Kane Realty Corporation

Kane Realty Corporation is a Raleigh developer founded in 1978 and best known for North Hills, the Midtown Raleigh district it has spent decades building into a dense mix of apartments, offices, and retail. The company handles development, leasing, and management, and has become a defining force in how Raleigh has grown vertically outside its traditional downtown. Kane is now building The Strand, a 20-story, 362-unit mixed-use tower within its roughly $1 billion North Hills Innovation District, in partnership with Mitsui Fudosan America. The firm’s live-work-play formula has become a template that Sun Belt developers across the region have tried to copy.

Kane Realty Corporation is a fully integrated commercial real estate company headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, founded in 1978 when John Kane assembled investors to reinvigorate a shopping center in Greenville, NC. The firm handles development, construction management, leasing, marketing, and property management across office, retail, multi-family, and mixed-use properties.

Its signature work is North Hills, the mixed-use district now known as Raleigh’s Midtown, which grew from the 2003 demolition of the old North Hills Mall into a multi-block district and, more recently, the North Hills Innovation District. Recent and ongoing projects include The Eastern, a 36-story tower that is Raleigh’s tallest residential building; The Strand, a 20-story mixed-use tower; and Tributary, a 332-unit residential community. In downtown Raleigh, Kane developed The Dillon and the Smoky Hollow district, and the company has also built out of state with Meeting Street Lofts in Charleston, South Carolina.

Kane Realty frames its work around stated values of character, excellence, and long-term relationships, and it runs Midtown Events programming such as the Midtown Farmers’ Market at North Hills.