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CATS hosting Blue Line Extension meeting for local businesses
The Charlotte Area Transit System on Sept. 10 is hosting a Business Opportunity and Outreach Symposium to give small, socially- or economically- challenged local business an opportunity to hear about publicly-funded contracts available by taking part in the Small Business Enterprise and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise programs.
Transit talk
After 14 years in the making, a planned uptown transit center still hasn't quite left the station.
Southside building park-and-ride CATS station
Last month, Charlotte-based commercial contractor Southside Constructors began building a park-and-ride station for the Charlotte Area Transit System, a project that will increase the number of such stations to eight.
Tweaks could come to affordable-housing rules
The city of Charlotte is considering changing its rules affecting the construction of affordable housing near transit stations. City officials say that the policy that 30 percent of a housing development built with city money be reserved for middle to lower-income residents is a pricey one for developers to comply with.
It’s a project for bidders to keep tabs on projects
The bid submitted in September by Charlotte-based Edifice General Contractors for a project at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport was in two volumes, each about 3 inches thick. The drawings alone for […]
CATS awarded $847,417 from NCDOT
The Charlotte Area Transit System is getting an $847,417 boost from the North Carolina Department of Transportation. The department’s board of transportation has OK’d the funding to improve public transportation […]
Latinos say city, county not doing enough to help their businesses
Mario Grijalva came to Charlotte five years ago from California. Before that, he lived in El Salvador. The 53-year-old co-owns M&J Auto Repair, which is just off South Boulevard, a […]
CATS loses ‘possibly hundreds of dollars’ in revenue on Speed Street night
Light-rail ridership levels tripled May 28 during Food Lion Speed Street compared with an average Saturday, and some of those passengers did not pay after they were let on trains […]
Destination still unknown for Independence Boulevard area
When it comes to lengthy and convoluted planning processes, the Independence Boulevard project is one of Charlotte’s most notorious examples. And it doesn’t look like things are going to improve […]
Independence Boulevard plan adoption stalls
The adoption of the Independence Boulevard area plan was stalled Tuesday when a committee of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission asked planners to consider making revisions. One of the main areas […]
Panelists recommend buses and streetcars, not light rail, for Independence Boulevard
For Independence Boulevard, light rail is out. Streetcars and bus rapid transit are in. Those were the recommendations from Urban Land Institute representatives during a presentation in Charlotte City Council chambers […]
Groups laud preservation of North Tryon projects
Although cutting or scaling back the right of way project along North Tryon Street would save $45 million, the Charlotte Area Transit System has decided to preserve those improvements. Such […]
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