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• Roy Cooper is next NC governor. Now what?

  06-12-2016 22:11 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Now that North Carolina knows who its next governor will be, the question shifts to what kind of governor he will be. Roy Cooper, a Democrat who has spent the past 30 years in state government, faces a daunting set of circumstances when he succeeds Republican rival Pat McCrory next month.Cooper, 59, hails from eastern North Carolina and has served four consecutive terms as state attorney general. He defeated McCrory in a race that ran into December while McCrory challenged and protested vote tot
  
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• Food-packaging company growing with $14M expansion in Huntersville

  06-12-2016 22:08 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  A developer is spending $14 million to expand a building occupied by a Huntersville food-packaging plant, which will grow into the facility.Prairie Brookwood will more than double the size of the Pactiv Corp. packaging facility with an addition of 324,500 square feet. The idea is to create a warehouse there.There’s no word about yet about how many jobs Pactiv, which at last count employed 300 at the Huntersville plant, will add in the expansion, says Ryan McDaniels, executive director of t
  
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• The Bottle Shop opens uptown, serving wines from around the globe

  06-12-2016 20:53 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  The Bottle Shop has opened in uptown Charlotte.That wine shop is located inside the recently renovated Charlotte Marriott Center City at 100 W. Trade Street.It stocks 120 labels from around the world.The location also offers free, nightly wine tastings between 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Each tasting will feature two wines with a common theme, such as White Vs. Red Blends or Chardonnays from different regions.PHOTOS: Why Charlotte's newly renovated Marriott hotel is the first of its kindIt’s&h
  
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• Bank of America to raise wages for lower-paid employees in 2017

  06-12-2016 20:47 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) will raise wages for hourly, non-commission employees in early 2017 to a minimum $15 an hour, up from a minimum $13.50 an hour today.Brian Moynihan, CEO and chairman of the Charlotte-based bank, mentioned the wage increase during a presentation at the Goldman Sachs Financial Services Conference Tuesday.Ferris Morrison, a bank spokeswoman, says most hourly, non-commission roles at the bank fall in the consumer business and the global operations and technology&hel
  
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• Second location on the menu for this Naples, Italy-inspired pizza joint

  06-12-2016 20:45 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Grant Arons will bring his authentic, Italian, wood-fired pizza to Charlotte's Dilworth neighborhood next spring.The owner of Inizio Pizza Napoletana has signed a deal for 3,000-square-feet in Dilworth Crossing.That location is expected to open in April.“It’s just a natural evolution,” Arons says.He is working with Joe Locke on the venture.This will be the second location for the concept following one in Ballantyne’s Providence Commons, which opened last March. Arons note
  
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• HarkerDoerre makes over former industrial space for new home in South End (PHOTOS)

  06-12-2016 20:19 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  A Charlotte general contractor has made a move from uptown into a former industrial building in South End.HarkerDoerre, which does interior upfits for corporate clients like The Lash Group and Sterling Capital Management, is taking 7,500 square feet in a former warehouse building on Bland Street. HarkerDoerre’s new office is part of a subdivided 13,110-square-foot building that the general contractor invested in with Chris Byers of RBA Group, which takes the remaining space, and a team fro
  
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• Taiwanese textile company to bring 610 jobs to fabrics plant in Forest City

  06-12-2016 20:16 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  A Taiwanese company will spend $18.5 million to bring a sports fabric weaving and finishing operation that will employ 610 to Forest City.Everest Textiles USA, a unit of Everest Textile Co. Ltd. in Tainan City, Taiwan, expects to start production of the fabric during the second or third quarter next year, says Tom Johnson, interim director of the Rutherford County Economic Development Commission.“We are very pleased to see the return of this type of industry to the county,” Johnson s
  
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• Female-centered co-working startup moving into Packard Place

  06-12-2016 19:45 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Originally set to operate her female-focused co-working venture in South End, Joanna Bailey has instead found her Charlotte home base in an uptown entrepreneurial hub.After recently connecting with Packard Place co-founder Dan Roselli, Bailey signed a three-year lease over the weekend to occupy 6,000 square feet there, where she will run Coterie Co. — a luxury co-working concept for businesswomen and female community leaders.Coterie will take up about a third of the 20,000 square feet of c
  
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• Custom homebuilder kicks off townhouse project in south Charlotte

  06-12-2016 19:31 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  A Charlotte custom homebuilder has begun development on a new townhouse project in south Charlotte.Copper Builders is developing a luxury townhouse project called Waldron Grove on Pineville-Matthews Road, near the intersection of Pineville-Matthews and Rea roads. The community will include 24 townhouses on a 4.5-acre site. Units will begin in the mid-$400,000 price range.The two-story homes will average 3,000 square feet and have full brick exteriors, according to the homebuilder. All townhouses
  
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• New ABC store sets opening in South End

  06-12-2016 18:40 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Charlotte's South End will get its own ABC store this week.That roughly 4,700-square-foot store is slated to open at 10 a.m. Wednesday. It is located at 1426 South Tryon St. across the street from Amos’ Southend.“We’ve been wanting to get into South End for some time,” says Jason Hughes, board CEO for the Mecklenburg County ABC.That location is ideal because it can serve retail customers as well as bars and restaurants.“It’s also a straight shot into downtown,
  
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