CHARLOTTE – The City Council on Monday unanimously approved the sale of an uptown tract of land, part of a multiparcel sell-off to retire debt on the NASCAR Hall of Fame, and awarded more than $664,000 to a company working ...

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CHARLOTTE – The City Council voted 10-1 Monday night in favor of paying Bank of America and Wells Fargo a total of $5 million in exchange for the two banks writing off $14.1 million in principal and an estimated $3.5 ...

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CHARLOTTE –The architects and designers behind Charlotte landmarks the NASCAR Hall of Fame and UNC Charlotte’s Prospector Hall are parting company. Charlotte-based Tobin Starr and Partners have split into independent practices, Starr Design and Tobin PLLC. For the past 14 ...

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Chiquita Brands International ended months of speculation today when it announced that it will relocate its worldwide headquarters to Charlotte from Cincinnati. It’s new home: NASCAR Plaza, built in 1999 and, according to a March Mecklenburg Times story, featuring a ...

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Jim Schumacher, an assistant Charlotte city manager who played a role in integrating the expansion of the Convention Center with the NASCAR Hall of Fame and a 19-story office tower, is retiring Jan. 1. Schumacher has worked for the city’s Engineering ...

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Darrell Boyette’s cigar shop, Tinderbox, is in Overstreet Mall, a collection of stores inside some of uptown’s high-rise buildings. It’s Tinderbox’s smallest location, and Boyette, the general manager, sees 80 to 100 customers every day at the store, which he ...

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Already falling well short of attendance and revenue projections, the NASCAR Hall of Fame was dealt a blow in January when the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority sliced the hall’s budget by $4.7 million. Part of the cuts included an $826,292 ...

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Bruce Stewart was expecting more. When the NASCAR Hall of Fame opened nearly a year ago, he thought business at his diner, Lola’s, would hit the gas pedal. After all, Lola’s, on South Brevard Street, is across the street from ...

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Charlotte is just weeks away from celebrating the NASCAR Hall of Fame’s first birthday May 11. But it remains to be seen whether the more than $190 million project is being hamstrung by the recession or is one of the ...

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The NASCAR Hall of Fame’s security system will be in the spotlight when the Electronic Security Expo comes to Charlotte this summer. ESE attendees will learn about the system’s design and life-safety systems. The tour is scheduled for June 7.

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