Last August, Concord leaders learned that Bruton Smith, billionaire owner of Lowe's Motor Speedway, wanted incentives for a proposed drag strip and track expansion.
The nearly empty beer can on the kitchen counter was still cold.
Ann Alexander puts her heart as well as her money into mutual funds. Socially responsible investing is her passion. The Chapel Hill woman's mission is convincing everyone to invest in ways that reflect their core values.
A nonprofit group wants to buy as many as 25 vacant houses to help build homeownership in Peachtree Hills, a Charlotte neighborhood that is one of the worst-hit by the foreclosure crisis.
Developers are taking the unusual step of designing a six-story masonry building on West Morehead Street to look like a vintage cotton mill, but don't let appearances fool you.
