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CHARLOTTE – Despite higher numbers across the board in the second quarter – in new home starts, closings and prices – don’t yet bet the house on a sustained residential construction recovery. New-home permits are down, inventory is low, desirable ...

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CHARLOTTE – The Charlotte City Council on Monday night unanimously approved a rezoning petition by Copper Builders and Cambridge Properties on 9 acres near Carmel and Colony roads. Before the meeting, Wade Miller, president of Copper Builders, said his company ...

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CHARLOTTE – Clapboard, 1940s houses with one story and square footages in the low 1,000s line the northwest side of Marshall Place, a street along the South Boulevard frontier of Dilworth. Pulte Homes wants to buy and tear down 10 ...

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CHARLOTTE – At Monday’s zoning meeting, the Charlotte City Council unanimously approved a rewrite of the municipal zoning ordinance’s 1981 definitions of “nightclub,” “bars,” “restaurants” and “lounges.” The new language, written by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Department after two years of ...

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CHARLOTTE – A Fortune 500 company that manufactures Bubble Wrap and Cryovac plastic food packaging is coming to town and plans to construct a new $50 million headquarters in the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport area in 2016. Sealed Air Corp., a ...

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DAVIDSON – Roy Alexander, executive director of the Davidson Lands Conservancy, is one of those people you can’t help but be in awe of. At 71, he has literally spent his adult life in the service of others, and of ...

CHARLOTTE – Habitat Charlotte is trying out the solar system. The city’s chapter of Habitat for Humanity International announced it is installing solar energy systems on nine of its affordable homes this year. The first system – 16 photovoltaic panels ...

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MARVIN – Charlotte’s Raley Miller Properties wants to develop a 245,000-square-foot shopping center on 28 acres at Rea and Tom Short roads, according to documents on file with the village of Marvin Planning Department. The project, which goes to the ...

LANCASTER, S.C. – A group of Lancaster firefighters manning the door Monday night at the Lancaster County Council meeting chambers passed out red-and-black numbered squares of construction paper at the council’s meeting because: There was a fundraising raffle that night. ...

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CHARLOTTE – The Mecklenburg County Code Enforcement agency does a good job reviewing building plans, issuing building permits and inspecting construction projects. But it also doesn’t. Two sets of customer feedback – from contractors, developers, architects, engineers and others who ...

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