Mecklenburg Times: News for Mecklenburg, Union and Iredell counties Real Estate, Development, Construction, and Community News in the Charlotte area and throughout Mecklenburg, Union and Iredell counties

Call it the HGTV effect. Home buyers have high expectations when it comes to a new home. You have to grab them in the first seven to 10 seconds or they move on.

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City officials have begun looking at possible alternative options for funding its Gold Line streetcar expansion project, but have not given up on receiving a federal grant. Last week, the U.S. Department of Transportation handed down the list of recipients of $474 million in federal money for transportation projects nationwide.

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The future is now on view – both on iPad touchscreens and in good old-fashioned steel, concrete and dirt – at Morrocroft, the mixed-use office/business/retail park. That’s where Carolinas HealthCare System’s Facilities Management Group, BBH Design architects, Brasfield & Gorrie General Contractors and Mecklenburg County Code Enforcement are collaborating in a virtual, three-dimensional cloud to build a new emergency department at the Carolinas Medical Center-Morrocroft health care pavilion.

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Phil Henderson, 50, likes to play dumb like a possum likes to play dead, and he has parlayed the naïve act – plus a double-major degree from Appalachian State in marketing and business management – into a booming business with an office out by Independence Expressway: Henderson Properties, about which we’ll let the country boy explain later.

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Heavy precipitation has left contractors and developers in the area wringing out their plans and looking for ways to get back on schedule. This summer, the Piedmont of the Carolinas has seen between 150 and 200 percent of its typical rainfall

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Community in Christ Lutheran Church, which dominates the corner of Sam Furr and Catawba, has needed additional space for close to eight years, and a new sanctuary building will be risen over the next eight or nine months

With the purchase of the Southborough building on South Boulevard, Charlotte-based Beacon Partners, a commercial real estate firm, has increased its presence in the Midtown office submarket to more than 200,000 square feet.

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The Charlotte Knights are set to play their final six home games at their South Carolina stadium before moving into their downtown park in 2014.

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The U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most private non-profit organizations of all sizes that Sept. 23 is the filing deadline for federal economic injury disaster loans available in Mecklenburg and Union counties as a result of drought between Nov. 15, 2012, and Jan. 21, 2013.

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Morgan Property Group LLC has announced the acquisition of two properties for the development of new freestanding 7-Eleven stores, in Virginia Beach and Richmond, Va.

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