Business North Carolina articles from March 2005

Business North Carolina archives from March 2005

He wore it well.(Frank Jr recalls Derick Daniels)
March 1, 2005... Frank Jr. called to tell me Derick had died. He thought I'd want to know. The obituary that ran in The Miami Herald the next day began: "Derick Daniels, a distinguished newspaper editor and executive whose penchant for fine living and even...

Trend.(statistics)(Illustration)
March 1, 2005... [GRAPHIC OMITTED] [GRAPHIC OMITTED] [GRAPHIC OMITTED] [GRAPHIC OMITTED] Latest Previous Previous % change month month year from last year EMPLOYMENT...

Stock watch.(statistics)(Illustration)
March 1, 2005... [GRAPHIC OMITTED] [GRAPHIC OMITTED] Highest price/earnings ratios P/E 1/28/05 52-week Company ratio (2) price range Summit Properties 1,702.8...

Taxpayer's bill of rights could fix fiscal wrongs.(ECONOMIC OUTLOOK)(Interview)
March 1, 2005... The state faces a projected billion-dollar budget deficit for the fiscal year that starts in July. A report by Barry Poulson argues that a taxpayer's bill of rights would prevent such shortfalls. Poulson is an economics professor at the...

Charles Craft closes last Tar Heel mills.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... A Laurinburg-based textile company that once employed 1,100 closed its last two North Carolina mills, blaming high operating costs and foreign competition. Only Charles Craft's Harner, S.C., plant remains open. The company closed factories in...

Rose Acre Farms.(new farm)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... PONZER -- State regulators gave the go-ahead for an egg farm that will have about 4 million chickens. Construction on the $57 million farm was to have begun in February. Operated by Rose Acre Farms of Seymour, Ind., it will employ more than...

North Carolina Global TransPark.(Delta Air Lines Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... KINSTON -- Delta Airlines will begin three daily flights from the North Carolina Global TransPark to its Atlanta hub in April. The TransPark is giving Delta free terminal space and passenger parking. The Lenoir Committee of 100, a local...

RBC Centura.(RBC Centura Banks Inc. layoffs)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... ROCKY MOUNT -- RBC Centura cut about 180 jobs at its headquarters to pare costs. A subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada, the bank has about 3,500 local workers.

Turkington Industries acquired APV Baker.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... GOLDSBORO -- An English company bought a local factory that makes bakery equipment in a $10 million deal that will save about 120 jobs. Turkington Industries acquired APV Baker with help from state and local economic-development grants,...

Nitta Gelatin USA.(new facility)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... FAYETTEVILLE -- Nitta Gelatin USA, part of an Osaka, Japan, company, began work on a $26 million plant that will employ 21 by year-end. The jobs will pay an average of $29,000 a year, about $3,000 more than the average manufacturing wage in...

Intercoastal Diving.(invest on long Bonner Bridge over Oregon Inlet)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... NAGS HEAD -- The state is spending $1.4 million to shore up pilings of the 2.4-mile-long Bonner Bridge over Oregon Inlet. Wilmington-based Intercoastal Diving will use sandbags and concrete to halt erosion. The project will take until about...

Working capital.(REGIONAL REPORT)
March 1, 2005... Source: Employment Security Commission, November. Figures are not seasonally adjusted. The index is the number of jobs as a percentage of the average in 2000. [GRAPHIC OMITTED]

Taking panes, Durham gains 800 jobs.(Silver Line Building Products forecasts)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Durham will get an influx of manufacturing jobs this spring when North Brunswick, N.J.-based Silver Line Building Products opens a plant. The company, which makes vinyl-framed windows for The Home Depot and others, will employ about 800 within...

American Social Health Association.(cut 135 jobs)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... DURHAM -- American Social Health Association cut 135 call-center jobs after losing its contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The nonprofit, which provides information about sexually transmitted diseases, employs about...

Patriot Performance Materials.(plans to new jobs and facility)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... SANFORD -- Patriot Performance Materials, which makes body and vehicle armor for the military, will add about 75 jobs by year-end. The company, which employs about 125, also plans to open a factory in Kuwait this year.

Aeolus Pharmaceuticals.(Richard Burgoon appoints)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK -- Aeolus Pharmaceuticals, formerly Incara, named Richard Burgoon CEO. Aeolus is developing treatments for Lou Gehrig's disease and cancer.

CertainTeed.(expands)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... OXFORD -- Valley Forge, Pa.-based CertainTeed, part of France's Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, will spend about $50 million on a 65,000-square-foot expansion of its shingle plant. The company will add about 55 jobs during the next three years. It...

