A representative from GoodSports Enterprises, which is seeking taxpayer funds to develop a sports complex near Bojangles’ Coliseum, declined to name the source of the company’s financing for the proposed $76.7 million venture at a meeting with city officials Wednesday. ...

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CHARLOTTE –Call Wendy Field one of the post-recessionary urban pioneers, a bellwether for what expert observers say is a slowly re-emerging trend in Charlotte multifamily development: Small for-sale town house projects – and even a few condo efforts – in ...

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CHARLOTTE – The Charlotte City Council on Monday night voted unanimously to extend for six months a fee-in-lieu program that allows developers to pay the city instead of installing stormwater mitigation measures on redevelopment sites. The post construction controls ordinance, ...

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CHARLOTTE – Sometimes it’s best not to ask. Like the rule about never asking a woman if she’s pregnant, perhaps it’s advisable never to ask an architect if a design is retro-inspired. But that’s just what Mayor Pro Tem Michael ...

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CHARLOTTE – With an empty chair and a blank nameplate at the heart of the City Council dais Monday, council members extended for one week the public task of choosing a new mayor. Mayor Pro Tem Michael Barnes said the ...

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CHARLOTTE – The contentious streetcar project, which Mayor Patrick Cannon said has now been in front of four mayors, last night got a boost when the City Council approved spending $12 million to advance the design of the $126 million ...

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CHARLOTTE – Just about every political leader – a certain Canadian mayor notwithstanding – works to be remembered for fixing issues for their constituents and leaving their jurisdiction a better place. Whether that’s solving the poverty problem, vanquishing corruption or ...

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Last week, in a 4-0 vote, the council’s public safety committee gave its support to the proposal, which calls for rental property owners to give the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department their contact information, including business and home addresses and phone numbers.

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Charlotte’s real estate community often cites three ordinances accused of making developing sites cumbersome and costly: the Urban Street Design Guidelines, the Post Construction Controls ordinance and the tree ordinance. Residential design standards for single-family homes in the city have ...

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The Charlotte City Council has decided to award $2.5 million, rather than $10 million, to the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, in a blow to the embattled tourism-booster group. The council is expected to vote July 25 on the remainder of ...

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