Charlotte’s Uptown and South End have been separated by an interstate and a rail corridor for as long as either has existed as a submarket. Queensbridge Collective is a roughly $700 million attempt to sew them together at South Tryon and Morehead. Its 42-story residential tower topped out in 2026 as the second-tallest residential building in the Carolinas. The office tower next to it is the part people are actually watching.
Project Scope
Two towers, one podium. The residential building carries 409 apartments across 42 stories. The office tower runs 35 stories and 600,000 square feet, with roughly 30,000 square feet of retail and 1,600 structured parking spaces underneath both. Clark Construction Group is the general contractor. Goettsch Partners is the design architect, with LS3P as a design partner, and New Hudson Facades fabricated the unitized curtain wall, the Pennsylvania manufacturer that also clad several of the Hudson Yards towers. Thomas Concrete supplied ready-mix for the concrete superstructures. Office delivery is targeted for the end of 2027. Retail leasing is already moving: Denver’s Guard and Grace signed for the podium.
Why It Matters
A 600,000-square-foot speculative office tower is not a normal thing to be building in 2026. National office starts collapsed after 2023 and haven’t come back, and most developers who had a tower in design quietly moved it to residential or shelved it. Riverside kept going, which tells you something about how it reads Charlotte specifically rather than the office market generally. The residential tower is the hedge, and topping it out first means the project has revenue coming online well before the office lease-up begins.
Riverside is a Chicago firm best known for 110 North Wacker and Salesforce Tower Chicago. Queensbridge is its major Southeast bet, and it’s structured the way Chicago developers structure things: two products, one site, staged delivery. If Charlotte’s banking and fintech tenants absorb the office space at the rents underwritten, the project resets what a spec tower can command in a non-gateway market. If they don’t, it’s a very tall reminder of why nobody else tried.
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Project Team & Details
| Developer | Riverside Investment & Development with Woodfield Development |
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| Owner / Client | Riverside Investment & Development / Woodfield Development JV |
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| Architect | Goettsch Partners (design) with LS3P |
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| Consultants | New Hudson Facades (Curtain Wall) |
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| General Contractor | Clark Construction Group |
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| Major Subcontractors | New Hudson Facades (Unitized Curtain Wall)
Thomas Concrete (Ready-Mix Concrete) |
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| Status | Under Construction |
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| Delivery Method | Design-Bid-Build |
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| Funding Source | Private |
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