This luxury condo development in a Charlotte suburb features Control4 smart home solutions.
MYERS PARK IS ONE OF Charlotte, North Carolina’s oldest suburbs, conveniently situated just a couple of miles from the city’s Uptown business district, and has a range of recreational facilities, shops, bars and restaurants.
Developer Jim Gross acquired a compact corner plot, originally the site of a now demolished university dormitory, in 2017. Jim turned the site into 24 luxury, full-floor condominiums capable of fetching almost $1.5 million in many cases. The condos, which range in size from 2,500 to 3,100 square feet (plus terraces), are spread across four five-story and one four-story steel-and-concrete buildings, all linked by a delightful tree-lined, lamplit courtyard that meanders its way through the complex.
Jim bought the site without knowing precisely what to build on it. He said, “I started pushing around pencil and paper and figured out it had to be condominiums. I came up with the idea of doing freestanding building stacks over the top of an underground garage. Each condo would have its own individual elevator entrance from the garage and the four building stacks would be separated by fire escapes so every resident would have their own floor with windows on all four sides.”
Beyond the physical design, smart tech is an essential part of what makes Opus Myers Park so luxurious. Early in the project, Jim brought in Home Technology Solutions (HTS), a Control4 Smart Home Professional he’d worked with on several previous developments, to oversee the extensive installation.
“Every condo has at least five automated lights as standard, which can be set up however the owner wants and people often opt to add more. All the bedrooms and common rooms are centrally wired for TV and there are four zones of audio with high-end Episode speakers. Everything can be controlled using the Control4 Tabletop Touchscreens in your condo, or from a smartphone.” said Mike Fitton, President of HTS.
As well as automated lighting and entertainment, thermostats are also connected to the systems, meaning people can easily control their condo’s temperature, even when they’re not there. And every condo has high-speed Wi-Fi built in.
