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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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Features
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- Foundry Taps Alex Olofson to Lead Capital Markets Growth in Charlotte
- Tony Lathrop Strengthens Parker Poe’s Infrastructure, Transportation & Public Policy Services
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