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Home>Tony Brown, Staff Writer

Tony Brown, Staff Writer

Recent Articles from Tony Brown, Staff Writer

Construction and Real Estate September 8, 2014

CORRECTED: Lennar town house subdivision to breathe more life into stalled development

Editor’s note: Corrected for date of public hearing and number of lots sold. INDIAN LAND, S.C. – The latest addition to the housing boom in the upper panhandle of Lancaster […]

Construction and Real Estate September 2, 2014

RENOVATION REPORT: Duke Mansion gets facelift for 100th birthday

James Buchanan Duke – call him Buck – is known as an industrial pioneer. But he didn’t actually pioneer so much as use money to acquire the pioneers and put […]

Construction and Real Estate August 30, 2014

CORRECTED: ON THE LEVEL: Prepare to keep up with Realtor/DJ/Marketer Derrick Kiker

CHARLOTTE –Derrick Kiker has made a career – actually, three or four careers – of not being pinned down. But Kiker, one of the latest additions to the SouthPark offices […]

Construction and Real Estate August 28, 2014

Attaboy, Mr. Mayor

Charlotte Mayor Dan Clodfelter, a country boy educated at Duke University and in the N.C. Legislature, has a way of making observations that are dead-on true – and, better yet, […]

Construction and Real Estate August 27, 2014

Public hearing approved for annexations

In a consent action Monday night, the Charlotte City Council set a public hearing date of Sept. 22 for the proposed voluntary annexation of the 66.6-acre Trevi Village area, in […]

Construction and Real Estate August 27, 2014

In split decision, City Council awards parking garage contracts

CHARLOTTE – The Charlotte City Council on Monday night awarded two major construction contracts for Blue Line extension projects worth nearly $57 million. Although the two companies qualified as low-bidders, […]

Construction and Real Estate August 26, 2014

Negotiating a Hornets nest: TWC Arena update costs whittled to $29.9 million

CHARLOTTE – Assistant City Manager Ron Kimble was smiling as he told the City Council Monday night that negotiations with the Hornets basketball franchise had trimmed a request for $47.8 […]

Construction and Real Estate August 25, 2014

ON THE LEVEL: Tommy Lawing lays down real estate law – and lays out real estate history

CHARLOTTE – Time was, there was Brown & Glenn, Berryhill Realty, Dwelle, a handful of others. But if you wanted to rent an apartment or house from the great-great-granddaddy of […]

Construction and Real Estate August 25, 2014

July’s existing home sales rise to best pace of year, but are down from 2013

July sales of existing homes across the country rose to their highest annual pace of the year – with the South leading the way – while the ongoing decline in […]

Construction and Real Estate August 25, 2014

Together, apparently, ‘til real estate do them part

When they were together, Mia Farrow and Woody Allen lived across Central Park from each other; Farrow in that fabulous 11-room Upper West Side apartment seen in “Hannah and Her […]

Construction and Real Estate August 22, 2014

BDC report: July was a construction corker

CHARLOTTE – Total building permit value in Mecklenburg County made unexpectedly high annual and monthly jumps in July to the highest level seen in the past 60 months. At nearly […]

Construction and Real Estate August 20, 2014

RENOVATION REPORT: 1991 Mecklenburg Aquatic Center gets updated

CHARLOTTE – A wag with an office in the Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center has a “No Swimming” sign in his or her window. Starting June 1, 2015, that sign – […]

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