By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: March 13,2013
CORNELIUS — A convenience-store conversion and enlargement project that was withdrawn by the developer in January has resurfaced on the town of Cornelius planning agenda. Dallas-based 7-Eleven wants to split and conditionally rezone the 1-acre site on which a Sam’s Mart sits at Magnolia Estates and West Catawba Avenue. The new 7-Eleven would be a [...]
By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: February 22,2013
CORNELIUS — After being deferred earlier this week, a rezoning request that would allow a car dealership to make a major expansion is scheduled to resurface next month on the meeting agenda of the Cornelius Board of Commissioners. Commissioners voted unanimously Monday night to put the commercial rezoning request, from Lake Norman Hyundai on Chartwell Center Drive, on hold [...]
By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: February 18,2013
CORNELIUS — In a last-minute move, developer Jake Palillo of Cornelius late last week pulled his unusual — and controversial — multifamily Bailey Forest plan from Monday night’s town Board of Commissioners meeting, where it was widely expected to fail. On Monday, Palillo said he would resubmit the plan to subdivide 62 forested acres on [...]
By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: February 15,2013
“Jake is a smart and creative developer, but he’s a catastrophe as a communicator," Cornelius Commissioner David Gilroy said. "He shoots himself in both feet and the side of the head."
By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: February 12,2013
The appointed planning board for this crowded north Mecklenburg town voted unanimously Monday night to recommend that the elected town Board of Commissioners grant a rezoning request for a commercial project to allow a car dealership to make a major expansion.
By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: January 22,2013
"The first thing I’d like to do is update the land-use plan," he said. "It has not been updated since 1999."
By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: January 16,2013
Developer Jake Palillo of Bluestream Partners, the group behind the Bailey Forest project, said he figured it was inevitable that the town's Board of Commissioners would reject the project.
By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: January 4,2013
CORNELIUS — It looks like a little tussle is brewing over the fast-track plan to widen Interstate 77 north of Charlotte’s city limits and ease congestion on the roadway. In a special meeting Thursday, the town of Cornelius’ Transportation Advisory Board threw a speed bump in the way of an otherwise widely accepted North Carolina [...]
By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: December 26,2012
CORNELIUS — The town Planning Board on Friday will consider a proposal by the Bank of the Ozarks to build a 3,800-square-foot branch and a 19-car parking lot on 1.5 acres on West Catawba Avenue at Kunkleman Drive. Bank of the Ozarks, headquartered in West Little Rock, Ark., and with branches throughout the Southeast, is [...]
By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: December 25,2012
Wayne Herron abruptly resigned in July as Monroe city manager after a series of conflicts with staff members, including a very public tiff with Monroe Police Chief Debra Duncan and City Councilwoman Dottie Nash.
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