Charlotte Knights General Manager Dan Rajkowski has homerun-sized plans for an empty, underutilized piece of property in uptown. The Knights lease a lot on South Mint Street from Mecklenburg County. For now, it’s just an open, grassy field with security lights scattered throughout. Someday, Rajkowski hopes there will be a baseball park on the site, [...]
Who says going to Panthers games is a big disappointment? Not the city’s Solid Waste Services division. SWS is again teaming with the Panthers to provide yellow bags to collect tailgaters’ recyclables at Bank of America Stadium. Unlike the Panthers, who had a 2-14 record last season (the worst in the NFL), the recycling program [...]
Age: 48 Lives in: Rock Hill, S.C. Family: wife, Marie; children, Jesse, 7, Jake, 5 Education: bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering technology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Joel Matthews likes to blow stuff up. He’s been doing it for about 30 years, and as event producer for East Coast Pyrotechnics in Catawba, S.C., he [...]
Summer in Charlotte is in full swing, and that could mean good business for arenas and venues that offer a concert and a cool reprieve from the heat or just a way to unwind. But in these days of economic recovery, consumers are also watching their wallets. Big shows can bring big price tags for [...]
The Charlotte Knights have slain the lawsuit dragon delaying their new stadium in uptown. Now, the Triple-A ball club must convince some skeptical Mecklenburg County commissioners that the project is still a good use of the land. In their pitch, the Knights are pointing to Indianapolis, a city about 440 miles away, and what they [...]
Two recycling initiatives are being credited with the removal of 25 tons of waste in Mecklenburg County. According to the Mecklenburg County Waste Management Advisory Board, a program developed by the county to shred and recycle sensitive documents netted 23 tons of recyclables Saturday at the county’s four full-service recycling centers. Four hundred residents recycled approximately [...]
Frank Arooji was about halfway through the multimillion-dollar project when he started having serious misgivings. “I thought, ‘Why did I do it?’” said Arooji, co-owner of Matthews-based Persis-Nova Builders, which builds custom homes throughout the Carolinas. Arooji and his partner, Eddie Mowlavi, had earned a spot as one of the builders for the 2008 HomeArama, [...]