Canopy Systems.(A4 Health Systems acquires)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... CARY -- A4, an electronic-medical-records company, bought Chapel Hill-based Canopy Systems, which sells software to manage medical records. Canopy was part of Raleigh-based insurer The Medical Mutual Group. Terms weren't disclosed. A4 added...

Makhteshim Agan of North America.(relocates)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... RALEIGH -- Makhteshim Agan of North America, part of Israel's Makhteshim Agan Industries, will move its headquarters here from New York by midyear. It will relocate about 25 employees and hire 15 more within a year. It makes and distributes...

Bayer AG.(NPS BioTherapeutics acquires)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK -- Bayer AG agreed to sell its blood-plasma-products division, based here, to NPS BioTherapeutics, a company formed by New York-based Cerberus Capital Management and Wellesley, Mass.-based Ampersand Ventures, for about...

Motricity.(Matthew Petzold appointed)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... DURHAM -- Motricity, which makes software for handheld computers and cell phones, hired Matthew Petzold as its first chief financial officer. He was CFO of Fairfax, Va.-based Internet and satellite company Verestar. Motricity was formed last...

Pinnacle Furnishings.(relocates)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... ABERDEEN -- Pinnacle Furnishings planned to move from Miami to a 185,000-square-foot building here by February. The company, which makes high-end furniture for casinos, hotels and restaurants, will employ 30 to 50.

Watsco.(aqquires East Coast Metal Distributors)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... DURHAM -- Coconut Grove, Fla.-based Watsco, which distributes air-conditioning, heating and refrigeration products, bought East Coast Metal Distributors, which sells air-conditioning and heating products. East Coast has about 385 employees and...

Amphora Discovery.(partners Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK -- Amphora Discovery will work with Raritan, N.J.-based drug maker Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, part of New Brunswick, N.J.-based Johnson & Johnson, to develop treatments for inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid...

N.C. State University.(master's of business administration program)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... RALEIGH -- N.C. State University will begin offering a biotechnology-and-pharmaceutical concentration this fall as part of its master's of business administration program.

The Herald-Sun.(acquires)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Paducah, Ky.-based Paxton Media Group bought The Herald-Sun, a 50,000-circulation daily newspaper in Durham, from the Rollins family. Terms weren't disclosed. Paxton, which also owns newspapers in High Point, Sanford, Lenoir, Monroe, Henderson...

Old Dominion Freight Line.(acquires Wichita Southeast Kansas Transit)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... THOMASVILLE -- Old Dominion Freight Line bought Parsons, Kan.-based competitor Wichita Southeast Kansas Transit. Terms weren't disclosed. Wichita had revenue of $68 million for the fiscal year ended in September. The acquisition will allow the...

Forsyth Technical Community College.(Russ Read appointed)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... WINSTON-SALEM -- Forsyth Technical Community College hired Russ Read, former CEO of Kucera Pharmaceutical, as executive director of its National Center for the Biotechnology Work Force. The college is paying for the center with a $5 million...

Bank of the Carolinas.(securities)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... MOCKSVILLE -- Bank of the Carolinas raised more than $10.4 million in a secondary stock offering. It has been approved to trade on the Nasdaq SmallCap Market under the symbol BKOC.

Forsyth Medical Center and North Carolina Baptist Hospital.(TRIAD)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... WINSTON-SALEM -- Forsyth Medical Center and North Carolina Baptist Hospital agreed to collaborate with Stokes and Yadkin counties to provide health care there. The hospitals clashed in 2003 when Baptist wanted to build a hospital in King, in...

Culp.(Howard L. Dunn resigned)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... HIGH POINT -- Howard L. Dunn resigned as vice chairman of Culp. Dunn, 67, had been the textile maker's president and chief operating officer from 1993 to 2004. He will stay on the board.

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings.(acquires US Pathology Labs)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... BURLINGTON -- Clinical-testing company Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings agreed to buy Irvine, Calif.-based US Pathology Labs, which provides cancer and other testing, for $155 million. The deal, which will increase LabCorp's presence...

Berco of America.(add 75 jobs)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... JAMESTOWN -- Waukesha, Wis.-based Berco of America, which distributes parts for heavy-equipment undercarriages, will add 75 jobs at its warehouse and assembly plant here. It has 20 workers. Berco of America is a subsidiary of Italy-based Berco....

Neuhofer Holz.(new facility)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... GREENSBORO -- Austria-based Neuhofer Holz, which makes wood molding for floors, cabinets and furniture, opened a 20-employee manufacturing operation, its first in the United States.

