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MATTHEWS – Developer Mel Graham wants to build nearly 100 densely arranged town homes on 16.4 acres near central Matthews that would be marketed to empty nesters but would not be age-restricted. The development, according to a rezoning application recently ...

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CHARLOTTE – The $300 million plan to bring a movie studio complex to Eastland Mall, two years in the making, is hanging on by the tiniest string of the thinnest thread after last week’s meeting of the City Council Economic ...

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CHARLOTTE – The city’s Economic Development and Global Competitiveness Committee will meet Thursday to hear an updated presentation from Studio Charlotte Development on the company’s plans for the former Eastland Mall site. On Oct. 1, the city entered into a ...

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CHARLOTTE – Retail developers in the early 2000s were on a mission, according to Darrell Palasciano, a broker with The Shopping Center Group: Who could build the most and biggest box stores in power centers? Now those power centers are ...

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CHARLOTTE – The Bissell Cos. has received engineering approval for property on which it has announced plans to build an 11-story office tower, leaving only one step remaining before the company would be allowed to start construction. Bissell, the local ...

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CHARLOTTE – A look at the city’s office-market statistics would indicate that the market has improved by a solid measure since the depths of the recession. Office vacancies at the end of 2013 were 14.8 percent, down 3.8 percentage points ...

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CHARLOTTE – As 2013 has rolled into 2014, the data heads over at Karnes Co., a local analytics firm that keeps tabs on the city’s commercial real estate markets, have been on task collecting in-depth information about the office, industrial ...

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Wall Street is at it again, slicing and dicing securities, hoping to sell pieces of the pie to investors hungry for better returns. But instead of offering investors bonds backed by mortgages, private equity firms are looking at new financial ...

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INDIAN LAND – Two homeowners in the state-line straddling Bridgehampton subdivision dialed 911 to report a prowler. Sirens wailing, five Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department cars converged on the home of one of the callers within minutes. A quarter of an hour ...

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 CHARLOTTE – Eric Renninger left N.C. just in time to miss both our recent bouts with winter weather. Renninger, the recently named region developer for Honest-1 Auto Care in Charlotte and the surrounding area, has been out west at the ...

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