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Not much demand for city revolving-loan program (access required)

By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: May 24,2011

A city program that is supposed to provide funding to developers in order to help turn around distressed and forgotten-about areas has itself become neglected. It might seem odd considering that it’s not easy today for developers to get project financing, but city officials say there’s little demand for the Business Corridor Revitalization Program, which [...]


Five years from home (access required)

By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: April 1,2011

Carletta Jackson wants to move back to the home that she was kicked out of. It happened in 2006, on Mother’s Day weekend. Jackson had just come home from work and was in the kitchen making food and cocktails for a neighborhood cookout when there was a knock on her door. It was a Charlotte [...]