Woodforest National Bank.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... WINSTON-SALEM -- Houston-based Woodforest National Bank has asked federal regulators for permission to open its first North Carolina office. It would be in a Wal-Mart store. Woodforest plans to open 10 offices in the state.

Mebane telephone company plans IPO.(Madison River Communications)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Madison River Communications, a Mebane-based holding company for Mebtel and other local-service providers in Illinois, Georgia and Alabama, has filed plans with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering that...

WestPoint Stevens.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... West Point, Ga.-based WestPoint Stevens will close its plant and distribution center in Burlington by early April, idling about 560. The move is part of a consolidation of its bedding and towel manufacturing. It also is closing plants in...

Jetliner parts could send sales soaring.(CHARLOTTE)(B.F. Goodrich Co.)(Boeing Co.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Charlotte-based Goodrich expects sales of more than $7.5 billion through 2028 from contracts to supply parts for Boeing's new 7E7 Dreamliner airplane. The Chicago-based aircraft manufacturer plans to start shipping the 7E7 in 2008. But things...

Curtiss-Wright Controls.(CHARLOTTE)(Curtiss-Wright Corp.)(Lockheed Martin Corp.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... GASTONIA -- Curtiss-Wright Controls, part of Roseland, N.J.-based Curtiss-Wright, won a three-year supply contract from Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin that could be worth $32.6 million. The company will make equipment at its Shelby factory...

Dana.(CHARLOTTE)(Dana Corp. closes its local plant)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... STATESVILLE -- Toledo, Ohio-based Dana, which makes axles and transmissions used in industrial equipment, will close its local plant in September, idling 300. The company is consolidating manufacturing.

ATA Airlines.(CHARLOTTE)(Organization dissolution)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... CHARLOTTE -- Bankrupt ATA Airlines quit operating here. The departure of Indianapolis-based ATA, after less than three years at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport, leaves Dulles, Va.-based Independence Air as its only discount carrier.

Carolina Sharks.(CHARLOTTE )(Football competitions)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... CHARLOTTE -- The Carolina Sharks, part of the Atlantic Indoor Football League, will play home games at Cricket Arena when the league kicks off its first season in April. Majority owner Theron Davis also owns Team 83 Sports, a...

Frye Regional Medical Center.(CHARLOTTE)(Appointment of Denny Bruns )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... HICKORY -- Denny Bruns was selected to replace Dennis Phillips as CEO of Frye Regional Medical Center. Bruns, CEO of Hilton Head Regional Medical Center in South Carolina since 1994, was to take over in February. Phillips left Frye after 18...

FairPoint Communications.(CHARLOTTE)(public offering)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... CHARLOTTE -- FairPoint Communications dropped plans for an unusual public offering that would have combined debt certificates with stock. It wants to do a traditional initial public offering that could fetch as much as $575 million. The company...

Nucor.(CHARLOTTE)(Nucor Corp. acquires Fort Howard Steel Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... CHARLOTTE -- Nucor agreed to buy the assets of Fort Howard Steel's factory in Oak Creek, Wis. Terms weren't disclosed. The plant has an annual capacity of 140,000 tons and will move Nucor from the third-largest producer of cold-finished bars in...

National Gypsum.(CHARLOTTE)(Appointment of Thomas Nelson )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... CHARLOTTE -- Thomas Nelson replaced his father-in-law, C.D. Spangler Jr., as chairman of National Gypsum. Nelson became CEO of the wallboard maker in 1999. Spangler remains on the board of directors.

Meineke Car Care Centers replaced Continental Tire North America.(CHARLOTTE)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... CHARLOTTE -- Meineke Car Care Centers replaced Continental Tire North America as title sponsor of the annual college football bowl game here. The three-year deal renames the game the Meineke Car Care Bowl. Terms weren't disclosed.

Chelsea Therapeutics.(CHARLOTTE)(Pharmaceutical industry)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... CHARLOTTE -- Chelsea Therapeutics raised $14.5 million to help finance tests of a compound aimed at treating rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and some cancers. The company hopes to start selling the drug as early as 2008.

Goody's Family Clothing.(CHARLOTTE)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... CHARLOTTE -- Goody's Family Clothing, a Knoxville, Tenn.-based retailer, planned to close its three stores here by mid-February. The closings will leave the company with 356 stores in 20 states, including 43 in North Carolina.

Wachovia.(CHARLOTTE)(Wachovia Corp. cuts jobs)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Charlotte-based Wachovia plans to cut as many as 4,000 of its 96,000 full-time jobs through 2007 as part of a plan to reduce annual expenses by as much as $500 million. About 20% of the cuts are expected to come through attrition. Those...

