By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: January 11,2011
Along just about any of the thoroughfares winding through north Mecklenburg County’s three municipalities, signs advertising office space for lease are scattered everywhere. It’s an indicator of the challenges the area’s office market is facing as 2011 kicks off. “It’s a matter of people building into a boom, and then the boom exploding,” Cornelius Town [...]
By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: December 23,2010
It doesn’t look good for Cornelius in the next 10 years. According to a report by the Urban Resource Group, which in September finished a study of Cornelius, the north Mecklenburg town’s population could peek at about 37,000 by 2020. “That’s more than we can handle,” the town’s mayor, Jeff Tarte, said. As officials worry [...]
By Caitlin Coakley, staff writer
Published: November 9,2010
After receiving a letter from Mayor Anthony Foxx’s office Sept. 13, signed, to the best of his knowledge, by Foxx himself, Eric Dudley thought it was all settled. He was the new chairman of the Business Advisory Committee. But three days later, Dudley got a phone call saying that there had been a mistake, that [...]
By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: November 9,2010
Just follow the money. Do that, Cornelius Mayor Jeff Tarte says, and you’ll find out why people in the unincorporated areas of Cornelius aren’t getting the police protection for which they pay. “It’s politics at its ultimate,” he said. “The whole thing is a cash cow for Charlotte.” Tarte is not alone. He’s one of [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: October 19,2010
(Editor’s note: Part of an occasional series on growth of communities outside Charlotte) Business owner Tana Greene remembers when the only place to eat in the Lake Norman area was the Ham and Eggs restaurant at Exit 28 off Interstate 77 in Cornelius. “It was the cheesiest little greasy spoon you have ever seen in [...]
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