Novant Presbyterian opens private neonatal ICU waiting room

Dec. 10 Thanks to a $100,000 donation from Speedway Children's Charities, Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center opened a private waiting room for families of infants in the Hemby Neonatal Intensive Car Unit on Tuesday.

Heather Hucks' son Tucker was born at 24 weeks last year and spent five months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. As a board member of SCC, Hucks convinced the organization to donate the funds for three isolettes and sprucing up an area of the hospital that can now be a comfortable place for families to wait according to Novant spokesperson Tori Belle-Miller.

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NC Charlotte Bioinformatics planning expansion of their NCRC offices

By Jennifer Woodford

BROUWER

Cory Brouwer, director of the UNC Charlotte Bioinformatics Research Services Division at the North Carolina  Research Campus, directs projects involving complex biological computations and the management of immense data sets.

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Event honored

Dec. 9 The Lake Norman Tennis Association  will receive the 2013 Tennis Team Event/Program of the Year Award given by Omega Sports at the USTA North Carolina Annual Awards Luncheon Jan. 26 in Pinehurst.  The award is in recognition of hosting the North Carolina 18+ Adult League State Championships held June 27-30. http://nctennis.com/node/731

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Aquesta to pay dividend

Nov. 19 Aquesta Bank and subsidiaries (OTC Markets symbol ATBK) announced  that its Board of Directors has declared the payment of Aquesta’s first ever cash dividend in the amount of 10 cents per share to shareholders of record as of Nov. 29.  The dividend is payable on Dec. 13.

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Are you making a list, too?

KANE Kane 10.10

Santa has his once-a year list — do you? It is said people who set goals and write them down are much more likely to achieve them than those who don’t. There are also those who create a list of goals but only refer to it just before the deadline that measures their success.  So as the calendar year closes many are working hard to ‘do they best they can’ for this year, while the most successful sales professionals are already working next year’s goals.

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Shoppes at University Commons

Nov. 5 Univerisity City Partners announced that the  former WalMart store at University Place has a new owner and name. Tricor International Corp. of Florida, a major developer of residential and commercial properties, bought the building and 15.6-acres in August for $5.4 million, according to county tax records. 

Tricor has renamed the building the Shoppes at University Commons and has begun marketing the existing 126,397-square-foot building for retail uses. The marketing materials say that the current building can be subdivided and also expanded by 26,583 square feet. “Additionally, +/- 15,000 SF of retail shop space is planned,” says the marketing brochure. 
Walmart opened here 19 years ago but moved in 2011 to a nearby site on North Tryon Street near IKEA. 
Few issues have prompted as much concern over the past several years about the vitality of University City’s retail market as the former WalMart building. Even though WalMart has rejected several offers on the building and site, some people have worried that the 2.5-year vacancy signaled a decline in University City’s retail.

Harris Teeter coming to Antiquity

Dec. 3 Antiquity announced that it will develop a new 53,000-square-foot Harris Teeter grocery store with a drive-through pharmacy to anchor the community’s retail town center.  Groundbreaking for the new Harris Teeter store is April 2014 and will open the first quarter of 2015, according to Cam Finley, developer of Antiquity.

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See life in new Concord aquarium

By Dave Friedman
This spring you can take your family and friends to see more than 5,000 sea creatures, swimming in 150,000 gallons of water, on a 26,000-square-foot site by Concord Mills.

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