From expanding facilities, mergers and acquisitions and the creation of new jobs, there’s been a spate of business announcements in Charlotte recently. Some say the announcements indicate that the region’s business climate is improving, but they are hesitant to say when Charlotte will emerge from the recession. “Charlotte is hitting the radar of a lot [...]
When Shaw Power Group announced Tuesday plans to add 225 jobs in Charlotte, it electrified economic development officials, who have been trying to raise the city’s profile as an energy capital. SPG, part of Baton Rouge, La.-based The Shaw Group, released the news after announcing the day before that the company and Toshiba Corp. entered [...]
Google this: western North Carolina is quickly becoming a hot spot to locate a data center. With companies such as Facebook, Apple, Wipro and, of course, Google investing millions in smaller, more rural towns to develop sites into large data centers, the region is becoming a technological corridor attractive to similar companies. Mecklenburg County, though, [...]
