The city of Charlotte, is now the nation’s 15th most populous city, surpassing San Francisco. Citing new census data, The Charlotte Observer reported Thursday that the city’s population jumped two spots in the past decade. Charlotte’s population rose 19.9%. It ...
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Read More »Deputy City Manager Ron Kimble announced that he will retire from the city effective Jan. 31. “We thank Ron for his invaluable leadership as well as the many successes he led and had a hand in during his time with ...
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Read More »The year was 2006, and the Michigan real estate market was slowly circling the bottom of the toilet. Around the country, real estate was booming, and seller’s markets abounded – or so I’d heard. There was no evidence of it ...
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Read More »John Howard, head of the Charlotte Historic District Commission, has been named the 2015 City of Charlotte Employee of the Year. Howard has worked for the city for 16 years, according to a release from the city. In this position ...
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The town of Pineville has opted not to renew a 30-year-old annexation agreement with the city of Charlotte meant to keep municipalities from fighting over unincorporated tracts in Mecklenburg County. As a result, Mecklenburg County is now resigned to officially ...
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Read More »The Charlotte metropolitan statistical area gained 2,500 construction jobs in the year ending in September, which amounted to a 6 percent increase, according to the Associated General Contractors of America. The Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, S.C., region ranked 106 out of 339 ...
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The Charlotte metro region ranks 425thout of 586 U.S. counties for buying residential rental properties, according to RealtyTrac’s Q3 2014 Residential Property Rental Report. RealtyTrac’s analysis found that investors buying U.S. residential property in the third quarter receive an average ...
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WASHINGTON – U.S. home prices in July increased at the slowest pace in 20 months, reflecting sluggish sales and a greater supply of houses for sale. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 6.7 percent in July from ...
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Read More »The Charlotte metro area experienced the fastest rate of growth in exports in the country, from 2012 to 2013, with exports growing by 69 percent. Strong exports of transportation equipment and machinery accounted for the increase, according to the U.S. ...
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Read More »RALEIGH — North Carolina business recruiters offered Toyota more than $100 million in incentives for the world’s largest carmaker to move its North American headquarters to Charlotte rather than a Dallas suburb, but still lost out to a Texas offer half that size. Only about ...
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