Greensboro developer, who has never completed a large community of Huntersville apartments, ranks first in the latest list of the most crime taxpayers of Mecklenburg County.
The Pointe at Caldwell LLC owes the county $ 360 337.88, according to the county list of February 4 on the 100 most delayed taxpayers.
The apartments, outside the NC 115 (Old Statesville Highway), are south of the long -standing unit of Caldwell Station, where homes are up to $ 575,000.
Two and three-storey residential buildings looked ready when the observer visited the site on Thursday, February 20. The sidewalks are also completed and Hidrant is installed near the entrance near the Old Statesville Highway (NC 115).
This photo of the Meclenburg County Tax Site provides an arrass view of a part of the unfinished The Pointe in the Caldwell Station community at Huntersville.
However, the gate locked the drivers at the entrance, and the tall weeds surrounded the sign of the entrance to the monument.
Caldwell Station’s Pointe covers 2.5 acres and has a $ 2024 valued value of $ 12 million, according to Mecklenburg County tax records. The land is estimated at $ 859,900 and the buildings have a total value of $ 11,220,900.
The limited liability company formed by developer Hal Kern III and his HM Kern Corp. to build the apartments dissolved in January 2022, three months after its creation, found search for public records in Charlotte.
Another developer of North Carolina, Zahari Tran, then took over the project, creating and listed as a general manager of a similar LLC, submitted at the State Secretary of the NC State Exhibition.
Weeds grow at the Pointe entrance to Apartments Caldwell Apartments from NC 115 in Huntersville, NC, on Thursday, February 2025.
Tran founded the Diamondback Investment Group LLC, which has developed communities as an apartment-Condo in Wilmington, North Carolina, and Maryland and Pennsylvania, according to its website. Tran lives in Wilmington, according to his biography on the site.
“Most recently, Zack and Diamondback have almost completed construction in Pointe at Caldwell Station, 297-one, Class A multi-family property in Huntersville,” according to BIO on Tran.
The property includes two three-storey multi-family buildings, three two-storey multi-family buildings and one-storey club, according to the tax records of the county.
The county estimates Hardie’s vinyl buildings as “very good”.
Recently, Tran also acquired “three significant plots” in the Greensboro area, resolved “and currently has nearly 1,800 lots under development,” according to the Diamondback website.
Bioto tells him that he founded the investment group in 2016 and brought Kern on board in 2017 “To grow the company”.
Kern’s Bio at LinkedIn lists him as CEO of DiamondBack Investment Group LLC.
Kern and Tro did not respond to messages from the beholder.
The Community Club House stands near the Pointe entrance in Caldwell Station apartments from NC 115 at Huntersville, NC, on Thursday, February 20, 2025.
The developer abandoned the site, says planning director
The Pointe At Caldwell LLC also runs the previous annual list of the best delinquent taxpayers, Queen City News reports in March 2024. Pointe at Caldwell owes $ 326,474.28 at that time, according to the station.
Fire hydrant and sidewalks appear completed in Pointe at the Caldwell Station apartment complex from NC 115 in Huntersville, NC, on Thursday, February 20, 2024.
“The project was abandoned,” Huntersville Brian Richards told The Observer last week.
The development has exceptional zoning disorders issued by the Huntersville planning department, Richards said. “The Marshall District Fire also has exceptional problems,” he said in an email.
A district spokesman directed the observer at the Huntersville Planning Division, saying that the county would “nothing further add” beyond what Richards said to the newspaper.
A fire extinguisher stands as a lone guard in front of a three -storey residential building in the Pointe project at Caldwell Station Off NC 115 in Huntersville, NC, on Thursday, February 2025.
“With the development of the situation, we will coordinate with the city of Huntsville,” said Betsy Abraham, a spokesman for the county.
Mecklenburg County Commissioner Elaine Powell, who represents the Huntersville area in the committee, declined to comment on the project.
The fate of the property remains uncertain
How the governments of the city and the county will deal with the abandoned place was unclear last week.
Vacant three -storey residential buildings Linear streets at Pointe at the Caldwell Station apartment complex from NC 115 at Huntersville on Thursday, February 20, 2025.
In Mecklenburg County, abandoned properties are offered for purchase by auctions for tax removal, according to the tax collector service.
Richards said the city and the county plan to work with the entrepreneur “to clear all existing violations and to complete the project.”
“We have no time line today for happening,” he said. “The city and its departments follow the site.”