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One of Florida's leading education reformers calls for an end to the public school monopoly. For more than ten years, leading members of Florida's business community have worked with increasing [...]

In October 1990, Interstate/Johnson Lane Inc.'s stock price was at an all-time low. Employee morale wasn't far behind. Jim Morgan, the Charlotte-based stock brokerage's chief executive, saw only one solution: [...]

When Los Angeles-based Lowe Enterprises bought troubled Guest Quarters Suite Hotel last year, the company touted a planned $1 million renovation of the property. But the Morrison Boulevard hotel's most [...]

Burt Gellman, ponytail flowing, a crumble of papers at his side, sat across from me waving his arms as he described his vision for the North Tryon corridor. It was [...]

Firethorne Country Club presents the region's toughest challenge Take Charlotte's toughest golf course, three double-digit handicappers, the back tees and throw them together. The result? Cursing. I remember a great [...]

Courses in Lincoln, Cabarrus and York offer plenty of risk and reward More than half of the 15 new golf courses developed in the Charlotte area in the past five [...]

Broadway & Seymour Inc., a technology services company based in Charlotte, NC, eliminated 14 jobs in human resources, facilities management and financial controls operations at its headquarters as part of an ongoing reorganization to improve efficiency of the company. The job eliminations were made possible by effecting some moves that include employing new technology to improve efficiency of financial controls and outsourcing some facilities. Broadway & Seymour's dismissed workers will get severance package for an undisclosed value. An outplacement agency has been appointed to assist dismissed workers find jobs locally.

T. Rowe Price Associates Inc., a Baltimore-based investment services company, is considering Charlotte or Tampa for a new office that eventually would employ 400 people. The 47-year-old company is expected [...]

The battle for retail development in University City has become a standoff between city planning and power politics. And the team of John Crosland Jr. and the University of North [...]

Economic developers say state must offer industry more incentives When Hickory-based Baker Heritage Inc. was trying to find a site for a new plant last year, the N.C. General Assembly [...]

Where's the best place to work out in uptown Charlotte? Three months ago, the answer was simple: The Uptown YMCA. After all, it was your only option. But with the [...]

By the end of 1993, Charlotte's real estate industry likely will be able to look back and see the hole from which it just crawled. Vacancy rates across the city [...]

Merchants along North Tryon Street between Sugar Creek Road and W.T. Harris Boulevard have battled crime problems and a seedy image for years. Soon they'll have to contend with a [...]

Carl Scheer wipes off about a year's worth of dust from the old, wooden stadium seat, sits down and surveys the cavernous interior of an empty Independence Arena. The temperature [...]

Todd Shomaker points across the water to a brightly colored coral reef. Two neon fish glide by in the currents. Key West? Bermuda? Hawaii? Try South Boulevard. Tucked in the [...]

Westmoreland Coal has been in Phila. since 1854 As part of a broad restructuring, a Philadelphia-based coal company is moving its corporate headquarters to Charlotte in June. Westmoreland Coal Co., [...]

A Dec. 22 deadline to raise $3.6 million in cash looms ahead of the group trying to build a sports complex in Cabarrus County. S2 Concepts LP, which recently announced [...]

Walter Fields III, land development manager for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission, wields considerable power when it comes to determining how Charlotte will grow. When Walter Fields looks out his eighth-floor [...]

Charlotte's real estate market progressed down the long road to recovery in the third quarter -- at a crawl. 'The news is better in some cases,' says real estate analyst [...]

Bank mounts campaign to manage pro athletes' money NationsBank Corp. is headed into a new market in a major league way. The bank is launching a unit to manage pro [...]

The recovery of home sales in Mecklenburg County in 1992 seems to leave the area poised for a surge of residential construction in the next two years. But there may [...]

Barrett Klutts runs Charlotte's largest private homebuilding company -- a business long reliant on bank financing to fuel its growth. As Charlotte grew into one of the country's major banking [...]

