Articles
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Regional Report Charlotte September 2012Charlotte plans to flip the shuttered Eastland Mall shopping center to private developers who would turn part of it into studios and soundstages for the region’s growing film industry. |
2012-09 |
Regional Report Triangle July 2012The sporting events that Hill Carrow brings to North Carolina may not be as familiar as the Atlantic Coast Conference basketball tournament or U.S. Open golf tournament, but some have been more lucrative and drawn bigger crowds. |
2012-07 |
Playing ballMinor-league teams pitch new parks as a way for downtown development to hit a home run. |
2012-07 |
Independent productionA successful business lawyer teams up with a tattooed dissident to save a video store but finds a happy ending is hard to come by. |
2012-06 |
Regional Report Eastern May 2012Recently introduced regulations that limit the use of off-road vehicles at Cape Hatteras National Seashore have rekindled debate about the impact of those rules on North Carolina’s coastal economy. |
2012-05 |
Regional Report Charlotte March 2012The Charlotte energy sector, which President Barack Obama has repeatedly praised, features such behemoths as Duke Energy Corp. and Siemens Energy Inc., a subsidiary of Germany-based Siemens AG. But economic-development officials are quick to admit its biggest flaw: a lack of startups. |
2012-03 |
The best of luckPeople who know the majority owner of the Carolina Panthers describe Jerry Richardson many ways. |
2012-02 |
30 that countThe host of public television’s Carolina Business Review selects the key figures influencing the Tar Heel economy.
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2011-10 |
Onto another planeAs his black Chrysler rolls out of Little Washington across the bridge over the Pamlico River, Reggie Fountain chatters like a jackhammer into his cellphone.
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2011-08 |
Regional Report Charlotte August 2011“Because we don’t want to.”
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2011-08 |
Major success in a minor keyBarbra Streisand seemed a bit flustered. Wearing a majestic necklace with shiny black stones and a flowing maroon dress, the veteran actress and pop star was standing at the podium during the Grammy ceremony in Los Angeles Feb. 13.
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2011-07 |
Regional Report Western July11Publicity is integral in making a movie a hit. |
2011-07 |
Regional Report Charlotte January 2009When hard times forced a stock-car team to cut costs in racing’s early days, it usually meant losing five or six grease monkeys. “Now, you’ve got to put another zero on everything,” says Humpy Wheeler, former president and general manager of Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
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2009-01 |
Regional Report Western January 2009Even with golfer Tiger Woods involved, selling high-dollar real estate might seem like a long shot these days.
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2009-01 |
Bobby LongSix years ago, Bobby Long was described in print as “the most successful businessman in Greensboro that you’ve never heard of."
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2008-09 |
E. Spencer RobbinsHe’s no golf historian, but like many an older fan, Spencer Robbins can recall Jack Nicklaus getting the better of Arnold Palmer a time or two.
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2008-09 |
Kelly MillerHe married into one of the state’s great golf families, and it’s natural to assume that Kelly Miller married into money.
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2008-09 |
Thomas J. FazioNo living designer has more credits on Golf Digest’s list of America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses than Tom Fazio.
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2008-09 |
William MangumWhen the textile and furniture industries landed in the rough, the brush strokes of William Mangum’s watercolors became more defined.
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2008-09 |
Elsie GarnerElsie Garner, 61, has made a career of television, yet the WTVI president and CEO spent her early years without one. The daughter of missionaries in Trujillo, Peru, she got rare glimpses of TV when the family made trips to Lima.
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2008-07 |
