CHARLOTTE – The $300 million plan to bring a movie studio complex to Eastland Mall, two years in the making, is hanging on by the tiniest string of the thinnest thread after last week’s meeting of the City Council Economic ...

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Charlotte-based ARK Ventures, which developed the N.C. Music Factory, on Tuesday informed the city that the company no longer wished to be considered for the planned redevelopment of the former mall on Central Avenue.

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In his latest deal, Lazes in the hunt for the rights to refurbish and run the old Carolina Theatre on North Tryon Street, which pits him against the powerful, button-down Foundation for the Carolinas.

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Now in round three, the bidding war for two historic NoDa mills will go into round four if companies file upset bids Monday to redevelop the properties. The Community Builders Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based affordable-housing developer, put in a $1.02 ...

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The Comedy Zone is the largest comedy club network in the U.S. It is based it Charlotte, but there hasn’t been a Charlotte location since 2007. That’s about to change. In the spring, The Comedy Zone will open a new, ...

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