Using video marketing for real estate

  The camera and YouTube show more than cute kittens pawing on a piano. Media Bonsai, a two person company, wraps its video lens around the stories of business. “A lot of times the story that a company has been trying to tell can’t always get it across,” said Scott Harrington, Media Bonsai co-creator. “People [...]

The Long Term Deal

An international network and a virtual vision captured Michelle Vernon’s attention in college. Fueled with only ambition, she realized a plan to help manufacturers in Charlotte with business overseas. Michelle first focused on French when she created Choice Translating. In the professional firm’s seventeen years, it has expanded as a language services provider to help [...]

Uptown Insurance – An Allstate Success Story

Awards and plaques cover the walls of J.C and Bianca Alvarado’s office at Uptown Insurance. Behind the shining sheath of their achievements is the story of sacrifice, challenge and love. The husband and wife team have owned their Allstate office at Tryon Plaza since 2007. Their eager determination to set themselves apart in the business [...]

Tech savvy biz lands historic digs

Part of a series of skyscrapers acclaimed long ago as forming “the Wall Street of the South,”1 Tryon Plaza still boasts of the creative entrepreneurial spirit that inspired its founding.  A variety of businesses are time and again finding themselves behind these handsomely clad stone facades.  We met up with new occupant, Chris Harkey, President of [...]

Rappelling in Uptown!

An owner of an office condominium unit at Tryon Plaza, Shane McDevitt,  is really living over the edge for a good cause! Friends and family, This Saturday (Oct 29th) at 11:50am, I will be rappelling 35 stories down The VUE high-rise in Uptown Charlotte to help raise money for Special Olympics North Carolina. Over the [...]

Discovered: A bike friendly and historic building

James Good, a CPA who owns office space at Tryon Plaza, is passionate about bicycling.  James chose to buy an office at Tryon Space knowing he would have access to a full gym complete with locker rooms and showers (take a video tour) allowing him to bike to work. In addition to working in an [...]