In the 1950s, the five-story brick Asheville Hotel in Asheville, North Carolina, started to fall into decline, presaging what would happen to most of the city’s downtown over the next couple of decades. A department store moved into the ground floor while everything above it sat empty. Then the building got one of those ugly […]
The rush to reach agreement on a city budget led to an awkward encounter between Mayor Anthony Foxx and Councilman Andy Dulin Thursday.
Mayor Foxx met with members of the media to outline the city’s capital needs.
Following the presentation, WBTV’s Melissa Hankins was interviewing Republican Councilman Andy Dulin to get his thoughts on what should be […]
Townhouses and single-family homes are sprouting on old industrial sites in the heart of Southern California cities. In Florida, developers are coveting foreclosed golf courses in urban centers to put up new subdivisions. Builders in Texas are going after available land even near landfills for residential and retail development.
Why are the giants of the building […]
Republican state lawmakers on Wednesday took quick and decisive steps toward repealing annexations in the works by Wilmington, Southport and other municipalities across the state and making it more difficult for cities and towns to annex residents involuntarily.
Two separate annexation bills were approved by two state Senate committees on Wednesday – the opening day in […]
Greenville leaders last week presented the city’s legislative initiatives to the area’s local legislative representatives for the May 16 State Legislature short session.
Sen. Louis Pate, a Republican, and Democratic Reps. Marian McLawhorn and Edith Warren heard from Mayor Allen Thomas, Interim City Manager Thomas Moton and City Attorney David Holec, who researched and drafted […]
The city of Monroe has been named one of the Top 10 Successful Aviation and Aerospace Clusters in the South for 2012 by Southern Business and Development magazine.
Monroe has worked to diversify its economy following the Sept. 11 attacks. In the past decade, the city’s economic development department has worked to create the state’s […]
Greensboro, NC — Mayor Robbie Perkins is one of six American mayors heading to Israel for the 28th annual Israeli Mayors Conference.
They will meet with 45 mayors from around the world.
Mayor Perkins says we have a strong Jewish community, and he hopes the visit will help him sell the Triad and North Carolina as […]
RALEIGH — North Carolina’s state government revenues remain slightly above projections used in forming this year’s budget after the all-important April tax collections arrived.
The N.C. General Assembly’s top staff economist told legislative leaders Tuesday to expect $233 million more than was originally expected for the year ending June 30, with slight changes possible. Barry Boardman […]
Wilmington’s red-light cameras will likely survive in next year’s city budget. But they still face possible elimination at the state level. City council members have said they support the program, which was included as a possible cutback in a March budget presentation. The SafeLight program, which operates red-light cameras at 13 locations in Wilmington, costs […]
Metro Charlotte’s improving smog problem placed it 18th-worst among U.S. cities, the American Lung Association says in annual rankings, down from 10th-worst the past two years. The ranking is for ozone, or smog, an invisible gas that in the Charlotte area comes mostly from vehicle tailpipes, power plants and industrial emissions. Mecklenburg County has been […]
