It seems like just weeks ago we were putting out our ’13 to watch in 2013’ series, previewing the area’s development for this outgoing year. But, alas, 2013 has come and gone, and 2014 is knocking on the door. But ...
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MATTHEWS – As Christmas approaches, attention naturally turns to evergreens, be they natural or fake. This year in Matthews, some of that attention has been diverted to one particular proposed fake pine, and it wouldn’t be in the corner of ...
Tagged with: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Matthews
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CHARLOTTE – Julie Porter has spoken to teachers and nurses’ aides who live as far away as Gastonia and Stanly and commute to south Charlotte daily. Porter, the president of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Housing Partnership, said they can’t afford housing near ...
Tagged with: American Community Survey Census Bureau Charlotte-Mecklenburg Housing Partnership Julie Porter UNC Charlotte Weddington Road
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CHARLOTTE – The Charlotte City Council will have a busy meeting Feb. 17, when it is set to hold public hearings on 17 rezoning petitions. In the latest round of rezoning requests, petitions were submitted for a variety of uses, ...
Tagged with: Charlotte city council New Carolina Income Properties
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CHARLOTTE – A 40-acre piece of land in a desirable location in the University area – close to both an interstate and future public transportation – is to become an auto mall following a unanimous City Council rezoning decision Monday ...
Tagged with: Charlotte city council John Autry Lynx Blue Line Walter Fields Walter Fields Group
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CORNELIUS – The Bailey-Mayes roads area has developed into a real development sore spot. The dilemma posed by growth in the small chunk of east Cornelius for the third time held up passage of a new proposed land-use plan when ...
Tagged with: bailey road Cornelius Board of Commissioners david gilroy John Bradford
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The pressures of commercial development around Rock Hill’s efforts to revitalize its urban core may force the city to demolish a historic building on Main Street. On Dec. 12, Rock Hill’s board of historic review voted to remove the historic ...
Tagged with: knowledge park rock hill S.C.
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HUNTERSVILLE – The protestors who live in the partly dilapidated neighborhood that a church-affiliated group wants to help showed up at a Board of Commissioners meeting Monday to say they don’t want the kind of help the nonprofit group wants ...
Tagged with: Huntersville Board of Commissioners Huntington Green Jack Simoneau Jill Swain One More Neighborhood sarah mcauley
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CHARLOTTE – More than 100 people crowded into a church office building to question officials about the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Housing Partnership’s plan to rezone a 7-acre parcel from a child care facility to an apartment complex for low-income housing, a proposal ...
Tagged with: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Housing Partnership Jeff Brown Julie Porter Moore & Van Allen public meeting Weddington Road
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MONROE – A new 20-mile toll road is still the best option for relieving traffic congestion along U.S. 74 in Union County, according to a revised report issued recently by federal and state highway officials. The N.C. Department of Transportation ...
Tagged with: Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization Mecklenburg Union Metropolitan Planning Organization Monroe Bypass N.C. Department of Transportation Southern Environmental Law Center Union County
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