Charlotte continues to rank as one of the lowest cost-of-living metro areas in the nation. Newly released data from the Council for Community and Economic Research show it costs 95.9 percent less than the national average to live in the ...

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The first three quarters of 2016 showed more mixed signals for Mecklenburg County’s private sector. During the first nine months of 2016, 755 businesses invested $760 million to create 6,517 new jobs and expand or improve 7.5 million square feet ...

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The Charlotte Chamber unveiled the results of its annual BusinessFirst survey on Wednesday – and topping the list of items concerning businesses was the permitting and plan review process in Mecklenburg County. But this wasn’t a surprise to Chamber President ...

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Local and state transportation officials advanced the cause for adding 26 miles of toll roads along Interstate 77 at a Friday luncheon sponsored by the Charlotte Chamber. Some 50 attendees came to the event, dubbed “Toll Lanes on Charlotte Highways: ...

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While the rapid growth of apartments in the Charlotte region has some industry professionals concerned that vacancy rates could rise in the near future, they believe job growth and projected population growth will fill the supply in the long run. ...

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The Charlotte Region Commercial Board of Realtors recognized four of its members and the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce with awards at its annual meeting on Dec. 4 at the Quail Hollow Club. Ruth Roper, vice president of strategy and business ...

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Two of the nation’s busiest submarkets for apartment development since 2012 are in the Charlotte area, including Uptown/South End and Mooresville. Uptown/South End ranked first and Mooresville fifth, according to a recent report released by MPF Research in Texas. MPF ...

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Mecklenburg County has dropped its plan to expand a mandatory recycling program that would have included construction sites for single-family residential, commercial and multifamily projects. Last year, an advisory committee recommended changes to the existing source separation ordinance, or SSO, that ...

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Mecklenburg County Code Enforcement, the government agency that reviews construction plans and inspects projects, has itself come under the review and inspection of Dena Diorio, county manager. The Real Estate and Building Industry Coalition, the Charlotte-based lobbying organization, implied it ...

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CHARLOTTE – The Queen City on Monday was named as one of the most affordable big cities in the U.S., according to a cost-of-living report done by the Council for Community and Economic Research and distributed by the most likely ...

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