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More expensive software may not yield more answers
CHARLOTTE – Mecklenburg County officials are looking at a proposal to spend $50,000 in upfront costs and $10,000 annually to replace $500-a-year software that models the economic benefits and drawbacks […]
County OK’s $317.7 million in capital expenditures through fiscal 2018
CHARLOTTE – The Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners gave final approval Tuesday night for $317.7 million in capital projects that were initially presented to the board last summer. The capital […]
Moving on up
The moving trucks just keep on rolling to Charlotte. New data released by the U.S. Census Bureau showed that Mecklenburg County was the second-fastest growing area in North Carolina, after […]
D.R. Horton led the homebuilding pack in 2013
CHARLOTTE – A pair of production homebuilding corporations were joined by a fast-growing local residential construction company in leading a 2013 surge in Mecklenburg County building permits. After a neck-in-Meck […]
D.R. Horton or M/I Homes? M/I Homes or D.R. Horton? It’s a tie
With one month to go in 2013, D.R. Horton and M/I Homes are for all practical purposes tied in the Mecklenburg County homebuilder of the year race. As of Nov. […]
SBA loan filing deadline approaching
The U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most private non-profit organizations of all sizes that Sept. 23 is the filing deadline for federal economic injury disaster loans available in Mecklenburg and Union counties as a result of drought between Nov. 15, 2012, and Jan. 21, 2013.
SBA loan deadline approaching
The U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most private non-profit organizations of all sizes that Sept. 23 is the filing deadline for federal economic injury disaster loans available in Mecklenburg and Union counties as a result of drought between Nov. 15, 2012, and Jan. 21, 2013.
Number of homebuilding permits highest since 2008
Despite the wettest late spring-early summer in recent memory, the Charlotte-area boomlet in residential construction that started in January continued apace, according to building permit records kept by Mecklenburg County Code Enforcement.
City Council approves extension on Marshall Park deadline
The City Council on Monday night voted to give Mecklenburg County another couple of months to find a buyer for Marshall Park, further convoluting the future of the property in uptown's 2nd Ward.
Renovation Report: St. Mary’s Chapel
St. Mary's Chapel hosts a lot of weddings. A LOT of weddings. But for at least a month, early in the new year, St. Mary's won't be home to much matrimonial bliss.
Meck 2012 homebuilding already over 2011 levels
According to just-released, year-to-date data compiled by the Home Builders Association of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County had issued 1,911 building permits worth $300.5 million as of Oct. 31 for the benchmark single-family detached house.
Revaluation review: Major errors made by assessors
Pearson’s representative Emmett Curl said he thought the revaluation would not have devolved into a debacle if the county’s informal appeals process for disputed values were more “customer-friendly.”
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