Element Uptown named New Property of the Year by the Charlotte Greater Apartment Association

Element Uptown has been named the New Property of the year by The Greater Charlotte Apartment Association (“GCAA”). The award was presented Thursday, November 13, 2014 at the GCAA’s annual Bravo Awards banquet. Element Uptown, developed by Childress Klein, is located in the Third Ward area of Uptown Charlotte adjacent to the Romare Bearden. The 352 unit, 22-story luxury high-rise apartment building includes studio, one- and two-bedroom and penthouse apartments with panoramic views of Romare Bearden Park, BB&T Ballpark and Bank of America Stadium.  It also includes a seventh-floor clubroom, a state of the art fitness center and a resort style outdoor salt-water swimming pool with private cabanas and an outdoor bar.

The New Apartment of the Year award was created to honor greater Charlotte’s most exceptional new apartment community. This is the first year the award has been issued.

“Element Uptown is Charlotte’s first high-rise apartment building and it is a great honor for Element to be the first apartment community to receive this prestigious award,”

said Fred Klein III, Partner at Childress Klein. For more information on this property, please visit http://elementuptown.com.

About Childress Klein
Childress Klein has been in business in the southeastern United States since 1988. Throughout Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, the partners of Childress Klein have been responsible for the development of over 40 million square feet of office, retail and industrial properties. The company is active in markets across the Southeast through offices in Charlotte and Atlanta.

As one of the largest private real estate developers in the Southeast, Childress Klein has experience in a wide range of projects – from small flex buildings to multi-million square foot distribution parks, from small, freestanding retail buildings to large, multi-phase lifestyle centers and from conveniently located suburban office buildings to 1 million+ square-foot, high-rise urban office towers.

With a portfolio in excess of 23 million square feet and more than $1 billion in assets, Childress Klein has the resources to undertake any size project. For more information, please visit www.childressklein.com.

Bravo Awards Banquet
The Bravo Awards Banquet is an annual event held by The Greater Charlotte Apartment Association. The event is always both greatly anticipated and very well attended by the association’s members. Awards Night is significant because it is the one time each year when members can recognize the accomplishments of their industry peers and present awards to the most deserving individuals.

The Greater Charlotte Apartment Association
The Greater Charlotte Apartment Association was founded in 1977 as a trade association for the multifamily rental housing industry. Our members are firms and individuals who develop, own, manage, and provide goods and services to the apartment industry in the Charlotte, NC region. The GCAA focuses its efforts in the following three areas:

• Education - to help our members’ employees increase their professionalism via a heightened understanding of industry practices and legal requirements
• Legislation -  to represent owner interests in the local political arena with regard to issues involving taxes, fees, public services, land development policies, licensing issues, and other industry-related regulations
• Information  - to communicate to our membership the latest developments in the complex and ever-changing field of multifamily rental housing