However, there are concerns that this sector is building too many higher-priced apartments.
In Charlotte, minorities have made up the majority of its 752,000 population since 2011, and women account for more than half. And there, Balfour Beatty Construction is part of a construction team that this month was selected to build a 146,000-square-foot, 400-bed freshman residential hall, which that team will start in December on the South Village area of the University of North Carolina-Charlotte’s campus.
But it will take more than two years to achieve, and not without navigating some road bumps.
Its Northern California group has 13 projects in play.
"Man of La Mancha" composer takes to the airwaves to promote his “green village,” which has been in the works for more than two decades.