Like an ocean tide slowly rising over a beach, development of every kind has swept over southern Mecklenburg County in the past decade. 'It's just a matter of growth building [...]

Philip Shive has studied under and worked with some of the best-known and most-acclaimed architects of the 20th century. He learned his craft in the vibrant offices of I.M. Pei [...]

During the past two years, a proposed southwest Mecklenburg County retail and residential development has been scaled back, reshaped and rethought to quell neighbors' concerns. The project's developers will find [...]

The battle for dominance of the retail market in University City will soon go public as two developers seek approval from Charlotte City Council for massive shopping centers. The Crosland [...]

Cityfair will remain closed indefinitely while the owner embarks on its third marketing strategy in two years for the failed uptown retail center. Exactly when Oklahoma City-based American Fidelity Property [...]

The slump in the construction industry has made the battle for every building job tough, but many contractors are facing an added burden when they try to get a bond [...]

In 1977, Spiro Hondros' construction company was flirting with bankruptcy. But he persevered, established a relationship with Trammell Crow Co. and began building again. Today, S.C. Hondros & Associates Inc. [...]

When the city of Charlotte put up $35 million to secure land for a football stadium, the thinking was the city would either draw a pro football team or end [...]

Faison Associates, one of Charlotte's largest developers, has held discussions with one of the nation's most active retail developers about a possible merger, real estate sources say. However, Atlanta-based New [...]

Former Trammell Crow Co. partners Fred Klein Jr. and Don Childress have filed a $125 million lawsuit against Crow, claiming its directors conspired to swindle them out of millions of [...]

When county and school leaders talk about the proposed $15 million conversion of the former Ivey's building into an arts magnet school, they talk about 'synergy with other uptown assets' [...]

While Charlotte's commercial real estate market has slowed to a crawl, its brokers have been on the move. At least nine brokers left the city's top 25 commercial firms over [...]

Less than a year and a half ago, one of the biggest special events in Charlotte's history was planned without involvement from the black business community. Minority membership in the [...]

For residential developers, University City has been a field of dreams. Developers keep building and buyers keep coming. Ten years ago, the area accounted for less than 5 percent of [...]

The future of University City retail development has arrived. Now, if someone could just figure out where to put it. Every major discount retailer wants a megastore in University City, [...]

When John Collett left CB Commercial Real Estate Group Inc. in 1987 to open his own firm, he was best known in real estate circles as the guy with family [...]

A young, skilled work force is the key to the construction industry's future. And the future may be passing the industry by. 'We are very concerned that our work force [...]

If NFL officials watch the videotape of Wednesday's pep rally the city is sending to league offices, they'll get a good look at corporate Charlotte. The people, not the buildings. [...]

It was 1956 and Bill Beall Sr. was working as a high school assistant coach when he discovered something that would change his life: High school sports programs expected their [...]

North Carolina governor Bev Perdue says that the state is at nearly 11% unemployment. Perdue adds that the current recession is unlike the past ones because the lines at unemployment offices include those with Ph.D.s and those from the finance sector. Perdue's views on incentives and business taxes are also presented.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Mercedes-Benz has narrowed its search for a U.S. production facility to a handful of sites, including one in North Carolina, say high-placed sources in the recruitment process. [...]

Six months after signing on, the Carolinas Partnership computer system linking economic development offices in the 13-county Charlotte region is still limited. So far, the main link among the counties [...]

When U.S. Fidelity & Guaranty Insurance Co. started reviewing the lease on its SouthPark office last year, the company considered the prestige, convenience and amenities the area offered. And it [...]

If a local corporation gets its name on Charlotte's proposed NFL stadium, will it have a valuable marketing tool or a $50 million billboard? The answer depends on which company [...]

University City hasn't escaped the troubles of Charlotte's commercial market, but it's surviving them with much better prospects for new development. The tight money and high vacancy rates that plague [...]