story apartment building is targeted for the site of the existing Dick’s Sporting Goods store. The seven-story hotel would be near Birkdale Village’s entrance off Sam Furr Road.

Competition for quality football players often often has more to do with facilities and amenities than season records or a schools legacy. Georgia Tech knows that and is modernizing its historic football stadium.

Georgia Tech officials recently broke ground on the Thomas A. Fanning Student-Athlete Performance Center, a project designed by The S/L/A/M Collaborative and to be built by DPR Construction, both Atlanta-based companies. 

The 100,000-square-foot expansion is happening at the northeast corner of the century-old stadium—now called Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field.

The performance center will house areas for athlete strength and conditioning, sports medicine, nutrition, academic support, and Tech athletics’ Total Person Program. Other facets will include expanded space specifically for Georgia Tech football, to include a football-only players’ lounge, meeting spaces, and strength-and-conditioning facilities. The Fanning Center will also be equipped with Tech’s first sports science lab, which uses pro-model motion tracking to analyze student-athletes’ performance data.

Toyota announced a new investment of nearly $8 billion that will add approximately 3,000 jobs at Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina (TBMNC) in Liberty, NC. This brings total investment to approximately $13.9 billion and job creation to more than 5,000.

This investment adds capacity to support battery electric vehicles (BEV’s) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV’s).

In 2021, Toyota, in partnership with Toyota Tsusho, announced the new Liberty location with an initial investment of $1.29 billion for battery production and the creation of 1,750 new jobs. With today’s announcement, Toyota North Carolina solidifies its position as the company’s epicenter of lithium-ion battery production in North America. Overall, the campus will boast seven million square feet, equating to 121 football fields of battery production.