Real Estate

REAL ESTATE Hot Listings

In addition to desirable locations and curb appeal, these properties have open floor plans and flexible living spaces designed to host. —Taylor Bowler

2823 COLONY RD. $1,098,000 MYERS PARK This Cape Cod-style home sits on a one-acre lot in the Rockbrook neighborhood, across from The Myers Park school campus. The ve-bedroom house has a walk-out basement and spacious patio for entertaining. 5 BD, 4 BA, 4,759 sq. .,

Dickens Mitchener, dickensmitchener.com

2540 VAIL AVE. $669,000 ELIZABETH Natural light oods this three-story duplex with three sides of windows. The gourmet kitchen has a gas range, farm sink, and beverage center, plus a large eatin island. 3 BD, 3.5 BA, 2,064 sq. .,

The McDevitt Agency, themcdevittagency.com

2827 FLORIDA AVE. $999,500 PLAZA MIDWOOD This new build brims with high-end nishes like an enormous kitchen island, a butler’s pantry with a wine fridge, and designer lighting from Restoration Hardware. 4 BD, 3.5 BA, 3,912 sq. .,

Savvy + Co., savvyandcompany.com

901 COLVILLE RD. $2,335,000 EASTOVER This recently updated custom build has a gourmet kitchen and exible spaces to relax or entertain guests. The backyard has a pool, koi pond with waterfall, pergola, and outdoor kitchen and replace. 5 BD, 5.5 BA, 5,770 sq. .,

Cottingham Chalk, cottinghamchalk.com

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by the overwhelming demand. We are trying to restock as fast as we can.”

As of early June, Wooten estimates that 704 Shop has sold about 6,000 masks. “We want to do what we can with our platform to help the community,” he says. “That’s what’s built us.”

Wooten, 38, is a Charlotte native and Vance High School graduate who handles most of 704 Shop’s product design, social media, and website. He met Moxley and Shephard at UNCC— Moxley while apartment hunting, Shephard while refereeing intramural sports. The three had teamed up before on a business idea, a recording studio venture that was going nowhere.

Then, in 2006, Wooten landed a job in Pittsburgh as a DJ and club manager. There, he noticed the city’s loyalty to local apparel brands. He wondered whether something like it might work in Charlotte. “I started to see what hometown pride was like [there],” he says. The trio launched the 704 Shop online in late 2013.

Business was slow for the rst two years. Then local muralist Matt Moore wore a 704 hat in front of his mural on 5th Street. A few media outlets picked it up, and more customers found them. As online sales grew, they rolled out a series of pop-up markets across the city, including Front Porch Sundays in South End and the Southern Christmas Show. Queen City, CLT, 704, and other Charlotte-themed T-shirts, hats, and socks were all so popular that they eventually outgrew the popup circuit. In 2015, Wooten came home to run the business full-time.

The COVID-19 T-shirt sale wasn’t the rst fundraiser for 704 Shop. Wooten and his team raised $50,000 to help cover medical costs for the victims of the UNCC shooting on April 30, 2019, which le students Riley Howell and Reid Parlier dead and four injured. “If we’re doing good,” Wooten says, “it’ll come back to us in the long run.”

VIRGINIA BROWN is a native Charlottean and full-time writer whose work appears in AAA Go magazine, Our State, BBC News Magazine, among others. Reach her at vbwrites.com.