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Ed McKinney moved to Charlotte a year and a half ago to take the job of assistant planning director for the city of Charlotte. His previous role as a consultant for a design and engineering firm in Atlanta had him ...

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Charles Lindsey McAlpine, who goes by Lindsey, knew from a young age that he wanted to be a real estate developer, starting his first brokerage while still a student at UNC Charlotte in the late 1980s. His companies and projects ...

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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 of Keller Williams Real Estate, has been pinned a few ...

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 Charlotte property management firms, you rented from T.R. Lawing. Today ...

Tagged with: North Carolina Real Estate Commission Tommy Lawing

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 — 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 ...

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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CHARLOTTE – David Botsko is a double agent. For 27 years, Botsko was a federal investigator. After he “retired,” he put in 11 years running the fraud investigation arm of Arizona’s Medicaid agency. Now, at 67, after “retiring” again, in ...

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 – Kevin McClave had a twin emergency last week but lived to tell his tale. McClave, as fresh faced as his freshly minted new title – principal and sales division manager at Henderson Properties – was supposed to show ...

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