By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: August 19,2011
It could be one of the greatest real estate bargains in Charlotte history: 33,347 square feet of space on seven acres for only $1 a year in rent. That proposal for Tryon Hills Pre-K Center in north Charlotte is among others that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is entertaining for nearly a dozen shuttered buildings that CMS wants [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: July 26,2011
Campus Crest Communities today said it will build two student-housing developments totaling $51.6 million at Auburn University in Alabama and the University of Maine. The Charlotte-based developer and manager of student housing said the projects are expected to be ready for the 2012-13 academic year. The Auburn development will have 216 units with 600 beds [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: July 20,2011
A public-private partnership that would bring more parking and other improvements to the West Trade Street corridor is one step closer to becoming reality. On Monday, the Charlotte City Council’s economic development committee recommended to the full council that it partner with Charlotte-based Griffin Bros. and invest $3.18 million from the city’s Business Corridor Revitalization [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: July 20,2011
Three universities are no longer the owners of Park Road Shopping Center, the first open-air shopping center in Charlotte. Columbia, S.C.-based shopping center owner and developer Edens & Avant said today that it bought PRSC from Wake Forest University, Queens University of Charlotte and Wingate University. North Carolina businessman Porter Byrum, who gave the shopping [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: June 28,2011
Hugh Hattabaugh, the chief operating officer for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, has been named the interim replacement for former Superintendent Peter Gorman, who resigned this month. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education announced Hattabaugh’s appointment today. It takes effect Friday. Gorman announced June 8 that he was resigning to take a job with New York-based News Corp. Hattabaugh, who has [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: June 24,2011
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte said Stephen Ward will be its executive director of communications. Ward, a Michigan native, is leaving the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where he is executive director and assistant to the chancellor for university relations and communications. He has a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and a master’s [...]
By Scott Baughman
Published: June 24,2011
Carrie Berry says she works hard as placement director for King’s College in Charlotte’s Elizabeth neighborhood. But the federal government is about to force her and hundreds of other job placement workers at for-profit colleges to work a lot harder or their schools might be ineligible for federal student aid. Under new rules that will [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: June 17,2011
A project that started as a health and fitness website site at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte is now a stand-alone commercial venture. According to a UNCC press release, 411Fit will serve as an exercise and journaling website and help simplify the design and management of wellness programs for companies, health care professionals [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: June 16,2011
North Carolina State University said it plans to up its faculty by two at the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannopolis. The scientists, Slavko Komarnytsky and Xu “Sirius” Li, will work in the Plants for Human Health Institute. They will research how fruits and vegetables enhance human health and work to breed healthier varieties of fresh produce, [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: June 10,2011
He was under a lot of stress. He took advantage of an opportunity he couldn’t pass up. Those are factors members of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ Board of Education cited in the wake of Superintendent Peter Gorman’s announcement that he is throwing in the towel. In an email to The Mecklenburg Times, board member Rhonda Lennon wrote: “Dr. [...]
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