CHARLOTTE-A recent victim of Uptown's popularity is Ron Goodwin's Southern Renaissance Restaurant on North Tryon Street. The owners are trying to sell the land for a major development and Goodwin can't get a long-term lease.

HICKORY, NC-Hickory Metro Partners Inc. is putting up a $7-million structure here on Lenoir-Rhyne Boulevard, just off Interstate 40 and about 50 miles northwest of Downtown Charlotte.

CHARLOTTE-The locally-based, 50-person firm is concentrating on multifamily development here and in the Research Triangle. An 80,250-sf building went for $3.15 million. The second 60,180-sf, two-building structure sold for $4.65 million.

CHARLESTON, WV-The 380-acre park had been promoted as a dynamic addition to Kanawha Valley's economic development efforts and appeared to be off to a good start with three tenants in 1991. Part of the problem is that it's too far from Interstate interchanges.

CHARLOTTE-The Illinois owners are building a 112,000-sf addition to an existing 80,000-sf structure that will be completed in April. A 220,000-sf second expansion will follow, depending on pre-leasing activity.

RALEIGH, NC-The deal ranks among the largest national office property transactions this year, according to locally-based Highwoods Properties Inc. The REIT is contributing $7.5 million of developable land to one of the ventures. GE Capital Real Estate will be funding up to $276 million for the various projects.

CHARLESTON, SC-Bridgeside Co. paid $3.5 million or $1.66 million per acre ($38.26 per sf) for a prime 2.1-acre parcel near Patriot's Point. The four-story, 120,260-sf Bridgeside Center project, planned on the site, is 180 miles south of Downtown Charlotte.

CHARLOTTE-Capitalizing on the local labor pool, the local division of Palo Alto, CA-based Electric Power Research Institute plans to break ground in the first quarter on an addition to its 102,000-sf building from where it has operated for the past 20 years.