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Rising material prices hammer Charlotte-area construction industry (access required)

By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: April 5,2011

In Charlotte, as in the rest of the country, the construction industry is feeling the pinch. The cost of building materials keeps rising. According to a March 16 Associated General Contractors of America report, material prices for all types of construction have risen 6.1 percent in the past 12 months in the U.S. Some Charlotte-area [...]


Union County keeps on growing, but not everyone likes the boom (access required)

By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: March 21,2011

Union County knows what growing pains are. In the past 10 years, the population of Mecklenburg County’s neighbor to the southeast has exploded 62 percent, rising from 123,677 residents in 2000 to 201,292 in 2010. It’s the largest percentage increase of any county in the Charlotte area. There’s been so much housing growth in Union [...]