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Apple store coming to Birkdale Village
June 23. [Updated] Apple Insider, an online publication, and Bloomberg, the international financial and media company, have reported that Apple will open a store in Birkdale Village. Meanwhile, contractors have pulled permits for the new store which will open early next year Officials at North American Properties, the owners of Birkdale Village would not comment. […]
Novant Health has new chief medical officer
June 22. Novant Health has appointed Dr. Pam Oliver as executive vice president and chief medical officer, a position which has oversight of safety and quality as well as credentialing. Oliver has practiced at Novant Health WomanCare since 2005. She has also served in various leadership capacities at Novant Health, including as submarket leader for […]
Coffee-preneur opening 14th store in South End
June 20. Waterbean Coffee, the region’s largest locally owned specialty coffee shop, is opening its 14th store in the Charlotte region. Owner Tony Vo has already opened three locations this year. The new South End location at 1415 Vantage Park has the Uptown skyline as a backdrop. And, yes, there will be pastries. Vo, who […]
NC lands top honors for economic development—again
June 19. North Carolina has received Area Development magazine’s 2023 Platinum Shovel Award which recognizes states that went above and beyond the gold standard for investment and job creation. This is the second year in a row the state has received this honor, sharing the inaugural award in 2022 with Tennessee. North Carolina is the […]
NC jobless rate stays at 3.4%, lower than US
June 19. North Carolina’s unemployment rate stayed under the national rate in May, or 3.4 percent here, vs. 3.7 percent jobless nationwide. The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was was unchanged from April, while the national rate rose.3 percent. North Carolina’s unemployment rate was unchanged from a year ago. The number of people employed increased […]
Hot properties: Million-dollar deals
June 16. Recent home sales over $1 million. $2,730,000 Jeffrey Mandel to Mark Rice & Diane Schulz, 18805 Halyard Pointe Ln., Cornelius $2,600,000 Troy & Robin Pugh to Brian & Katherine Wright, 19216 Peninsula Shores Dr., Cornelius $2,035,000 Carolinas Properties to Christopher Senff, 18912 Peninsula Club Dr., Cornelius $1,465,000 Jennifer & Michael Rumble to Richard […]
NC ranks 24th among most racially equitable state economies
June 15. North Carolina scores right in the middle of a survey of State Economies with the Most Racial Equality, according to a new study from WalletHub. A recent study found that only 7 percent of managerial positions and 4-5 percent of senior managerial positions belong to black Americans, even though that demographic makes up […]
Restricting college tenure could hurt state economies
June 13. By Stephen Elliott | NC Newsline. North Carolina is among the states in which proposals to end academic tenure for university professors have been advanced. Daniel Brinks, who chairs the government department at the University of Texas at Austin, doesn’t usually have a tough time recruiting professors. After all, UT is one of […]
New development faces challenges in slow-growth era
NEWSMAKERS BREAKFAST | JUNE 22 Three Lake Norman leaders—a developer, a former Huntersville mayor and a sitting town commissioner in Cornelius—will discuss the state of development amidst the current climate in and around Lake Norman at a Newsmakers Breakfast June 22 at The Peninsula Club. The event features: John Aneralla, former mayor of Huntersville Colin Furcht, a current […]
New agent at Sotheby’s in Cornelius
June 12. Tammie Blake is a new agent at Premier Sotheby’s International in the Cornelius office.
