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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 $537.8 million, permit value leapt 26.5 percent over July 2013, ...

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 – or one like it – will be posted on the ...

Tagged with: Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation Department

Let’s make this as clear as the acrylic furniture in the living room: Puff Daddy is not getting $8.5 million for his Upper West Side loft. That’s the price Sean Combs – aka Puff Daddy, P. Diddy and Puffy – ...

CHARLOTTE – If the first thing you think of when you think “accountant” is “Louis Tully,” you have not met Rob Phillips, CPA. At 6’5”, this basketball-playing, savvy and slyly funny numbers-cruncher is definitely not the nerdy guy down the ...

CHARLOTTE – Ron Kimble, city of Charlotte assistant manager, will be among the speakers leading a free “Introductory to New Markets Tax Credit” workshop from 10 a.m.-noon Aug. 25. The workshop, sponsored by SunTrust Bank, The Housing Partnership, Laurel Street ...

Tagged with: CommunityOne Bank Laurel Street Residential Ron Kimble

RALEIGH – The full state Senate and House on Friday passed a conference committee version of a regulatory reform package that has wide support in the building industry. After Senate Bill 734 bill is enrolled, it will go to the ...

Tagged with: N.C. General Assembly Real Estate and Building Industry Coalition

CHARLOTTE – The Queen City already has its Pink Building – the Arlington Condominiums tower in South End. But the Commercial Real Estate Women Charlotte chapter wants more. Known by the acronym CREW, the group will hold its sixth annual ...

Tagged with: CREW Charlotte

CHARLOTTE – Thomas Ranson Lawing Sr., one of the deans of Charlotte real estate and founder of T.R. Lawing Realty, died Wednesday. Lawing, 86 when he died at Aldersgate Retirement Community, was practicing real estate before real estate was regulated ...

WEDDINGTON – The Town Council of this growing Union County municipality voted Monday night to approve the final plat for the first 12 homes in an upscale subdivision called Atherton Estates. January’s preliminary plat approval for the subdivision would allow ...

Tagged with: Weddington Town Council

In other action Monday night, the Lancaster County Council approved the final reading of an ordinance rezoning 9 acres in the Indian Land area to accommodate a proposed town house development. Essex Homes of Lexington, S.C., and Charlotte-based Scott Development ...

Tagged with: Lancaster County Council