Josh Lonon

Commercial Real Estate

Economic Development and Incentives

Real Estate Acquisition and Development

Real Estate Finance

Real Estate Leasing

Corporate

Josh Lonon regularly serves as lead counsel for national and regional companies, both public and private, local and statewide developers, and higher education institutions and other non-profits, in the acquisition, development, financing, sale, and leasing of commercial properties. Such properties are often industrial and manufacturing facilities and complexes and large multi-family, office, retail, and mixed used developments.

Josh also advises clients on, and regularly negotiates with and appears before municipal bodies to obtain, economic development tax incentives. These include fee-in-lieu of taxes arrangements, infrastructure tax credits, multi-county industrial and business park inclusions, tax abatements and rehabilitation tax credits for renovation of abandoned textile and historic properties. He also has experience with title insurance companies both as outside and inside counsel, giving him keen insight into solving complex title and title insurance issues.

Josh has served as Chair of the South Carolina Bar Real Estate Practices Section and as editor of the 2d edition of the South Carolina Commercial Real Estate Handbook. He is a former executive board member of the Upstate, South Carolina chapter of the Urban Land Institute and has chaired and held other leadership positions on several local government boards non-profits. He is a graduate of the South Carolina Bar Leadership Academy, Leadership Spartanburg, is a Regional Fellow of the Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System and has been included in the Pro Bono Honor Roll by the South Carolina Supreme Court for multiple years.

Josh is recognized by Chambers USA, Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers, SC Biz Magazine’s Real Estate Power List and Greenville Business Magazine’s Legal Elite of the Upstate, and is a recipient of the South Carolina Lawyers Weekly Leadership in Law Award.

South Carolina Bar, 2003

United Stated District Court, District of South Carolina, 2004

United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 2004

Palmetto Land Title Association Board, Member (2022)

South Carolina Bar, Chair, Real Estate Practices Section (2019-2020); South Carolina Bar

Urban Land Institute Upstate South Carolina Executive Committee, Member (2018-Present); Executive Committee (2019-Present)

City of Spartanburg Board of Architectural Design and Historic Review, Member (2018-Present)

American Bar Association, Member, Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law

Spartanburg County Bar Association, Member, Register of Deeds Committee (2010-2011)

Young Lawyers Division, Fifth Circuit Representative (2005); Seventh Circuit Representative (2006); ABA Delegate (2004, 2005)

Represented Canada-based publicly traded company as local counsel in multi-jurisdictional closing of $110,000,000 credit facility

Represented private developer in the land use and tax incentive approvals and development of est. $100,000,000 mixed-use development in South Carolina

Represented national commercial developer as outside general counsel for acquisition, financing and development of industrial, office, multi-family, self-storage, and hotel developments across the U.S.

Represented Germany-based international auto parts manufacturer in negotiation, approval and extension of tax incentives for approx. $47,000,000 expansion of South Carolina manufacturing facility

Represented privately-held meat-packing company in closing of New Markets Tax Credit financing for approx. $20,000,000 plant expansion

Represented private developer in closing of New Markets Tax Credit financing for construction and rehabilitation of historic property for approx. $20,000,000 mixed-use development

Represented South Carolina-based international chemical manufacturing company in acquisition, financing, tax incentives and leasing of approx. $23,000,000 industrial warehouse facility

Represented Canada-based publicly traded company as local counsel in disposition of numerous South Carolina properties

Represented international tool manufacturing company in acquisition and negotiation of tax incentives for approx. $12,000,000 South Carolina warehouse facility

Represented international packaging manufacturer in negotiation of tax incentives allowing for approx. $16,000,000 expansion of its South Carolina manufacturing facility

Represented land trust in the conservation of hundreds of acres of property in the mountains of Upstate South Carolina