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Growing pains, Business owners change roles as operations grow (access required)

By dmc-admin
Published: November 17,2009

By Austin Light CHARLOTTE — The day Ilan Paltrow realized his business had grown too big for his comfort was the day he walked into one of his four bike shops and an employee asked if she could help him. “It was very frustrating because I was expanding, doing more work, but making less money,” [...]


Property tainted with asbestos, chemicals–Arlington developer claims company sold tainted land (access required)

By dmc-admin
Published: October 16,2009

By Amy Burroughs CHARLOTTE _ Metropolitan Group, Inc., developer of the pink-glass Arlington condos in South End, has filed a lawsuit against a Milwaukee-based manufacturer alleging that it knowingly sold property tainted with asbestos, hazardous chemicals and other toxic substances. According to Metropolitan’s complaint, the company had to pay $428,000 to clean up hazardous materials [...]