Business North Carolina articles from September 2004

Business North Carolina archives from September 2004

Telling stories.(Up Front)
September 1, 2004... It's getting to be a habit. For the third year in a row, Senior Editor Ed Martin won the gold prize for best body of work by a magazine reporter in the Association of Area Business Publications Editorial Excellence Awards. Once again the...

Manager in chief.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2004... A business magazine is for managers, and presumably its editors understand and support strong management. By attacking George Bush (Up Front, August) and, by clear implication, endorsing Kerry and Edwards, you opt for two who are flagrantly...

It pays to advertise.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2004... In your August issue, you have an advertisement for recruitment of new businesses and expansions to Michigan. Why would you allow such an ad to be placed in BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA? Yes, the statewide business climate has experienced a moderate...

Risk trumps reward.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2004... Senior Editor Ed Martin does good work in reporting much of the firestorm surrounding the cost of medical care in North Carolina and the availability/cost of medical professional-liability insurance (cover story, July). I would not pretend to...

Trend.(Illustration)
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Regions should muster clusters.(Economic Outlook)
September 1, 2004... Legislation passed by the General Assembly in 2002 requires the state's seven economic-development partnerships to produce five-year plans. The 23-county AdvantageWest partnership, working with the Office of Economic Development at UNC Chapel...

Expansion treads water with jobs.(Eastern)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Goodyear is spending $17.7 million to upgrade its Kelly-Springfield tire plant in Fayetteville to produce larger tires, mostly for sport utility vehicles. No jobs will be created, but executives say the project might help preserve some of the...

Livedo.(Eastern)(medical supplies plant planned)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... WILSON -- Ehime, Japan-based Livedo will build a $35 million plant here that will employ about 75 making disposable medical supplies such as adult diapers and cleaning materials. Most of the jobs will pay more than Wilson County's average wage...

EasternNC Natural Gas.(Eastern)(North Carolina)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... HAVELOCK -- Craven and 13 other counties will get natural-gas service by the end of the year, EasternNC Natural Gas officials say. Construction of main lines is being paid for in part by a $200 million state bond issue approved in 1998 and $22...

Toastmaster.(Eastern)(employee policy)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... LAURINBURG -- Toastmaster, a maker of appliances, will have to pay a former employee here $166 a week until she finds a job. The state Supreme Court ruled that companies can't fire workers who can't do their jobs because of work-related...

McCarty.(Eastern)(construction contracts)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... FAYETTEVILLE -- Austin, Tex.-based McCarty won a $17 million contract to build four Fort Bragg barracks that can house more than 240 soldiers. They should be done by May 2006.

A plan to build a 400-foot, $1 million lighted tower to attract tourists is dead.(Eastern)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... FAYETTEVILLE -- A plan to build a 400-foot, $1 million lighted tower to attract tourists is dead. The City Council approved it in December, but residents complained that it would be ugly and cost too much.

Ocean Dunes.(Eastern)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... KURE BEACH -- Residents of Ocean Dunes condominiums and the complex's president will repay the federal government $900,000 to settle accusations that they submitted false flood claims after Hurricane Fran in 1996.

Working capital.(Eastern)(Brief Article)
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Restatement has investors seeing red.(Triangle)(Red Hat Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Raleigh-based Red Hat, which sells and services the Linux computer-operating system, faces at least 15 class-action lawsuits after announcing it will restate earnings from the past three years. Milberg Weiss, the New York law firm that recently...

Salix Pharmaceuticals.(Triangle)(selling a treatment for diarrhea)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... RALEIGH -- Salix Pharmaceuticals started selling Xifaxan, a treatment for diarrhea. The company hasn't released sales projections, but it expects sales of Xifaxan and its two ulcerative-colitis remedies already on the market to lead it to...

Atlanta-based BWAY, which makes steel and plastic containers, purchased North America Packaging.(Triangle)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... RALEIGH -- Atlanta-based BWAY, which makes steel and plastic containers, purchased North America Packaging. Terms weren't disclosed. North America Packaging, which makes rigid plastic containers, had 2003 sales of $220 million and employs about...

Adherex Technologies.(Triangle)(management)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... DURHAM -- Drug developer Adherex Technologies moved from Ottawa in July and filed notice with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to be listed on a U.S. exchange. Adherex has no products on the market but has four cancer drugs under...

TriVirix.(Triangle)(bought plants from Medtronics)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... DURHAM -- Medical-device maker TriVirix bought plants in Denmark and Salt Lake City from Minneapolis-based Medtronics, increasing employment from 220 to 435. Terms weren't disclosed, but TriVirix says sales will increase from $25 million in...

