Two listings, same building, same month. Unit 6 at 201 Grandin Road tells a buyer that a deeded, assigned parking space comes with the home. Unit 5, one door down, tells a buyer that a deeded parking space is available for purchase. Both are marketed under the same name, the same restored 1927 church, the same "boutique collection of 15 residences." Read the fine print and they are not the same transaction.
That gap is not a typo. It is the clearest signal that The Arches Charlotte is not one uniform product dressed up in stained glass. It is two different kinds of real estate stacked at one address, and knowing which one you are buying determines what you should expect to pay, what you are actually getting, and what you need to ask before you write an offer.
Same Address, Two Very Different Deeds
The Arches sits at 201 and 203 Grandin Road in Wesley Heights, a boutique conversion of a Romanesque Revival church originally designed in the 1920s by architect Louis Asbury. Whitestone Capital, led by president Mark Bolous, reached an agreement with the church's bishop to take on the almost 100-year-old building and turn it into townhome-style condos. That much is the story every buyer hears.
What the marketing folds together, quietly, is that not all 15 units sit inside that original sanctuary. Unit 1 at 203 Grandin Road was constructed in 2023 as part of what listing documentation calls a "thoughtfully integrated expansion." It is a one-level, ADA-accessible, roughly 1,077-square-foot condo with a modern layout and a private entrance. It shares the address, the HOA, and the sales team. It does not share the stained glass or the exposed wood ceilings that define the units carved out of the actual church structure.
Compare that to a unit like the one sold in 2024 at 201 Grandin Road, Unit 11, which closed at $538,500 and was marketed specifically for its original stained-glass windows and original wood vaulted ceiling. That's the church. Unit 1 is the addition next to it. Both are "The Arches." Only one is the building people drive past and photograph.
If the reason you want a home here is the architecture, the specific unit number matters more than the square footage or the price. Ask directly whether a unit sits within the original sanctuary footprint or within the newer construction, and ask for confirmation of which original features, if any, survive in that specific residence.
The Parking Line Buyers Skip Past
Parking at The Arches is not standardized, and the listings say so plainly if you read past the first paragraph.
| Unit | Address | Listed Size | Parking, as written in the listing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unit 1 | 203 Grandin Rd | ~1,077 sq ft | Deeded space "may be available for purchase and/or negotiated separately, subject to availability" |
| Unit 5 | 201 Grandin Rd | 1,738 sq ft | "Deeded parking space available for purchase" |
| Unit 6 | 201 Grandin Rd | 1,419 to 1,474 sq ft, depending on source | "Assigned on-site parking space deeded with the unit" |
| Unit 9 | 201 Grandin Rd | 1,330 sq ft | "Deeded parking space available for purchase" |
Three different phrasings, three different financial realities. One buyer's contract includes a parking space at no extra line item. Another buyer negotiates a separate purchase for the same amenity. A third is told availability isn't guaranteed at all. In a downtown-adjacent neighborhood where street parking exists but a deeded space carries real resale value, this is not a small detail to discover after you're under contract. It is a line to negotiate before you write the offer, not after.
The practical move: before you submit, ask your agent to confirm in writing whether the specific unit includes a deeded space, and if not, what the separate purchase price is and whether it is negotiable as part of the deal. Do not assume parity with the unit you saw online three doors down.
What the Two-Year Price Trail Says
Closed sales from 2024 put two-bedroom units in this building at $455,000 (Unit 12) and $538,500 (Unit 11). As of 2026, comparably sized two-bedroom listings at 201 Grandin Road have ranged from $499,000 to $569,000, depending on the unit and how long it has sat.
That range tells a story the median alone would not. Unit 6 was listed on April 24, 2026 at $569,000. By August, the same unit showed 101 days on market, with the price reflected at $499,000 on aggregator sites, a $70,000 reduction from where it started. For a 15-unit boutique building marketed as a rare, limited opportunity, more than three months on market for a single unit is longer than the "scarce inventory" framing would suggest.
That gap between story and pace matters for two kinds of buyers. If you're purchasing, a unit approaching or past 90 days on market is a unit where the listing price has already proven too optimistic once, and there is room to negotiate below list, particularly on units without the deeded parking included. If you already own here and are weighing a future sale, the lesson cuts the other way: initial list price in a small, architecturally distinct building should be tested against how long comparable units have actually taken to sell, not just what a similar unit sold for a year or two earlier.
The Square Footage Doesn't Always Match Itself
One more discrepancy worth flagging before you get to inspection. Unit 6 is described as 1,419 square feet in one listing source and 1,474 square feet in another, while the Mecklenburg County tax record for the same parcel lists 1,650 total finished square feet. None of these are necessarily wrong. Converting a church sanctuary into 11 individually shaped townhomes means, as the property's own listing team has put it, that each unit has its own nuances because you're fitting homes into a structure that was never designed as separate residences. Ceiling heights, mezzanine space, and how a loft area gets counted can all shift the number depending on who is measuring and for what purpose.
North Carolina MLS rules require listing square footage to match tax records, and if it doesn't, the seller has to produce a sketch and calculation showing how the number was reached. In a standard subdivision, that rule rarely comes into play because units are cookie-cutter and county records catch up quickly. In a church conversion where every unit is genuinely different, it is exactly the kind of paperwork worth requesting before closing, not after you've measured the primary bedroom yourself and found it smaller than the listing implied.
The Paperwork Isn't Identical Either
Because some units at The Arches are still first-time sales of residences that have never been lived in, and others, like Units 11 and 12, are resales that have already changed hands once, the disclosure documents a buyer receives are not the same across the building. North Carolina's Residential Property Disclosure Act generally requires a seller to complete the Residential Property and Owners' Association Disclosure Statement before a buyer makes an offer, and a buyer who doesn't receive it on time gets a three-day right to cancel the contract. First sales of never-inhabited units carry narrower disclosure obligations than resales of a unit someone has actually occupied.
For a building with this much unit-to-unit variation already, that difference is worth surfacing early. Ask whether the specific unit you're considering is a first sale or a resale, and confirm which disclosure package applies. The named association handling all of this is The Arches HOA, Inc., and any HOA financials, reserve study, or rules you request should come through that entity regardless of which unit you're buying.
A Few Questions Worth Asking Directly
Does every unit at The Arches have the original stained glass and wood ceilings? No. Units built within the original 1927 sanctuary, like Units 5, 6, 9, 11, and 12, carry those preserved features. Unit 1 at 203 Grandin Road, completed in 2023 as part of the building's expansion, is new construction with a modern layout and does not include the original church elements.
Is parking included in the price? Not consistently. Some listings state a deeded space comes with the unit. Others state it is available for separate purchase, and at least one lists it as negotiable and subject to availability. Confirm this in writing for the specific unit before you make an offer.
Why is the square footage different depending on where I look? Because the building was converted from a single sanctuary into individually shaped homes, some units show different figures between the MLS listing and the county tax record. If the numbers disagree, you're entitled to ask for the sketch and calculation that explains the difference.
The Arches is a genuinely rare building in Charlotte, and that part of the story is true. But rare doesn't mean uniform, and a buyer who treats all 15 units as interchangeable is going to be surprised by a parking bill, a square footage dispute, or a disclosure form that looks different from what a neighbor received. Knowing which product you're actually buying, before you write the offer, is the difference between a smooth closing and a renegotiation.
If you're looking at a specific unit here and want someone to pull the actual disclosure package, confirm the parking status in writing, and walk the real square footage with you before you commit, connect with our team.