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	<title>Charlotte Real Estate, Development, and Construction News: Mecklenburg Times &#187; Rhiannon Bowman, contributing writer</title>
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		<title>Iredell County months behind on property assessments&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/12/16/iredell-county-months-behind-on-property-assessments-nearly-800-parcels-have-zero-assessed-value/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhiannon Bowman, contributing writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mecklenburg County wasn't the only county in the Charlotte area that conducted a property revaluation this year.
Iredell County did, too. And just like in Mecklenburg County, plenty of property owners appealed their adjusted values.]]></description>
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		<title>What they wanted to be&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/12/07/what-they-wanted-to-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhiannon Bowman, contributing writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony Miller Owner, Miller Architecture Tony Miller grew up on a dairy farm in Laurel Hill, N.C., but he never intended to go into the family business. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t want to work that hard or get up that early, he said. He said he discovered an interest in complicated three-dimensional problems and puzzles early on and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental concerns surface for Langtree project&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/12/02/environmental-concerns-surface-for-langtree-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhiannon Bowman, contributing writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Langtree at the Lake&#8217;s developers say they&#8217;re focused on not just adhering to &#8212; but surpassing &#8212; environmental regulations as site work on the first phase of their nearly 400-acre project comes to a close. In the meantime, environmentalists are keeping a close eye on the project, watching for signs of erosion into Lake Norman. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frozen yogurt purveyors look for sweetest locations&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/07/08/frozen-yogurt-purveyors-look-for-sweetest-locations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhiannon Bowman, contributing writer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Luke Tashie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Red Mango]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trent Barnes, a partner in YoMango, the franchisee of the Texas-based Red Mango chain, has one frozen yogurt shop on Sam Furr Road in Huntersville. He had hoped to expand into Charlotte, but most of the prime locations have been snapped up, he said, adding that his next shop will open in Davidson. Barnes said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unhappy trails&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/06/21/unhappy-trails/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhiannon Bowman, contributing writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2002, Mount Holly citizens began meeting to work on ways to revitalize their downtown district. Lee Beatty, a family physician and a community leader, said people were wondering how to connect the town to the Catawba River, which is less than four-tenths of a mile from downtown Mount Holly. &#8220;There&#8217;s hardly any town that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A setback for Mountain Island Village&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/04/12/a-setback-for-mountain-island-village/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhiannon Bowman, contributing writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mountain Island Village has taken another hit. One of the most popular tenants of the 8-year-old, 14-acre mixed-use development in northwest Charlotte has closed without warning, boarding up one side of the building and removing signs overnight. &#8220;Our last day was Super Bowl Sunday,&#8221; Adam Hendrickson, district manager for Vinnie&#8217;s Raw Bar, said. &#8220;We made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yards gone wild&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/03/29/yards-gone-wild/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhiannon Bowman, contributing writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret that times are tough in the housing market. Therefore, it shouldn&#8217;t be a surprise that some people feel stuck in their current homes as potential buyers circle, scanning neighborhoods for deals. However, just because the Great Recession hasn&#8217;t quite released its talons from the local real estate market that doesn&#8217;t mean homeowners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easement contracts allow for conservation that&#8217;s customizable for owners&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/03/08/easement-contracts-allow-for-customized-conservation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhiannon Bowman, contributing writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kay Killian, an assistant district attorney in Lincoln County, first became interested in protecting it from future development in the mid-1990s when she served on the Catawba Lands Conservancy&#8217;s board of directors. As an only child in a family that owns several hundred acres of land in Lincoln and Gaston counties, she knew she had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green grows better on some builders than others in Charlotte&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/02/24/green-grows-better-on-some-builders-than-others-in-charlotte/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhiannon Bowman, contributing writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Holdridge and Michael McMillan have known each other for nearly a decade, but they only started working together recently. After running into each other repeatedly at green-building seminars and continuing-education presentations, they decided to stop fighting Charlotte&#8217;s old guard, which likes to do things the way they&#8217;ve always been done, and band together, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1 block, 3 urgent-care facilities, a lot of head-scratching&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/02/15/1-block-3-urgent-care-facilities-a-lot-of-head-scratching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhiannon Bowman, contributing writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mount Holly-Huntersville Road, in the Mountain Island Lake community, is about to get its third urgent-care center, CLiC Immediate Care. And all three of them are within spitting distance of one other. The proximity of the three centers has some locals, like Sally Mesibov, joking that the best place in town to break a bone [...]]]></description>
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