By Scott Baughman
Published: May 11,2012
Last week, in a 4-0 vote, the council’s public safety committee gave its support to the proposal, which calls for rental property owners to give the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department their contact information, including business and home addresses and phone numbers.
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: November 1,2011
Charlotte’s real estate community often cites three ordinances accused of making developing sites cumbersome and costly: the Urban Street Design Guidelines, the Post Construction Controls ordinance and the tree ordinance. Residential design standards for single-family homes in the city have also been controversial among industry officials. Below is a look at the ordinances and a [...]
By Scott Baughman
Published: October 14,2011
Charlotte-based Spangler Construction used to be in the commercial construction business. These days it’s known as a real estate investment company. And in the upcoming Charlotte City Council and mayoral elections, Spangler’s known as the company whose employees have donated the most to candidates in the two races. Spangler employees donated a total of $5,000 [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: June 28,2011
The Charlotte City Council has decided to award $2.5 million, rather than $10 million, to the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, in a blow to the embattled tourism-booster group. The council is expected to vote July 25 on the remainder of the funding. The CRVA was seeking $10 million, but instead council members approved $1.7 million [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: May 13,2011
In Mary Jones’s neighborhood near Johnson C. Smith University, the city of Charlotte is preparing to build a sidewalk. Although some homeowners might be excited about getting such a feature, Jones is not. This week, as construction crews did prep work on the project, Jones complained about the size of the planting strip being proposed [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: February 1,2011
Charlotte will be the host city for the 2012 Democratic National Convention, the Democratic National Committee said today, ending months of speculation in the Queen City. The city beat out St. Louis, Minneapolis and Cleveland for the 46th DMC, an event expected to bring at least a $150 million boost to Charlotte’s economy. “I think we can safely [...]
By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: January 20,2011
A call by the local NAACP to boycott the CIAA basketball tournament and other large sporting events is not sitting well with some black businesspeople in Charlotte who say it would hurt black businesses. During an executive board meeting Tuesday of the Charlotte chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Kojo [...]
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