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LANCASTER, S.C. – The hot-button issue of roads – who pays to pave and how to zone and own – drove Monday night’s Lancaster County Council meeting. The three votes taken illustrated some of the competing priorities in the fast-developing ...

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HARRISBURG – Charlotte-based Aston Properties announced this week that ground has been broken on an 85,000-square-foot shopping center that is scheduled to be open in late fall 2015, anchored by a new Harris Teeter grocery store. Caldwell Crossing will be ...

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LANCASTER, S.C. – Lancaster County Councilman Larry Honeycutt wants his Wendy’s chili, and he doesn’t want to have to dodge mops and mop buckets to get it. This revelation came at a County Council on Monday night during discussion of ...

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CHARLOTTE – The Charlotte City Council’s Environment Committee voted 3-1 Wednesday to recommend that the full council extend by five years a stormwater mitigation fee program for redevelopment projects across the city. The only member of the committee to object ...

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CHARLOTTE — Sharp. That’s the word for Ryan Clutter: sharp-looking and sharp-thinking. Yet he’s down-to-earth, as you would expect from his Indiana upbringing, and self-deprecating to boot. Clutter is senior managing director of the startup Charlotte office of the Pittsburgh-based ...

The building sector of the U.S. economy added 22,000 new jobs last month, but a pullback in spending in June shows “the uneven nature of the construction industry’s recovery.” That’s the conclusion of the Associated General Contractors of America’s latest ...

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RALEIGH – With the state House and Senate unable to agree even on when and how to adjourn what so far has been a contentious 2014 session, a regulatory reform package that has the support of the building industry is ...

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CHARLOTTE – An ambitious and long-anticipated proposal to transform uptown’s First Ward from a maze of parking lots into a $700 million “urban village” is at last a go, developer Daniel Levine said. The Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners on ...

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CHARLOTTE – Barely a year old, Steele Creek Commerce Park is already gearing up for a second phase, which would more than double its size, up to 105 acres and 1.1 million square feet. And with its location at Steele ...

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CHARLOTTE – Dave Simpson gives good quote. That’s because before he became a Raleigh-based lobbyist for the Carolinas Association of General Contractors, he got good quote. He was, in other words, a reporter. But he wised up relatively early and ...

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