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Prescription: Plan, then plan some more
Presbyterian Hospital in Matthews is facing a daunting task: adding a floor to a four-story building while still trying to run a hospital. No matter how many expansions a hospital system has under its belt, such projects remain complex.
Center complexities
If you blink while driving by a Peak 10 data center, you’re apt to miss it. In 10 Southeastern and Midwestern cities, all 23 of them are nondescript, boxy, re-enforced concrete buildings with minimal signage. Peak 10’s three-stage data center now under construction in north Charlotte will be no different.
Montford magic
Montford Drive is just a fourth of a mile long a cut-through connecting Park and Woodlawn roads in the heart of suburban Charlotte. But Montford has become a popular entertainment district, one that routinely attracts a couple thousand people on weekend nights.
Green takes on a new role with Charlotte Habitat
This month, Bert Green is stepping down as CEO of Charlotte Habitat for Humanity and, instead, will serve as director of strategic initiatives, a newly created position.
Holly Alexander, Concorde Construction
As 2011 drew to a close, Holly Alexander looked back at the year and smiled. It had been one of the most challenging years of her life, but it had also been one of the most satisfying. In her job as director of business and marketing for Concorde Construction, she experienced firsthand the impact of the recession on the construction industry. As president of the 240-member Charlotte chapter of Com[...]
Catherine Bessant, Bank of America
As one of the highest-ranking women at Bank of America, Cathy Bessant has had to overcome many challenges in her career. But even as she is responsible for more than 100,000 employees and contractors worldwide – more than any other BofA division – as global technology and operations executive, she said she remains committed to helping other women reach their full potential, especially in the s[...]
Nancy Braun, Showcase Realty
As a former restaurant owner and attorney, Nancy Braun knew that opening any kind of new business would be a challenge. But little did she know that the residential real estate boom would collapse soon after she opened Showcase Realty in March 2008. She started Showcase with two employees in a single office.Today, she has more than 20 employees and agents working for her in three offices.
Susan Briggs, Dickie McCamey & Chilcote
Susan Briggs is a successful workers’ compensation attorney and managing partner for the Charlotte/Raleigh office of Dickie McCamey & Chilcote. But Briggs, 43, said she would never have reached this point if it weren’t for the promise she made to her dying mother. It was 1991, and Briggs had just begun law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when her mother learned she ha[...]
Angela Broome, American Red Cross
Angela Broome knew it would be a challenge to switch careers from the banking world to the nonprofit arena. She knew her new job as chief executive of the American Red Cross’ Carolina Piedmont Region wouldn’t be easy. But it was made even more difficult because she was taking the helm of an organization that had just gone through a consolidation and reorganization. On top of that, she faced a [...]
Sarah Buffett, Moore & Van Allen
In describing her work as an international, corporate and immigration attorney for Moore & Van Allen, Sarah Buffett tells people she fights Homeland Security for a living. “But I don’t always win,” she says. While that sounds pretty challenging, the biggest obstacle in her life is learning to say “no” when asked to pitch in and help people who can’t help themselves, she said.
Patricia Campbell, Presbyterian Hospital
In her 23 years as director and then vice president, since 1998, of women’s and children’s services for Presbyterian Hospital, Patricia Campbell has been an advocate for improving health care for those two groups. Today, she oversees 15 departments and a $70 million annual budget.
Clair Campbell, Campbell & Associates
Clair Campbell admits she doesn’t shy away from a challenge. And she has had more than her share to overcome since she began her career as a personal-injury lawyer when she was just 23 after being the youngest graduate of the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala. She had started at the University of Alabama, where she graduated in 1982 ... at age 16.
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