St. John Properties opens regional office in Charlotte

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St. John Properties, Inc., a Baltimore-based full-service commercial real estate development and management company which has developed more than 24 million square feet of space with a portfolio valued at over $5 billion, has expanded within North Carolina with a new regional office in Charlotte.

Alaina Kiewit has been named Regional Partner for the new Charlotte office, and will oversee the pursuit of opportunities to fulfill the company’s speculative development strategy. This expansion follows the company’s successful opening of their first North Carolina regional office in Raleigh in fall of 2022. St. John Properties, which now operates 14 offices in 11 states, intends to grow its portfolio to 40 million square feet of space within 15 years.

Kiewit, who joined St. John Properties in 2020, will lead day-to-day operations of the new regional office, with responsibilities including site and property acquisition, development, construction, marketing and leasing, and property management activities. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland, and a Master of Business Administration from Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.

St. John Properties is investigating and searching for strategic sites throughout the greater Charlotte region, including areas in South Carolina, to develop ground-up Class ‘A’ commercial office, retail, and flex/R&D space.

In fall 2023, St. John Properties’ Raleigh office acquired a 30-acre site in Wake Forest, North Carolina and announced its intentions to develop Wake Forest Exchange, a mixed-use business community to be comprised of nearly 165,000 square feet of flex/R&D, single-story commercial office, and retail space. The first phase of development is slated to commence early this year. The full development plan calls for St. John Properties to speculatively develop six buildings including, three of the company’s signature flex/R&D buildings, a single-story commercial office building, and two inline retail buildings which will provide convenient amenities to tenants and employees of the business park, as well as to the surrounding community.