On one side of the table was Charlotte attorney Ken Davies, who had a small, private practice and handled mostly domestic and personal injury cases and the occasional real estate litigation. On the other side of the table was a team of about eight attorneys who represented the city’s elite: well-connected movers and shakers who [...]
Age: 48 Lives in: uptown Charlotte Family: single; no children Education: bachelor’s degree in distribution management, Belmont Abbey College Doug Ehmann’s got big dreams. The president of Charlotte-based DPE Investments plans to open Research Commerce Park, a 32-acre mixed-use project in Kannapolis, what he calls the biggest real estate project of his career so far. [...]
Already skeptical of SouthPark Mall, a big, new complex built in the middle of pastureland, residents weren’t happy when they learned that Charlotte developer Johnny Harris planned to build offices and retail shops around it. It was the early 1970s, and Harris, then a partner at The Bissell Cos., said his family had sold the [...]
As the collision between the Federal Trade Commission and the North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners unfolds in legal slow motion, Ron Haynes sells teeth-whitening supplies and insists he doesn’t understand the fuss. It’s a fuss that is taking two routes toward the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals and appears bound for the U.S. [...]