Business
Review of Marketing the Moon
Marketing and PR experts David Meerman Scott and Richard Jurek’s beautifully produced case history of the selling of America’s Apollo space program is an anecdotal guide to promoting an industry. Scientist Wernher von Braun, a major figure behind Apollo, said, “Without public relations…we would have been unable to do it.” This is a coffee table […]
Home prices strengthen; what a difference a view makes
High-end home prices in Denver are benefitting from “much-improved highway access to Charlotte. “The Denver area with it’s newly widened highway and improving amenities has posted five straight quarters that exceeded the comparable prior-year quarter,” says Reed Jackson, managing partner of Ivester-Jackson Distinctive Properties in Cornelius. A major change in this year’s luxury home sales […]
LKN businesses en route to Raleigh with 300 no-toll signatures
June 30. Lake Norman power hitters like Chamber Chair Mike Russell, commercial real estate broker Tom McMahon, former Chamber Chair John Hettwer, racing executive Greg Wallace and bankers Tom Dutton and Jim Engel are on their way to Raleigh to express profound and deep-rooted opposition to the NCDOT plan to widen I-77 with toll lanes […]
LKN business leaders bus to Raleigh Tuesday to oppose toll plan
June 29. Lake Norman-area business leaders, ranging from bankers and racing executives to commercial real estate brokers and manufacturers, will travel by bus to the North Carolina State Capitol tomorrow to visibly join the fight against the public-private partnership that would widen I-77 with toll lanes. “I intend to call out that the NCDOT has […]
CommunityOne completes Certus acquisition in Lenoir
June 28. CommunityOne Bank has completed its purchase of the Lenoir Branch of CertusBank. As part of this transaction, the bank assumed the customer deposits from both the Lenoir and Granite Falls branches of the troubled bank. The purchase expands CommunityOne’s network to 12 branches in the Caldwell and Catawba areas. It is the second […]
Kannapolis signs final purchase agreements for downtown real estate
June 28. Kannapolis City Council members have finalized the purchase agreements for properties located in the downtown area, including property controlled by David Murdock. The City has purchased land and buildings for $7,550,000 from Castle & Cooke and Atlantic American Properties Inc. The City is also purchasing K-Town Furniture from the Uwharrie Bank for $875,000 and […]
Aquesta names City Executive for Concord
June 26. Aquesta Bank has recruited commercial banker Michelle Riley from Bank of North Carolina to be the Concord City Executive for the Cornelius-based bank. “It’s a very attractive market; there are quite a few businesses that are looking to expand there,” said Aquesta CEO Jim Engel. “This [a commercial loan production effort] is a […]
Memo to LKN Chamber: ‘NCDOT is simply delivering the project requested by local authorities’
In advance of the Lake Norman Chamber’s board meeting, the NCDOT Undersecretary Nick Tennyson outlined some of the ramifications of cancelling the $650 million contract with I-77 Mobility/Cintra/Ferrovial and opting for a general-purpose lanes project instead. As a former chamber [of commerce] executive, I know that your organization has a wide range of business and […]
PRESS RELEASE: Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce urges State to cancel Toll Road Contract
Cornelius, NC June 23, 2015 – The Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors voted Monday, June 22nd to respectfully request that the contract between the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) and I-77 Mobility Partners be terminated as soon as reasonably possible and that an alternative source of funding be secured to widen I-77 in the […]
LKN Chamber will come out against toll lanes
June 23. By Dave Yochum. The Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce will officially come out against the plan to widen I-77 with toll lanes and a 50-year contract with a company whose roots are in Spain. The chamber’s resolution, passed by its board of directors last night, requests that the contract with I-77 Mobility Partners be […]
