Jim Geraghty of National Review Online ponders one of the stranger stories emerging from the Trump family. You probably haven’t heard of the “Flamingo Revolution,” and the odds of you…
Wake County leaders want to build affordable housing for teachers and public school employees. The idea was presented earlier this week to a joint meeting of the Wake County School…
Judge Glock of the Manhattan Institute offers an idea for improving regulation of the property development process. In perhaps no business is the phrase “time is money” truer than in…
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court and ruled against Concord in a fight over water and sewer impact fees. The ruling…
…In spite of last week’s report that Greensboro developer Roy Carroll was backing out of a plan to build a hotel near the city’s $35 million downtown baseball stadium, which…
Greensboro developer Roy Carroll has announced he is pulling out of a proposed hotel project near High Point’s $35 million taxpayer-funded downtown baseball stadium. In a statement, Carroll said: “The…
Update: The N&R reports a mere 12 minutes ago it has reached an agreement to sell the property. Strange it doesn’t mention the buyer. That’s the headline in the Rhino…
News & Record reports downtown developer Roy Carroll and the City of Greensboro “are back on speaking terms” regarding the proposed $30 million parking deck. Remember back in April Carroll…
A while back I wrote a column for CJ about the political implications of parking decks in downtown Greensboro. Who knew parking decks –of all things—could create such political shockwaves?…
High Point University president Nido Qubein tells a forum at the High Point Country Club the children’s museum that will be part of High Point’s downtown stadium/mixed-use catalyst project won’t…
In mid-February, the Charlotte Observer ran a long piece about “The little-known trend that’s hurting housing affordability in Charlotte.” And while it’s interesting, there’s nothing about the piece that’s actually…
Interesting Winston-Salem Journal story on the city’s proposed plan to acquire 22 undeveloped lots in the Lake Park subdivision. Residents are supportive of the plan as long as the city…