A lot going on here between the City of Raleigh and Wake County regarding allocation of tourism dollars funded by hotel-motel taxes. More about that later, but the bottom line…
Interesting N&O article by Luke DeCock on the downtown Raleigh soccer stadium and entertainment complex proposed by developer John Kane and North Carolina Football Club owner Steve Malik The headline……
News & Observer reports plans will be unveiled next week for the sports and entertainment complex planned for downtown Raleigh. Ideally the development would attract a Major League Soccer franchise,…
Seems that Charlotte isn’t the only city with a minor-league soccer team owner with major league ambitions. Per the Raleigh News & Observer: The Carolina Hurricanes aren’t moving to downtown…
The National Hockey League financially is in an odd place, with the league overall seeing a resurgence but several teams continue to lose money. There’s even been talk of expansion…
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…
View in your browser. Why is almost every major city in the nation infatuated with the Big Three: sports stadiums, convention centers and trains? Charlotte has all three, and so…
View in your browser. Why is almost every major city in the nation infatuated with the Big Three: sports stadiums, convention centers and trains? Charlotte has all three, and so…
Great quote from one of Scotty McCreery’s fans who watched the Garner teenager win the American Idol contest last night at the RBC Center: “He’s a total package –…
Donut fans near downtown Raleigh can’t be happy that Krispy Kreme will close its oversized kiosk on the Fayetteville Street Mall just after the hawk-ey fans depart for the NHL…
No, not Icky Woods. Icky as in gross. Check out what ESPN found in a fly-by of the country’s major league sports venues sanity sanitation scores: Bank of America Stadium…
The funding and building of the RBC Center was controversial in Raleigh, and now Mayor Charles Meeker is looking ahead to a possible replacement facility. In his Daily Journal, Locke…