Capital Development & Planning

Facilities Management

The Facilities Management Department's mission is to provide project and process management services that address the facilities needs of the students, staff, and citizens served by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS). The Facilities Management Department addresses these facilities' needs by providing comprehensive and effective short, mid, and long-range facility planning. Specifically, this team is responsible for creating and maintaining the ten-year Capital Needs Assessment (CNA), in addition to management oversight for all real estate transactions, construction projects, and CMS facility design and construction standards. We accomplish this mission by:

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Developing the ten-year Capital Needs Assessment (CNA).
Comprehensive management oversight of CMS' construction projects.
Developing and maintaining industry-leading facility design standards.
Effective management of operational capital projects.
Maintaining short-term facility space planning and programming guidelines.
Estimating the anticipated projected cost of future facilities.
Communicating the current and future capital needs to CMS leadership.
Acquiring land needed to meet current and future capital facility needs.
Continuously maintaining and updating CMS' real estate inventory.

The Facilities Management Department is comprised of Design & Project Management, Construction, and Capital Planning & Real Estate. Please visit each team’s web page for additional information.

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Tim Ivey
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Nicole Portee
Associate Superintendent of Operations

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Easement & Right Of Way

The Real Estate Team is charged with negotiating with public and private entities the acquisition and conveyance of rights-of-way and temporary and permanent easements (stormwater, sidewalk utility, access, construction and maintenance) on behalf of the Board of Education per applicable statutes and Board of Education policies. Easement acquisitions are in support of capital construction projects and other Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' facility needs.

Lease Management

The Real Estate Team is responsible for negotiating and managing lease agreements with public and private entities at the direction of the superintendent in support of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) facility needs. Applicable lease agreements include leases where CMS serves as either landlord or tenant. Tenant leases are signed to support CMS' needs for additional academic, administrative and support spaces. Landlord leases are signed primarily for former school facilities that have been deemed surplus by the Board of Education.

Lease requests may be submitted via this application. For short-term use of CMS-owned facilities, interested parties should contact the CMS Community Use of Schools department.

Surplus Property

The Real Estate Team is responsible for maintaining Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' (CMS) surplus properties list. In addition, the team provides informational updates to the superintendent regarding additional properties that may be considered potential candidates for surplus property declarations by the Board of Education.

Generally, surplus properties are ones in which the Board of Education has deemed:

• No longer suitable for use as an active CMS school
• Will not serve as an administrative facility
• Does not have use for an immediate active CMS facility need

Per applicable statutes, the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners has a right-of-first refusal on every CMS surplus property.

Other considerations for the sale of real estate are statutory requirements that the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (CMBE) must receive fair-market value, as determined by an appraisal, for any property to be conveyed.

Most sales of surplus property are bound by an upset-bid process, as well. Leases cannot be entered into with a duration (including renewals) of ten (10) years or more; all leases are also subject to termination rights.

CMS will not pay any broker commission.

Nothing in any advertisement or process obligates the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (CMBE) to contract with any party on any property. No representations or warranties are made herein.

If CMBE decides to accept an offer, then CMS staff and legal counsel will work with the offeror to enter into a definitive lease or sales contract in compliance with applicable requirements before any decision by CMBE.

If there are any questions related to this process, please send us an email.

CMS does accept unsolicited offers; these may be directed in an actionable form, such as Letter of Intent or Offer, to Surplus Real Estate. Please include PID # when inquiring about surplus properties.

Current available surplus properties:

Former Collinswood Language Academy, 4000 Applegate Road, Charlotte, NC 28209
- PID # 14909432, containing 15.00 acres
Bishop Spaugh Administrative Center, 1901 Herbert Spaugh Ln., Charlotte, NC 28208
- PIDs 06708310, 06708301, 06708437, containing 33.7 acres
Former Tryon Hills School, 2600 Grimes St., Charlotte, NC 28206
- PID 07907618, containing 7.00 acres
Former Lakeview School, 3127 Kalynne St., Charlotte, NC 28208
- PID 06509119, containing 10.74 acres
Highland Creek remnant property, Shelley Ave, Charlotte, NC 28269
- PID 02928109, containing 6.39 acres
Former Plaza Road School, 1000 Anderson St., Charlotte, NC 28205
- PID 09109801, containing 5.33 acres
Independence Blvd., Independence Blvd & Coliseum Dr (no assigned address), Charlotte, NC 28205
- PID 12910179, containing 5.81 acres.