Oxbow
Project Location
Charlotte, NC
Owner?
Space Craft
Architect?
Shook Kelly
Market
Multifamily Residential
Services
General Contracting
Region
Southeast
Swinerton Office Location
Charlotte, North Carolina
Keywords
Multifamily, Mass Timber- Hybrid
Swinerton is providing general contracting services for the construction of a new six-story mixed-use building in Charlotte’s Optimist Park neighborhood. It is located just three blocks from the Joinery Phase 1 and 2, which Swinerton also constructed.?Oxbow will feature 389 residential apartment units ranging from studio apartments to four-bedroom units. Amenities include terraces, workout rooms, a rooftop deck, a courtyard, bike storage, and secure?parking.?The ground level will incorporate core and shell office and retail space ideal for boutiques, coffee shops, and other neighborhood services.
The project will?feature?sustainable systems, including?high SEER-rated HVAC systems, energy-efficient appliances and rooftop solar panels to power amenity areas. The units will contain?in-unit composting, low-VOC paint, low-energy LED lighting and energy-conserving smart thermostats.?Tenants will have access to shared electric vehicles, ranging from e-bikes and e-scooters to electric cars.
The new structure will be a?two-story concrete podium, which will house below-grade parking, topped with a five-story hybrid structure of stick frame with cross laminated timber slab from Swinerton’s mass timber subsidiary, Timberlab. Approximately 50% of the structure will feature exposed mass timber ceilings using Austrian spruce timber.
