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Let’s get digital: Cabarrus County gets high scores for technology

By Newsroom ⋅ August 14, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

Cabarrus County is moving up in the world of best technology practices. The Center for Digital Government and the National Association of Counties says Cabarrus moved up a notch in the 2016 Digital Counties Survey, to No. 6 this year for counties with a population of 150,000 to 249,999. While counties self-select around entering the […]

S&D Coffee will be sold to Cott

By Newsroom ⋅ August 4, 2016 ⋅ One comment

Aug. 4. Cott Corp., one of the world’s one of the world’s largest producers of beverages on behalf of retailers, brand owners and distributors, has announced plans to buy Concord-based S&D Coffee Inc. for an undisclosed amount. UPDATE: Cott Corp. will pay $355 million on a debt and cash free basis S&D has been a mainstay of […]

Merger means 20 new jobs over three years

By Newsroom ⋅ July 26, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

July 26. The City of Kannapolis has approved an economic development incentive grant to ISE Enterprises for a 30,000 square foot facility on Biscayne Drive. The expansion project will result in 20 new full time jobs over the next three years. Kannapolis-based ECS Enterprises and Charlotte-based International Display Systems have merged, resulting in the expansion. The […]

Sunya Folayan poses for a portrait with some of her fiber art in her studio. Folayan lives “within walking distance” of the Clearwater Artist Studios. Photo by Marty Price

Concord art scene benefits from non-profit partnership with city

By Newsroom ⋅ July 25, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

By Marty Price. When Noelle Rhodes Scott, president and CEO of the Cabarrus Arts Council first came to the CAC, there was a grand total of one employee—her. Now she has a budget of $988,288 and eight employees including herself. Art was a billion-dollar industry in North Carolina in 2010. A new study gets under way […]

Cabarrus recruits Mooresville eco-devo leader

By Newsroom ⋅ July 7, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

July 7. Robert J. Carney Jr., who has been the executive director of the Mooresville-South Iredell Economic Development Corporation since 2010, takes over as president and CEO of Cabarrus County Economic Development Aug. 1. Carney replaces Patrick Coughlin who headed up both the Cabarrus Chamber and Cabarrus EDC until he was let go in December last […]

New downtown plan puts hotel at north end of Cannon Village

By Newsroom ⋅ June 17, 2016 ⋅ One comment

June 17. The Kannapolis City Council has unanimously endorsed the “North Option” for the redevelopment of downtown. It places a sports and entertainment complex in the north section of downtown, a hotel on Main Street, and a performing arts center on West Street. Residential development will be located in the historic district of the City […]

Three Downtown Kannapolis master plan meetings in June

By Newsroom ⋅ June 8, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

June 8. There are three informational meetings on the Kannapolis Downtown Revitalization Master Plan planned in June. Two will be held from 6-7 pm on June 20 and June 29, at Kannapolis City Hall; a third will be during a meeting of Downtown Kannapolis Inc. June 16, also at City Hall. All three meetings are open to the […]

FlyRight moving into 40,000-square-foot spec facility in Concord

By Newsroom ⋅ May 31, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

May 31. UPDATE. FlyRight Inc., a professional flight school, will move from the West Winds Business Park in Concord to a new 40,000 square foot facility in Concord Airport Business Park Phase II. The expansion, in a spec project that was developed by The Silverman Group, will add 10 new jobs. President Matt Hapgood said FlyRight plans […]

Concord a ‘best place to live’ according to new study

By Newsroom ⋅ May 27, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

May 27. An online real estate portal called RentApplication.com has ranked the 50 best places to live in North Carolina, with one in the Golden Crescent, Concord, making the Top 5. Chapel Hill, Boone, Lincolnton, Hickory, Concord, are the top five. The high ranking for Concord doesn’t come out of the clear blue. Concord was […]

Kannapolis seeks RFPs for demonstration project

By Newsroom ⋅ May 5, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

May 5. Kannapolis is asking would-be developers to submit proposals for the 200 West Avenue Demonstration Project by June 24. The downtown revitalization project, in total, consists of 50 acres of land and buildings in the downtown core. The Demonstration Project is the first step in the master development plan and would include apartments, a parking deck, retail and […]

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