Renovated Machine Shop Draws Law Firm and Tech Venture Capitalist as Tenants

CHARLOTTE- The city’s oldest industrial district is attracting professional tenants to older, renovated structures such as the two-story, 40,000-sf Tompkins Machine Shop building currently undergoing a $6 million facelift.

Southern Development Partners has signed Richmond, VA-based McGuire Woods, a law firm dealing with technology clients,to 8,000 sf and Frontier Capital to 3,500 sf. Both are estimated three year-to-five-year leases.

McGuire Woods has 50 lawyers in two uptown offices and expects to staff the south end location with about a dozen lawyers and support personnel. Frontier Capital is a technology venture firm that invests primarily in the Southeast Both tenants are expected to move into the building sometime next year.