Ultimus.(Triangle)(sales offices)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... CARY -- Ultimus, which makes software to manage business processes such as expense reimbursements, opened a sales office in Italy as part of its international expansion. It plans to open another office in Europe and two in Latin America by...

Merck.(Triangle)(Merck and Company Inc. bought 262 acres in Durham )(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... DURHAM -- Whitehouse Station, N.J.-based Merck bought 262 acres in Durham for a vaccine factory. The company paid about $10.7 million, most of it covered by a $10.5 million state grant. The plant is expected to employ about 200 when production...

Synthon Pharmaceuticals.(Triangle)(location changes)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK -- Dutch drug maker Synthon Pharmaceuticals plans to move its U.S. headquarters here. The $10.3 million investment should create about 155 jobs. The company had about 35 employees in Chapel Hill. They will move to the...

Charles River Laboratories International.(Triangle)(to buy Inveresk Research for $1.5 billion )(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... CARY -- Wilmington, Mass.-based Charles River Laboratories International agreed to buy Inveresk Research for $1.5 billion in cash and stock. Both companies conduct drug research and testing. The deal is scheduled to close in the fourth quarter....

Amkor Technology.(Triangle)(to buy Unitive for $46 million)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK -- West Chester, Pa.-based Amkor Technology, which makes and tests semiconductors, agreed to buy chip maker Unitive for about $46 million. The deal, which was expected to close in the fourth quarter, includes a 60% stake...

M.L. Morgan Enterprises.(Triangle)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... SMITHFIELD -- Johnston County commissioners rejected a proposal from Knightdale-based M.L. Morgan Enterprises to move a trucking terminal near here. Morgan would have operated about 15 trucks from the terminal and employed about 20. The...

Progress Energy.(Triangle)(taxation)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Executives at Raleigh-based Progress Energy expect the Internal Revenue Service to rule against the utility in an audit of its use of $942 million in tax credits for synthetic fuel production. The audit should be completed by the end of summer....

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems.(Triad)(moving jobs)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... GREENSBORO -- Arlington, Va.-based General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems will move at least 50 of its approximately 300 Triad jobs to Massachusetts and Virginia during the next year. The company, part of Falls Church, Va.-based General...

Gildan Activewear.(Triad)(expasions)
September 1, 2004... EDEN -- Montreal-based shirt maker Gildan Activewear plans to expand its warehouse here and create 50 to 100 jobs in the next three years. It employs about 150. When finished in December, the $12.5 million expansion will double the size of...

Shamrock Environmental.(Triad)(Shamrock Environmental Corporation)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... GREENSBORO -- Shamrock Environmental will add 25 employees this year, partly because of a $600,000 contract with FedEx and Piedmont Triad International Airport. Shamrock has 157 employees. Ten new employees will work on a contract to redirect...

Forsyth Technical Community College.(Triad)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Forsyth Technical Community College is building an extension campus in King on 53 acres of land it recently bought. It will cost about $7 million, include about 40,000 square feet of classroom space and be completed by fall 2007. Forsyth Tech...

Office tower set to take off near PTI.(Triad)(Piedmont Triad International Airport)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Falk Cos., a Greensboro-based real-estate developer, plans to build an office tower at least 221 feet--14 stories--tall near Piedmont Triad International Airport. The building could be as tall as 360 feet--25 stories--making it one of the...

Luwa Industrial Piping.(Triad)(to create 20 jobs)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... KING -- Luwa Industrial Piping, part of Switzerland-based Zellweger Luwa Group, will create more than 20 jobs here in the next two years. Zellweger Luwa employs about 110 in Winston-Salem. The division makes pipe for power production, chemical...

Fuel distributor Quality Oil bought Smitherman Oil of Pfafftown.(Triad)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... WINSTON-SALEM -- Fuel distributor Quality Oil bought Smitherman Oil of Pfafftown. Terms weren't disclosed. Quality Oil, which has 750 employees, kept Smitherman's 10.

TransTech Pharma.(Triad)(finance)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... HIGH POINT -- TransTech Pharma got $10 million in venture-capital financing in July and expects $20 million more by early 2005. New York venture firm MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings is the current round's primary investor. TransTech Pharma, which...

Pike Electric.(Triad)(bought Red Simpson)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... MOUNT AIRY -- Pike Electric, which installs power lines and builds substations, bought Alexandria, La.-based Red Simpson. Terms weren't disclosed. Pike has more than 6,300 employees--900 in North Carolina--and says that the deal makes it the...

