Business
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 […]
Temporary Restraining Order stalls; I-77 work begins at 10 pm
Nov 16. By Dave Yochum. Sen. Jeff Tarte over the weekend said there was no forward motion in getting a Temporary Restraining Order in time to stop construction of the I-77 toll lanes which begins at 10 pm. Tarte huddled with other members of the I-77 Business Plan—a group of key anti-toll business and political leaders—and two […]
Governor to LKN: Drop Dead
Nov. 13. UPDATED. By Dave Yochum. Although four North Carolina legislators have called on the governor to exercise the termination provisions in NCDOT’s I-77 contract with Cintra, a Spanish company, Pat McCrory is sticking to his guns. Within an hour after the four said they will seek a temporary restraining order to stop the project, McCrory’s NCDOT […]
