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CORNELIUS – Lynette Rinker, the former appointed mayor of Cornelius, decided not to actually run for the office last November so she could vie in May’s Republican primary for a chance to be the freshman N.C. House representative from District ...

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CORNELIUS – John R. Bradford III was as ripe a candidate for an On the Level interview as we’ve ever had. He owns Park Avenue Properties, which after only seven years is listed as the fifth-largest locally based residential real ...

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HUNTERSVILLE – Brian Jenest was in a hurry. On the Level was in a hurry. But traffic going north on Interstate 77 was in no hurry at all. So a 45-minute marathon interview Thursday afternoon with land architect and Davidson ...

Leigh Brown, CEO of the Leigh Brown & Associates Re/Max Executive residential firm, was recently named one of the top 100 Re/Max agents worldwide as well as making a Wall Street Journal top 250 real estate agents list. That’s why ...

CHARLOTTE – Sotheby’s man in Charlotte is resplendent, but in an understated way, a man of parts. The cufflinks Finley Hair wore the day On the Level met him are made from Scottish one-pound coins intricately enameled in a process ...

Matt Cochrane is one smart dude. We know this because although he majored in journalism and communications at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Cochrane got out of journalism after six months of writing sports. The senior asset ...

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MINT HILL – On the Level begs to differ. Bill Saint, president of Classica Homes, which in three years of existence has become one of Charlotte’s busiest luxury homebuilders, always turned us down. “I’m not interesting enough to interview,” Saint ...

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Her : “Blonde, super-curly, and she’s short,” said publicist Julianne McCollum of Yellow Duck Marketing. On the Level: Tall, bald and malnourished-looking. The Place: Rooster’s, Jim Noble’s nouvelle Southern bistro in SouthPark. Lunch at the bar: The banh mi, shared, ...

LANCASTER, S.C. – Eight syllables isn’t enough, people. Penelope G. Karagounis insists on the ninth. That syllable – “G.” – could easily stand for “Go, Greek girl.” At 23, after a two-year stint in the planning department in Pineville, where ...

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Henry Pharr III is a commercial real estate lawyer, which sounds about as exciting as, well, commercial real estate law. And with a name that ends with III, On the Level feared for the worst. But as so often happens, ...

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