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The share of homes that were bought with cash in the Charlotte area fell 2.7 percentage points in June from a year earlier, according to real estate information and analytics provider CoreLogic. Cash sales in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia area accounted for ...

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Charlotte-based developers Crosland Southeast and Childress Klein have signed three new tenants for the Waverly development. ULTA Beauty, the country’s largest cosmetics retailer, will lease 11,000 square feet in the 90-acre development near the intersection of Providence and Ardrey Kell ...

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The Wesley Chapel Village Council will hold two public hearings Oct. 12 on zoning ordinance changes it hopes will satisfy potential developers and the owners of about 70 parcels who have requested that their land be de-annexed from the city. ...

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CHARLOTTE — The City Council on Monday denied a rezoning petition for a large mixed-use project in the Cherry neighborhood and deferred a decision on a smaller single-family residential development in Plaza Midwood. But the council approved several projects at ...

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For a man operating under tight deadlines, George Hite doesn’t appear the least bit anxious. He strides through the vast corridors of Bojangles’ Coliseum as if in his second home, stopping occasionally to direct a lost patron, shake hands, or ...

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The Charlotte Area Transit System has received a $180 million federal loan for construction of the LYNX Blue Line light rail extension. The loan comes from the federal Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act program which allots funds for transportation ...

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While apartment construction in the Charlotte area is continuing at breakneck speed, demand for apartments remains strong and the vacancy rate is at a healthy 5.7 percent. While that may be good news for developers and investors, local leaseholders are ...

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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission was encouraged last week to be more active in helping to shape future development of one of the nation’s fastest-growing cities. “The reason you exist is to determine what is right for the community at this ...

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Locally owned software company AvidXchange Inc. broke ground Monday on its new “state-of-the-art” corporate campus north of uptown and announced it had closed on a $225 million investment led by Bain Capital Ventures. AvidXchange said it will use the funding ...

CHARLOTTE – The final phase of the Easton Park luxury townhome development at Colony and Carmel roads is now for sale. Easton Park celebrated its grand opening in October 2014.  Charlotte-based Copper Builders is constructing the custom townhomes, which are ...