Legacy Real Estate Advisors has acquired property at 4237 Raleigh Street in the NoDa area, a 33,000-square-foot warehouse at the Sugar Creek Lynx Blue Line (light rail) station for $5,000,000. Legacy’s Greg Godley and Andrew Blumenthal represented the Buyers, who ...

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Charlotte will have to spend nearly an additional $1 million to expand light rail line platforms to handle longer trains. The construction to allow three-car Lynx trains instead of two-car trains was supposed to finish in September. The ...

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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 ...

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CHARLOTTE – Somewhat lost in the apartment boom in South End, where developers are putting up thousands of units across the neighborhood, has been talk about the commercial development that will surely accompany all those multifamily units. The South End ...

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In 2001, the city made a policy suggesting that of all apartment units within a half mile – walking distance – of public transit stations, 20 percent should be subsidized and available to those making no more than 60 percent of the area median income. But in the years since the light rail began stopping at the four main stations in South End – Bland Street, Carson Street, East/West and New Bern – developers haven’t lived up to the city’s hope.

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CHARLOTTE – When the city’s light rail trains finally crawl north by 2017, planning officials are hoping there will be a park-and-ride station at J.W. Clay Boulevard, the proposed second-to-last stop. That’s the goal of a rezoning petition filed by ...

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Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx addressed the budget challenges he expects in 2011 and his plans to deal with them in a media briefing Friday morning. In the first quarter of 2011, Foxx said he plans to have a conversation among ...

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Although cutting or scaling back the right of way project along North Tryon Street would save $45 million, the Charlotte Area Transit System has decided to preserve those improvements. Such projects involve incorporating bike lanes in the roads, adding or ...

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Faced with a $1.15 billion deficit between 2010 and 2035 rather than the $1.6 billion surplus projected in 2006, the Charlotte Area Transit System proposed Wednesday night to cut the Lynx Blue Line Extension project, ending the line at the ...

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The decision by the Metropolitan Transit Commission and the Charlotte Area Transit System to scale back the planned Lynx Blue Line Extension has Noel Smith concerned. President of North End Development Partners, an economic development advocacy group for the North ...

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