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HUNTERSVILLE – It’s been a long trek for Jay Priester, vice president for development and leasing at Cambridge Properties, but the finish line – or at least the first finish line – is finally in sight. The first store in ...

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CHARLOTTE – There’s a Jaguar in the parking lot of Wanda Smith & Associates Realtors, a Rolex Yachtsman on the arm of owner Tony Smith, and a couple of valuable vintage Rolexes in a drawer back at home. But don’t ...

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CHARLOTTE – They stand as bright beacons on the corner of Sweetbriar Street and The Plaza. Three pristine Craftsman-style homes painted in vibrant red and blue, conspicuous amid some shabby neighbors on the fringes of NoDa. Builder Brian Alenky, president ...

CHARLOTTE – “Sometimes,” as three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee put it, “it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.” Tell that to Lee Cochran, vice president of ...

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CHARLOTTE – Some good PR people don’t like marketing themselves; they’re all about their clients. So it took about two months of cajoling, hounding, and email-stalking – everything short of blackmailing – before On the Level landed Julianne McCollum, whose ...

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CHARLOTTE – In September of last year, Dan Morrill thought he may have to face one of the toughest parts of his job. The historic G.G. Galloway House, at 602 E. Morehead St., was facing a possible demolition, after its ...

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BAXTER VILLAGE, S.C. – The first surprise for Mary Ludemann was that the remodeling job got the attention of Better Homes and Gardens’ Kitchen and Bath Makeovers in the first place. The second was that the kitchen chosen was not ...

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CHARLOTTE – Before the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department opened its new Eastway Division headquarters on Central Avenue, police in the East Side precinct were working out of a strip mall. And the city’s code enforcement team was working elsewhere in ...

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CHARLOTTE – Used to be, not that long ago, that you could just call Dan Clodfelter. If the Democratic District 37 state senator from Charlotte didn’t pick up, he’d generally call back and take a reporter’s question. But now that ...

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CHARLOTTE – When Doug Shipley first looked out over what would become the playing fields at the soon-to-open Rugby Athletic Center, this is what he saw. “It was a jungle,” said Shipley, director of development and operations at the RAC. ...