BofA puts it on plastic and baseball.(Charlotte)(Bank of America)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Charlotte-based Bank of America will create the country's second-largest credit-card processor when it closes on its $1.4 billion cash purchase of Louisville, Ky.-based National Processing, expected in the fourth quarter. BofA will combine the...

The Cypress Group.(Charlotte)(to buy Dana's automotive-aftermarket group)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... GASTONIA -- Toledo, Ohio-based Dana agreed to sell its automotive-aftermarket group to New York-based private equity firm The Cypress Group for $1.1 billion. The sale, expected to close in the third quarter, includes the Wix Filtration Products...

Carlisle.(Charlotte)(bought Trintex)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... CHARLOTTE -- Carlisle, a maker of construction and industrial products, bought Trintex, a Bowdon, Ga.-based maker of tires and wheels. Terms weren't disclosed.

Hickory Regional Airport.(Charlotte)(resurfacing and lighting grants from Federal Aviation Administration )(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... HICKORY -- Hickory Regional Airport received a $1 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration for runway resurfacing and lighting. Officials hope the renovations will bring commercial air service back to the airport. Arlington,...

Poppelmann.(Charlotte)(factory and warehouse planned)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... CLAREMONT -- Germany-based Poppelmann, a maker of plastic parts for the horticulture and automotive industries, will build a 33,000-square-foot factory and 55,000-square-foot warehouse here. Construction is expected to begin this fall. It will...

Kings Mountain International.(Charlotte)(plans to begin operations)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... KINGS MOUNTAIN -- Metal processor Kings Mountain International will begin operations here in October. It will employ about 30 initially and plans to add 70 workers within three years.

Southern Ideal Door.(Charlotte)(distribution center opened)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... CHARLOTTE -- Southern Ideal Door opened a distribution center here. The Duluth, Ga.-based wholesaler of doors, gas fireplaces and gas-fireplace logs employs nine and expects to have about 25 employees within four years.

Caraustar Industries.(Charlotte)(factory closures)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... CHARLOTTE -- Caraustar Industries, an Atlanta-based recycled-packaging company, will close its factory here by the end of the year, cutting about 65 jobs. It makes products such as cereal boxes.

Hunter Douglas Designer Shades.(Charlotte)(location changes)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... BESSEMER CITY -- Hunter Douglas Designer Shades, part of Upper Saddle River, N.J.-based Hunter Douglas, moved its headquarters from an 85,000-square-foot plant in Gastonia to a 185,000-square-foot plant here. It employs about 200 making window...

Eastman Kodak.(Charlotte)(film-processing lab closed)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... CHARLOTTE -- Rochester, N.Y.-based Eastman Kodak will close its film-processing lab here by September, cutting 100 jobs.

Shurtape Technologies.(Charlotte)(distribution center planned)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... CATAWBA -- Hickory-based Shurtape Technologies, an adhesive-tape maker, will spend about $6 million to build a 139,000-square-foot distribution center here by the end of the year. It will employ 27 initially and could add 10 employees within...

Black & Decker.(Charlotte)(distribution center planned)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... CHARLOTTE -- Black & Decker, a Towson, Md.-based maker of power tools and home-improvement products, is building a 350,000-square-foot distribution center here. It will open in early 2005 and employ 100.

Dalco Nonwovens.(Charlotte)(fabric mill opened)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... CONOVER -- Dalco Nonwovens opened a $6.5 million, 60,000-square-foot fabric mill here. It employs 14, and its owner plans to expand the work force to 20 by year-end.

Gregory.(Charlotte)(distribution center opened)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... CHARLOTTE -- Buhler, Kan.-based Gregory, a supplier of sign-making materials, opened a distribution center here. It employs five.

Duke Energy.(Charlotte)(cases)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Charlotte-based Duke Energy agreed to settle claims related to the energy crisis in the western United States in 2000 and 2001. It will pay $207.5 million in cash and credits to California, Washington, Oregon, federal agencies, three California...

City spins multiuse complex from mill.(Western)(Forest City)(Burnt Chimney Square)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Forest City bought a 100-year-old textile-mill complex on 9 acres downtown and plans to turn it into condominiums, shops, restaurants, a performing-arts center and a textile museum. The city paid $300,000 for Florence Mill, which was owned by...

NAPCO.(Western)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... SPARTA -- NAPCO, which makes game boards, puzzles and related products, will hire about 15 workers by the end of the year, increasing employment to about 100.

