Detective Charles Witherspoon usually doesn’t get involved until things get really bad, and the situation last year at Vox Sports Club on Wilkinson Boulevard in west Charlotte was about the worst he’d ever seen. The 28-year veteran of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department heads the Nuisance Abatement Unit, a collaboration between CMPD and other local government [...]
As executive director of the North Carolina Manufactured and Modular Homebuilders Association, Brad Lovin is constantly promoting ownership of mobile homes. It’s not an easy gig. Lovin said that since the Great Recession hit, he’s heard from many — from legislators to county officials — who assume that the mobile home industry must be doing [...]
Cosmos Cafe in Ballantyne has become the latest restaurant caught in an ambiguous area of the city’s zoning that threatened to shut the business down over concerns about illegal nightclubs. Mecklenburg County code inspectors and officers from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department conducted a surprise inspection of the cafe at 1 a.m. Aug. 21 and issued [...]
