Last week, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission’s zoning committee recommended that approval not be granted to a rezoning request for 3.23 acres at West Sugar Creek Road, North Graham Street and Mineral Springs Road. Louis Ratcliff Inc. sought the change to allow a tenant to operate a community theater that serves alcohol. The City Council will [...]
Statesville’s planning board is recommending new design guidelines for restaurants with outdoor dining. The guidelines would allow business owners to have outdoor dining within the city’s central business district. They spell out, among other things, perimeter dimensions for barriers, such as fences and ropes, and acceptable types of furniture, banning sofas, serving stations and bar counters. The measures [...]
A rezoning request from The Bissell Cos. will be considered at a meeting of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission 5 p.m. Tuesday. Bissell hopes to rezone 520 acres for the development of 1.06 million square feet of office space, 100 hotel rooms and 600 residential units in Ballantyne Corporate Park. The property is zoned business park [...]
The owner of Carowinds has bought 61 acres of vacant property next to the theme park to make way for future expansions. Cedar Fair Entertainment Co., based in Sandusky, Ohio, made the announcement Monday. It did not disclose the purchase price. Matt Ouimet, Cedar Fair President, said that since 2006 the company has invested more [...]
Tim Newman, the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority CEO who has been the subject of criticism for months, will no longer fill that role with the agency, the CRVA announced today. Instead, Newman will be the agency’s senior executive responsible for business development, sales and marketing, according to a letter today from CRVA Chairman Joe Hallow and [...]
Concord-based Speedway Motorsports, which owns Charlotte Motor Speedway, today declared a quarterly cash dividend of 10 cents per share of its common stock. The dividend will be payable Sept. 9 to shareholders of record by the close of business Aug. 19. The company also produces and broadcasts syndicated motorsports programming to radio stations nationwide through [...]
The Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority announced today that it has three new board members. Chuck Allen is the Charlotte-based managing director of government and community relations for US Airways. Will Miller, who helped Charlotte with its bid for the 2012 Democratic National Convention, is executive director and founder of Social Venture Partners Charlotte and a partner [...]
Mecklenburg County commissioners approved a deal Tuesday night to allow the Charlotte Knights to move forward with plans for an uptown stadium on county-owned land. The deal passed in a 7-2 vote. It stipulates that: • by Aug. 31 the Triple-A baseball team must deposit $100,000 into an escrow account toward its obligation for county [...]
(Editor’s note: Part four of a five-part occasional series on the top cities that Charlotte competes with.) This year, Charlotte and Tampa, Fla., got some major convention news. The Queen City found out that it is going to be the site of the 2012 Democratic National Convention, while the GOP picked the Cigar City to [...]
Qualifying for a loan in today’s economic environment is a daunting task for many. For the Charlotte Knights, it is the next mountain to climb in order for the minor league baseball team to build a new stadium in uptown on county-owned land. The team has little more than a year to start construction on [...]
