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		<title>SouthPark residents upset over proposed hotel</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2012/05/15/southpark-residents-upset-over-proposed-hotel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 04:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Baughman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CN Hotels' project has ticked off residents, who say it will be too tall, encourage too much commercial development in their neighborhood and be too dense of a development for a residential area.]]></description>
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		<title>Extreme networking: Striking up  conversation helped Bellamy land ‘Extreme Makeover’&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/12/02/extreme-networking-striking-up-%e2%80%a8conversation-helped-bellamy-land-%e2%80%98extreme-makeover%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Ramsey, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At just 3 years old, Bellamy Homes is pretty much a newcomer when it comes to Charlotte homebuilders. That didn’t stop it from being on the lips of officials in the local industry last month when it was picked to be featured in “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” the ABC show in which host Ty Pennington [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rezoning complicates Jack’s Across the Tracks project&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/11/08/rezoning-complicates-jack%e2%80%99s-across-the-tracks-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Ramsey, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Rob Nixon and business partner Andy Wilson bought a rundown former church at 1212 Pecan Ave. in Charlotte in March 2007 for $650,000 from Russ-Mar Properties, Nixon said he felt like Christopher Columbus. “I had my flag in the ground,” he said. The plan was to convert the 8,100-square-foot church into a nightclub. At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Union County  building inspection department in  new digs&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mecklenburg Times staff reports</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Union County’s building inspection department moved Thursday into renovated space on the ground floor of the Union County Government Center, 500 N. Main St., in Monroe. The department had been operating from the seventh floor of the government center for about a year, according to a county press release.]]></description>
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		<title>Heartbreak hotel: It’s almost time for last checkout at iconic Concord property&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/10/18/heartbreak-hotel-it%e2%80%99s-almost-time-for-last-checkout-at-iconic-concord-property/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Boykin, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Allen Craven’s father moved to the city of Concord, Hotel Concord was his home for months. It was around the 1950s, and Craven’s dad, who has since died, lived there while setting up a medical practice across the street. “He paid $3.50 a week for a furnished room, and that included breakfast, dinner and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fondue eatery’s  departure might cause dip in traffic&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/10/07/fondue-eatery%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%a8departure-might-cause-dip-in-traffic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mecklenburg Times staff reports</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The University City-area Melting Pot will be no more. The fondue restaurant, part of a national chain, is moving from the Grand Promenade shopping center on W.T. Harris Boulevard to 16625 Statesville Road in Huntersville in about two months. That has some tenants at Grand Promenade worried. “We get a lot of overflow from The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autobell, Bissell Cos. get rezoning OKs&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/09/23/autobell-bissell-cos-get-rezoning-oks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mecklenburg Times staff reports</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Charlotte City Council this week approved rezoning requests for carwash company Autobell and developer The Bissell Cos. For Autobell, the rezoning of 1.82-acres at Park, Tyvola and Fairview roads from high-density multifamily residential, or R-22, to a business district allows the company to open a carwash in SouthPark, a neigborhood Autobell has wanted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driving range  allowed to tee off in Lincoln County&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/09/20/driving-range-%e2%80%a8allowed-to-tee-off-in-lincoln-county/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mecklenburg Times staff reports</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lincoln County commissioners have approved a rezoning that will allow construction of a golf driving range. The county’s planning board has recommended approval of a rezoning request from Steven Pearman of Denver to change 10.2 acres from single-family residential to the appropriate commercial use for the range. The land is about 400 feet west of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gaston County still searching for sports complex site&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/09/20/gaston-county-still-searching-for-sports-complex-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gaston County commissioners have passed on the opportunity to buy about 100 acres of land for a youth sports complex. The site, known as the Lineberger property because it is owned by members of the Lineberger family, was being considered for the sports complex after the Gaston County Travel and Tourism Advisory Board recommended it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America’s Park  developers postpone project’s opening&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/09/16/america%e2%80%99s-park-%e2%80%a8developers-postpone-project%e2%80%99s-opening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mecklenburg Times staff reports</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four days after The Mecklenburg Times reported that America’s Park developers were lagging on a road construction project necessary to build their 25-field, $20 million baseball complex in Mooresville, developers announced Tuesday they were pushing back the opening date to 2013. Lou Presutti, one of the project’s principals, said during a press conference Tuesday that [...]]]></description>
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