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Charlotte council to vote on RNC today
The Charlotte City Council will meet at 2pm today to debate and vote on whether or not to host the 2020 Republican National Convention: Under a contract between the RNC,…
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Charlotte hotel revenue up
As the Charlotte Observer reports: Mecklenburg County’s average daily hotel rate this year is expected to be $104 – the first time it has crossed $100 a night. It was…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Charlotte’s hall of infamy
Back in 2009, then-Mayor of Charlotte Pat McCrory said in announcing the NASCAR Hall of Fame, “We’re building this to help the economy.” Far-fetched projections helped Charlotte win the project…
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Checkers back to Bojangles’ Coliseum?
Now this is a strange development: The UPoR reports that the Charlotte Checkers are considering moving back to the old, old coliseum on Independence Boulevard — Bojangles’ Coliseum as it…
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Some NASCAR HOF loans to be written off?
Catching up on stuff. So it seems that the city is asking Wells Fargo and Bank of America to forgive a $19 million ($21 million with interest) loan for the…
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How Charlotte raced into the bad economic-impact projections Hall of Fame
View in your browser. The JLF research staff is completing the upcoming edition of our City and County Issue Guide, and in so doing I am writing about convention centers,…
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CRVA seeks stadium events
The economic development business is somewhat detached from reality. OK, maybe a lot detached from reality. The latest case in point is city and the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority’s attempt…
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Complete Fabrication Of Numbers?
Over at sister blog The Meck Deck, Mike Lowrey posts a Wall Street Journal story about museums that fail to live up to attendance expectations — including the NASCAR Hall…
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No big hotel, at least for now
For years, the powers that be in this city have bought into the convention center as an economic development tool. The theory was that it draws in so much visitor…
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DNC economic impact
From the UPoR: September’s Democratic National Convention injected $91 million in new spending into the local economy, for a total economic impact of nearly $164 million, according to a consultant’s…
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Convention numbers don’t add up
Got a new column out on how estimates of the Charlotte Convention Center economic impact are absurd: CHARLOTTE — Just before the Democratic National Convention, The Charlotte Observer ran a…
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CRVA to lie less about economic impact
That really is the take away point from the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority’s decision to revamp how it tracks the (alleged) economic impact of conventions that come to town. The…