Business
CRTPO vote galvanized LKN opposition to tolls
Jan. 22. You might call it Pyrrhic victory, one that causes as much harm to the winner as it does to those who appear to have been defeated. The Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization did just as expected last night, voting 50-12, based on a weighted voting system, to approve the concept of managed lanes […]
Coffee entrepreneurs steeped in careful attention to service, costs, atmosphere
By Dave Vieser. If you like to start your day with a cup of coffee—or four or five—locally owned coffee shops abound in Cornelius. Waterbean is the entrepreneurs’ meeting hang-out, Charlie’s Coffeehouse has business networking meetings, Davidson-based Summit Coffee has opened a roasting operation here and What the Cup is expected to open in the old […]
LKN Chamber gala spoke volumes
There was a big turnout—200 people—for the Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce annual gala Friday night at The Peninsula Club. What the attendees heard and saw was an apparently unified business organization ready to do battle with Gov. Pat McCrory and the Charlotte Chamber. RELATED: Powerpoint presentation on the Lake Norman Chamber’s 2015 awards Plenty happened Friday night: Outgoing […]
Postmaster addresses growth and challenges in Cornelius
By Dave Yochum. It’s the December “busy season” at the U.S. Post Office on Liverpool, where Gladys Torres runs the operation. She’s the postmistress for the Zip Code we all know by heart: 28031. The package volume after Thanksgiving literally quadruples, said Torres who grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. On the job a total of 24 […]
You say you want a revolution
By Dave Yochum. “Target Acquired.” That’s the subject line on a recent email that race team executive Greg Wallace sent to his cohorts in the I-77 Business Plan, a high-level group of mostly Cornelius business leaders who are fighting the 50-year contract the NCDOT has inked with Cintra, a unit of Ferrovial. A room at the […]
After toll summit, Cornelius, Davidson mayors outline success of managed lanes in Texas
Nov. 24. NC Rep. Charles Jeter will file a bill in the legislature that would cut Charlotte’s virtually insurmountable 46 percent weighted vote on the Charlotte Regional Transportation Organization to no more than 37.5 percent. Meanwhile, after a fact-finding trip to visit managed lane projects in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, the mayors of Cornelius and […]
MacLean Curtis moving plant from Cornelius to Mooresville
Nov. 20. The Curtis Screw plant, a mainstay in the Cornelius manufacturing scene for decades, will build a 97,000 square foot plant on 24 acres in Mooresville Business Park East. The new plant will be worth on the order of $30 million, and employ as many as 150 people full-time. John O’Neill, general manager of what’s now called MacLean Curtis, […]
Fantastic growth at FantasyDraft in Cornelius
By Dave Friedman. The Carolina Panthers are off to their best start in franchise history. Watch them play on TV, and what you see even more of than Cam Newton are commercials for Draft Kings and Fan Duel. The two biggest players in the growing Daily Fantasy Sports business spent more than $200 million on commercials […]
The Teeter won’t be ready for Turkey Day
Andy Bruce, a bagger at the Old Jetton Road store, will move to the Antiquity location Nov. 18. The 53,000-square foot Harris Teeter in Antiquity Town Center will open 8 am Wednesday, Dec. 2. Harris Teeter’s second location in Cornelius is the anchor of the new shopping center which includes 28,000 square feet of additional retail. It’s […]
It’s going to be all new at Antiquity when shopping opens in November
By Dave Vieser. The retail development at Antiquity, just east of Highway 115, continues to attract more new tenants to fill the 28,000 square feet set aside for smaller retailers. The development has nine retailers, and more coming. This is all in addition to the new anchor store, a 53,000 square foot Harris Teeter. “So far […]