Altec doesn't go out on a limb in deal.(WESTERN)(Altec Industries Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Birmingham, Ala.-based Altec Industries, a maker of lifts, cranes and other equipment, will begin operations this summer in the former Outboard Marine Corp. plant in Burnsville. It expects to hire more than 300 workers within five years. OMC...

Raflatac.(WESTERN)(Raflatac Iberica S.A.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... FLETCHER -- Finnish-owned Raflatac, which makes adhesive labels, will spend $40 million to upgrade and expand its headquarters and plant, adding 70 jobs to the 190 here. Average pay will be about $31,000 a year. The company received a $300,000...

Navigational Sciences.(WESTERN)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... ASHEVILLE -- Navigational Sciences, based in Charleston, S.C., opened a $2 million operations center here that employs 12. The company tracks ocean shipping.

National Indian Gaming Commission.(WESTERN)(National Indian Gaming Commission)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... CHEROKEE -- The National Indian Gaming Commission, which oversees Harrah's Cherokee Casino, is withholding $45 million owed to the 13,000-member Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians because the commission doesn't consider the reserve funds set up...

French Broad River.(WESTERN)(Pollution control regulations)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... ASHEVILLE -- Effective in July, businesses and homeowners will have to pay a fee intended to curb pollution of the French Broad River. City Council members estimated the storm-water runoff charge, similar to those in several other Tar Heel...

Buyer wants bank to charter his course.(TAR HEEL TATTLER)(Steve Johnson of Florida Banks Inc.)
March 1, 2005... Steve Johnson started Atlanta-based NetBank, one of the first to do business only online, in 1997 He's still a director, and it has nearly $6 billion in assets. In 1999, he started Jacksonville, Fla.-based Florida Banks, sold in January for...

New CEO won't do an Enron on Krispy.(Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Corp's new CEO Stephen Cooper)
March 1, 2005... A few weeks into 2005, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts directors followed a New Year's resolution that investors had long been wanting them to make: Boot CEO Scott Livengood. The Winston-Salem-based doughnut maker's shares had fallen from about $50 in...

Sale sinks hopes of golf-club members.
March 1, 2005... Members of a Southern Pines golf club who have feuded with its management for four years thought they would get a break when the club was auctioned off after its owner declared bankruptcy. But letters they got in January from the new management...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
March 1, 2005... Two Legal Elite members were identified incorrectly in the January issue: Richard Morton of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC, Charlotte, environmental law; and Thomas Farr of Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC, Raleigh, employment...

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Leslie Alexandre, president, N.C. Biotechnology Center Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nafisi's memoir of teaching Western literature to university students in prerevolutionary...

The Great Gatsby.(Jim Fain says)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Jim Fain, N.C. secretary of commerce The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] My father, who was in the newspaper business in Hendersonville, spent time with the author when Zelda Fitzgerald was hospitalized...

The Charlotte Observer Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Peter Ridder, publisher, The Charlotte Observer Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This is about two...

Till death do us part.(Charles Gifford retirement benefits)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Till death do us part: Charles Gifford, former CEO of FleetBoston Financial, retired as chairman of Bank of America just 10 months after the merger. In addition to lump-sum severance pay totaling at least $16 million and $3.1 million a year in...

Sox appeal.(FleetBoston Financial Corp's Charles Gifford benefits)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Sox appeal: Gifford's agreement gives him use of an airplane for up to 120 hours a year the first five years and the right to buy as many as four tickets for up to 15 Boston Red Sox games a year as long as he wants them. That's only proper...

Long overdue.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Long overdue: Salisbury Mayor Susan Kluttz wrote the mayor of Philadelphia to seek his help in finding some missing property--namely the one-room building where Andrew Jackson studied law. Salisbury lent it to the U.S. Centennial International...

Slippery when wet.(TATTLE TALES)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Slippery when wet: Because of a labeling mix-up, as many as 4,000 patients at two Duke University Health System hospitals might have been operated on with surgical instruments that had been washed in hot water and hydraulic fluid. They were...

Attention.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Attention: Three hundred extra dollars infiltrated the paychecks of 3,100 soldiers at Fort Bragg in January. None of them noticed--at least nobody complained--until Army officials announced the financial reinforcements, blamed on an accounting...

Hair today, gone tomorrow.(TATTLE TALES)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Hair today, gone tomorrow: A man dressed as a woman broke into a Greensboro beauty-supply store and snatched eight bags of hair, valued at about $72. The store manager gave chase, but, alas, the thief, despite his attire, didn't run like a...

