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"Following growth and money, craft brewers rapidly colonize the city’s satellites" Twenty-three miles from downtown Charlotte is The DreamChaser’s Brewery in Waxhaw.. As housing prices and scarcity of land in the city have become more problematic,in recent times, many breweries are finding their way to suburban areas.
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The article is featured as a photo essay and commentary on the Charlotte team's inaugural season in 2022.
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"If ever the marque of a performance venue could capture the contradictory, heat-struck culture of 1970s Charlotte, this was surely it; This photo has become a piece of Charlotte iconography: four acts that don't seem to belong in the same galaxy, much less the same arena. But they all fit into the old Charlotte Coliseum, and they left a lot of stories behind, even if Billy Graham never got a chance to wrestle Elvis." Reference is to a well-remembered photo of the Charlotte Coliseum in 1972.
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Co-owners, Barry and Jennifer Horton opereate Sanctuary Bistro in south Charlotte. The menu here is "all vegan, gluten-free, and organic." Barry Horton has a culinary degree from Western Culinary Institute in Portland, Oregon.
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At 68, Margo Scurry has collected Black holiday décor since 1993.
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"In a booming industry and an isolated corner of Charlotte, the brothers Voronin collect, auction, resell and buy, buy again." Brothers Stan and Aleks Voronin are the owners of Vista Auction. Since 2008, the American liquidation market has more than doubled, reaching $644 billion in 2020.
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Lawson's chief work investigates the marriage of music and mental health.
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Discussed are the new Five Points Plaza sculpture, the railroad builder at Trade and Tryon Streets, the Abel Jackson Mural on South Brevard Street, the Thad Tate statue, the Sam Billings statue and Jamil Dyair's work on West Trade street and interstate 77.
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"Four Decades ago a handful of business titans would meet--in their offices, sometimes at the Lance Plant off South Boulevard--to discuss their vision of a vibrant New South city. At the core were five men who led the city's biggest banks, daily newspaper, power company, and retailer." Discussed are: Hugh McColl, Harvey Gant, Vi Lyles, Marcus Jones, Michael Marsicano, Robert Dawkins, Malcolm Graham, Keith Cockrell and Malcomb Coley.
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Margaret Kocherga moved from Ukraine to Charlotte when she was fifteen. After studies at UNC Charlotte, she began her business, Margik Inc. in 2019 at age 25. The business produces organic materials for consumer electronics. Its first product line consisted of the world's first fully recyclable , organic, LED based lighted stickers and business cards.
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"For potential homebuyers, some good news: the market has started to calm down. some bad news, its settling in an expensive place." The current landscape for buying a home in Charlotte is both confusing and sometimes contradictory. there is no one silver bullet that can solve the problem. According to the author of tis sketch, the last two years have given in to an inflation of the housing market, the outcome of too many buyers withvery cheap money seeking too few homes.
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Charlotte Magazine
(NoCar F 264.C4), Vol. 28 Issue 4, April 2023,
p62-65, il, map
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"Jokes aside, Interstate 277 is one of the worst mistakes in Charlotte history---a clogged, dangerous monstrosity that severed neighborhoods from each other, displaced hundreds of families, and continues to hinder opportunities for citizens. What would have to happen to make it disappear?" The major road development was completed in 1988. Current efforts to lessen some of the negative effects of the road have slowed owing to NCDOT's recent financial crunch.
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"Our booming city needs reliable, affordable public transit more than ever. But our system has a shrinking fleet of poorly maintained buses, myriad of operational issues, absent leadership--and no clear route to fix any of it." Charlotte Area Transit began operation in 1976. Ridership in the system has declined 75% since 2014.
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Located on 237 North Tryon Street in Charlotte, the neoclassical structure originally opened in November 1929 as The Mayflower Manor, a mix of hotel rooms and apartments designed by renowned architect Louis Asbury. the building fell into disrepair in the 1980s. In 1988, after a $6 million renovation, it reopened as The Dunhill, Charlotte's only historic hotel.
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"A mother, daughter, and daughter-in-law make 'posh and playful' clothing for women and children." The business was launched in October 2020. It's product is described as both a little edgy and vintage.
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