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Habitat house built during DNC dedicated in Reid Park (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: December 12,2012

CHARLOTTE — Thirteen weeks and 3 1/2 miles later, the house built by Habitat for Humanity in an uptown parking lot during the 2012 Democratic National Convention was turned over to its new owner at a ceremony Thursday. Darcel and James Fennell took the keys to the “DNC Legacy House,” at 3121 Amay James in [...]


Thanks to convention, Charlotte’s dot on the map gets much bigger (access required)

By Molly Hedrick, Guest Columnist
Published: February 11,2011

On Feb. 1, I took a very seldom-taken day off to tend to my sick 8-year-old son. By midday, I found out we had been awarded the Democratic National Convention from a breaking news report from a local station. It didn’t take long at all for calls from media across the country and around the [...]