Awful flaky.(TATTLE TALES)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Awful flaky: Thomasville Ga.-based Flowers Foods is forking over $2.5 million to charity to settle a class-action lawsuit because its Pembroke bakery, now closed, used nonkosher products--reportedly lard--to make kosher pie crusts in 2000 and...

Gracias, you're busted.(investigate driver-license applicants)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Gracias, you're busted: An Alamance County sheriff's deputy, frequently called to the local Department of Motor Vehicles office to investigate driver-license applicants, hit on a tactic. "All illegal aliens with false IDs please step forward,"...

Out on a limb.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Out on a limb: A $13.4 million Durham high school that highlights such ecological niceties as waterless urinals was in limbo after neighbors complained that construction would disturb a 50-year-old oak standing at its entrance.

Data bits.(Social Security beneficiaries)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
March 1, 2005... Social Security beneficiaries make up more than a quarter of the population in 10 mountain counties. Transylvania 28.8% Clay 28.7 Macon 28.1 Polk 27.7 Cherokee 27.5 Henderson 26.6 Haywood ...

Figuratively speaking.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... * Percentage of workers who say the biggest mistake they made during their last vacation was not taking enough time off: 43. Who couldn't stop thinking about work while on vacation: 17. * Percentage of U.S. companies that take writing...

Ex-judge wants state to break with incentives.(PEOPLE)(Bob Orr )(Biography)
March 1, 2005... Bob Orr laughed recently when he found a cat collar with a bell in his office. It was a gag gift from a group he had addressed. In his speech, he recited the fable about a colony of mice that cheered when one suggested they bell their nemesis...

His borders break boundaries in decor.(PEOPLE)(John Ham of Cultural Hangups Inc)
March 1, 2005... John Ham is trying to relax. But he has been busy since his company, Huntersville-based Cultural Hangups Inc., hit the big time. In November, home-improvement giant Lowe's began carrying two of its ethnic-themed wallpaper borders in 304 stores...

Event cinches deal with belt he made.(PEOPLE)(Grant Dial of Grant Dial Silversmith )
March 1, 2005... Grant Dial took a gamble in 1976. The Maxton native, a Lumbee Indian, quit college about a semester before graduation. At 24, he believed his future was in making and selling jewelry. He started Grant Dial Silversmith in Red Springs that year....

State panel exists under rule of flaw.(CAPITAL)(Rules Review Commission)
March 1, 2005... When the 1995 General Assembly quietly empowered an obscure advisory board with unprecedented authority to slow or kill proposed rules, business lobbyists beamed with satisfaction. For decades, state agencies, boards and commissions had been...

Colleges win when fans wear out their welcome.(SPORTS SECTION)
March 1, 2005... In a couple of weeks, UNC Chapel Hill, Duke, N.C. State and Wake Forest, among others, will square off at the Atlantic Coast Conference basketball tournament. Television announcers will blather on about what's at stake: better seeding in the...

Mission possible: Asheville medical center concentrates on controlling its costs and care to create one of the state's top hospitals.(FEATURE)(Mission Hospitals )
March 1, 2005... They warned him: We don't like monopolies, and if you create one, we'll hold your feet to the fire. As if to make sure he got the message, the U.S. Department of Justice sent federal agents to search his computer hard drives. Bob Burgin was...

Dell pickle: though it has left a sour taste in some people's mouths, officials insist the jobs it'll bring make this a sweet deal.(Dell Inc.)(Cover Story)
March 1, 2005... Maybe the outcome was inevitable. On one side stood Mike Easley, governor of a state battered by the loss of tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs. On the other was Dell Inc., the world's leading computer maker, famous for tightfisted cost...

Pulling strings: a young craftsman masters old skills for making music pay. Because in this business you can't afford to fiddle around.(PICTURE THIS)(Tim Donley)
March 1, 2005... Charlotte's Elizabeth neighborhood took root in the horse-and-buggy 1890s, but now cars on their way downtown flash past the old houses along shady East 7th Street. In one of those houses, though, time is marked on a different clock. Tim...

Greenville moving from tobacco to technology.(SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: REGIONAL FOCUS)
March 1, 2005... It all started with a river. That's how people and products got places in the mid-1700s. The Tar River was a conduit for North Carolina tobacco, cotton, peanuts, potatoes and livestock. And the place where people gathered in Eastern North...

Bricks & mortar.
March 1, 2005... Neglected and within a hair of demolition in the 1930s, the Raleigh Water Works tower not only survived but eventually became home to a group that can appreciate simple lines--the North Carolina chapter of the American Institute of Architects....