CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA — Concord, California-based Swinerton has started the construction of Oxbow, a $97.8 million, mixed-use commercial plus multifamily development with heavy mass timber elements in Charlotte, North Carolina. Swinerton is building the project for Space Craft, a Charlotte-based firm, in the city’s Mill District. This is the third time the companies have partnered, with its most recent project being Joinery in the same area. Once complete, Oxbow will contain six floors with nearly 14,300 square feet of commercial space. For residents, it holds 389 rentals that range from studio apartments to four-bedroom units. …The structure will also feature heavy mass timber use — plans call for a two-story concrete podium, which will house below-grade parking, topped with a five-story hybrid structure of stick frame with cross laminated timber slab from Swinerton’s mass timber subsidiary, Timberlab. Approximately 50% of the structure will feature exposed mass timber ceilings.