By Scott Baughman
Published: November 12,2011
The former Premiere Manufacturing Knitting Co. plant in Morganton has a new lease on life, since it’s now home to City Hall and residential and commercial properties. About 10 years ago, the 100,000-square-foot Burke County building was a decaying hulk at the edge of the central business district. “People called it Kosovo,” said Sally Sandy, [...]
By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: October 25,2011
Ciearra Butler wasn’t planning on getting pregnant. But when she found out she was going to have a girl, she wanted a place of her own rather than live with her mother. “I wanted to be independent and give my daughter some privacy,” said Butler, 26. A little less than two years ago she moved [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: September 26,2011
Salisbury has launched a plan to improve the city’s West End neighborhood. The plan is particularly aimed at the 72-unit Civic Park public housing development, which was built in 1953, said Joe Morris, the city’s planning services director. A $170,000 federal Choice Neighborhood Planning Grant, which is designed to transform distressed neighborhoods into mixed-income communities, [...]
By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: August 19,2011
Joe Morris, Salisbury’s planning director and a local history buff, likes to recall Salisbury native Ralph Ketner’s quest to get into the grocery business. Ketner’s family had owned grocery stores in and around the railroad and textile town for decades, so no one was surprised when Ralph, Brown, his older brother, and friend, Wilson Smith, [...]
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