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Towns battle glut of empty office space (access required)

By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: January 11,2011

Along just about any of the thoroughfares winding through north Mecklenburg County’s three municipalities, signs advertising office space for lease are scattered everywhere. It’s an indicator of the challenges the area’s office market is facing as 2011 kicks off. “It’s a matter of people building into a boom, and then the boom exploding,” Cornelius Town [...]


Struggling with explosive growth, Cornelius is planning its future (access required)

By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: December 23,2010

It doesn’t look good for Cornelius in the next 10 years. According to a report by the Urban Resource Group, which in September finished a study of Cornelius, the north Mecklenburg town’s population could peek at about 37,000 by 2020. “That’s more than we can handle,” the town’s mayor, Jeff Tarte, said. As officials worry [...]