Jerry Reese has a lot of ties to the Denver area in Lincoln County. In fact, the Charlotte-based attorney, whom many know by his failed attempts to stop the Charlotte Knights’ stadium from being built in uptown, is in the Denver area frequently, either attending to his 79-year-old mother or checking up on business interests [...]
Last week, Mecklenburg County commissioners on the Economic Development Committee heard from officials with the Charlotte Knights as the team sought more time to build a stadium uptown. The county owns the land that the Triple-A team is eyeing for the stadium, and the team has a lease from the county for the site. But [...]
Charlotte attorney Jerry Reese has filed more than one lawsuit trying to block the stadium project by the Knights. The first, filed in 2007, opposed a series of land swaps by the city, Mecklenburg County, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education and developer Cornerstone Realty. But judges have struck down Reese’s suits, in which he alleges [...]