Levine Center for the Arts

Format
Brief

City
Charlotte

State/Province
NC

Country
USA

Metro Area
Charlotte

Project Type
Mixed Use

Location Type
Central Business District

Land Uses
Cultural Use
Museum
Office
Open space
Performance Space
Plaza
Restaurant
Retail
Underground Parking

Keywords
Corporate headquarters
Diverse stakeholders
LEED-CS Platinum certified
Sustainable development
ULI Awards for Excellence 2012 Global Winner

Site Size
4.7 acres
acres hectares

Date Started
2007

Date Opened
2009

A brief is a short version of a case study.

Comprised of six buildings on 4.67 acres (1.89 ha) in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina, the Levine Center for the Arts brings a cultural center to a growing central business district. The mixed use project includes three museums, a theater, an auditorium, 1,558,000 square feet (144,743 m2) of office space in Duke Energy’s corporate headquarters, and 32,035 square feet (2,976 m2) of ground-level retail space. This development represents a significant investment in Charlotte’s central business district and its public cultural offerings.

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Developer
Childress Klein Properties
Charlotte, NC

Owners
Wells Fargo & Co.
San Francisco, CA

Architect
tvsdesign
Atlanta, GA

Machado and Silvetti Associates
Boston, MA

Mario Botta
Mendrisio, Switzerland

The Freelon Group
Durham, NC

Landscape Architect/Master Planner
HGOR Planners and Landscape Architects
Atlanta, GA

Principal Author
Shai Karp

ULI Awards for Excellence 2012 Global Winner

Note: This Case Study Brief draws extensively on information and text from the Levine Center for the Arts 2012 submission to the ULI Global Awards for Excellence program.