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Editor’s Note: This story is the third in a three-part series examining the infrastructure improvements needed in the Charlotte region to accommodate its burgeoning growth. Of all the utilities, water is the most affordable, and perhaps the most important. While ...

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Editor’s Note: This story is the second in a three-part series examining the infrastructure improvements needed in the Charlotte region to accommodate its burgeoning growth. Because traffic congestion is so visible and impacts most people’s daily lives, it naturally tops ...

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Editor’s Note: This story is the first in a three-part series examining the infrastructure improvements needed in the Charlotte region to accommodate its burgeoning growth. On the one hand, it’s great news. Drawn by economic opportunities and a desirable quality ...

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Name: Scott Hensley Title: Piedmont Properties partner Age: 42 Lives in: Huntersville Family: wife, Stacy; children, Chase, 7 Education: bachelor’s degree in marketing, Virginia Tech University After he graduated from college, Scott Hensley landed a job at IBM in Richmond, ...

Linda Holden was newly divorced, going to school part time, and raising two kids. “I needed to make some money,” she said.” It was the early 1970s, and at the time she was living in an apartment complex in Endicott, N.Y. Desperate for work, she asked the apartment complex’s owner, who was also a developer and builder, for a job.

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Elaine Rudisill is OK with not being popular. And as court-appointed trustee for the EpiCentre – and one of the most powerful figures in the ongoing legal battle involving the shopping and entertainment complex – there are lots of reasons ...

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The economy was creeping along and construction projects weren’t exactly waiting around every corner. For Daniel, owner of Daniel Design, a Charlotte-based foodservice consulting and facility design firm, such work wasn’t easy to come by. But this year, he’s experienced a spike in restaurant jobs, and he attributes at least some of the uptick to three letters: DNC.

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This year, the Charlotte office of project management and construction company Lend Lease Inc. increased its staff by about eight. Next year, the office will get even bigger, with plans to hire another eight or so workers as managers and ...

These Walls takes a close look at the history behind Charlotte-area buildings. Palmer Fire School was almost extinguished. Mecklenburg County had condemned the historic building and was ready to demolish it. That’s when Dan Morrill, director of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic ...

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Thanks, but no thanks. That’s what real estate mogul Donald Trump is saying today in deciding to not move forward with a purchase of The Point Lake and Golf Club, a deal that was being discussed for more than a ...