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Unhappy trails (access required)

By Rhiannon Bowman, contributing writer
Published: June 21,2011

In 2002, Mount Holly citizens began meeting to work on ways to revitalize their downtown district. Lee Beatty, a family physician and a community leader, said people were wondering how to connect the town to the Catawba River, which is less than four-tenths of a mile from downtown Mount Holly. “There’s hardly any town that [...]


Forsite closes on first phase of ReVenture Park property

By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: March 16,2011

Charlotte-based Forsite Development said Tuesday that it has closed on 304 of the 667 acres that ReVenture Park is slated to encompass. The company, which is developing the eco-industrial park project, made the announcement Tuesday. Also Tuesday, Tom McKittrick, Forsite’s president, also said he is working with the Catawba Lands Conservancy on a 185-acre conservation [...]


Path to trail system bumpy, expensive (access required)

By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: December 10,2010

Kris Molander hunched over a map spread out on a table showing a network of pink and green lines snaking through Iredell County. The lines represented proposed sections of the Carolina Thread Trail, an ambitious and far-reaching network of greenways and conserved corridors that connect various places of interest throughout the region. “It’s a great [...]