Land-of-Sky Regional Council.(Western)(Environmental Protection Agency )(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... ASHEVILLE -- Land-of-Sky Regional Council, a local-government planning body, received about $1.4 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to identify and evaluate hazardous property that might be cleaned up and developed.

Henderson County commissioners approved a growth plan tying development to preservation of farms and availability of water and sewer services.(Western)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... HENDERSONVILLE -- Henderson County commissioners approved a growth plan tying development to preservation of farms and availability of water and sewer services. Intended to curb sprawl, it divides the county into urban, rural-transition and...

Earth Fare.(Western)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... ASHEVILLE -- Earth Fare opened health-food stores in Boone and Knoxville, Tenn. The chain now has nine stores in the Carolinas, Tennessee and Georgia.

WCQS-FM will acquire the license of Mars Hill College's WVMH-FM, move the transmitter and boost power.(Western)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... ASHEVILLE -- WCQS-FM will acquire the license of Mars Hill College's WVMH-FM, move the transmitter and boost power. The project will take about a year and cost $100,000. The station, which probably will be assigned new call letters, will...

9/11 attacks could hurt Triad Hebrew academy.(Tar Heel Tattler)(Greensboro boarding school )
September 1, 2004... It's unlikely that Muslim hijackers had the American Hebrew Academy on their radar Sept. 11, 2001, when they crashed jetliners into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in southern Pennsylvania. After all, the Greensboro boarding...

Hospitals engage in life-or-death contest.(Tar Heel Tattler)
September 1, 2004... Good Hope versus Betsy Johnson doesn't exactly evoke images of Ali versus Frazier. But the two Harnett County hospitals are entering the third year of a health-care fight, and neither shows signs of retreating. But then, neither can. They both...

Lawyers prosper by poor-mouthpiecing.(Tar Heel Tattler)
September 1, 2004... Joe Cheshire once advocated paying lawyers in private practice rather than full-time public defenders to represent poor people in Wake County who can't afford a lawyer. But he has changed his mind now that the program is paying some of them...

Good to Great.(What They're Reading)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Mackey McDonald, CEO, VF Good to Great by Jim Collins Collins explores the strategies and organizational infrastructure that allowed 11 companies to refuse settling for the norm and instead redefine it. His solid research supports a...

Good to Great.(What They're Reading)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Joan Myers, CEO, North Carolina Electronics and Information Technologies Association Good to Great by Jim Collins This book begins by stating that "good is the enemy of great." This single thought shapes every page. It is truly a...

From Warrior to Healder: 99 True Stories from a General to His Children.(What They're Reading)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Thad Woodard, CEO, North Carolina Bankers Association From Warrior to Healer: 99 True Stories from a General to His Children by Bernard Loeffke He was the commanding general of the U.S. Army in Central America. That's his tough side....

NASCAR fined Jimmie Johnson $10,000.(Tattle Tales)(National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... * Ad clutter: NASCAR fined Jimmie Johnson $10,000 for using a Lowe's sign to hide the giant PowerAde bottle placed on his car in Victory Lane at Pocono Raceway in Pennsylvania. PowerAde, made by Coca-Cola, is a NASCAR sponsor; Lowe's is...

Fortunately for NASCAR and PowerAde, the Lowe's sign fell off while Johnson was being interviewed.(Tattle Tales)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... * Polite to a fault: Fortunately for NASCAR and PowerAde, the Lowe's sign fell off while Johnson was being interviewed. A helpful NASCAR employee picked it up and put it back where it was.

Pepsi also sponsors Johnson's Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jeff Gordon.(Tattle Tales)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... * Pass the bottle: Pepsi also sponsors Johnson's Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jeff Gordon, who celebrated winning the Brickyard 400 in Indianapolis at the finish line. He never made it to Victory Lane, where the rival bottle beckoned.

Greensboro Generals.(Tattle Tales)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... * The puck stops here: The Greensboro Generals won more games than they lost last year. But the city, trying to save the minor-league hockey team, spent more money than it took in, so it ended its one-year run at the helm. It never found a...

Lowes Foods.(Tattle Tales)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... * Battered child: Durham police responded to a complaint about a baby's foot found in a box of frozen chicken bought at Lowes Foods. The state medical examiner's office determined it was dough that somebody had shaped to resemble a foot.

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts.(Tattle Tales)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... * For cops on the go: Winston-Salem-based Krispy Kreme Doughnuts launched a line of frozen, blended drinks, starting with Original Kreme, whose flavor is meant to simulate a glazed doughnut.

"Nature Boy" Ric Flair.(Tattle Tales)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... * Blonde ambition: "Nature Boy" Ric Flair is a legend in professional wrestling for, among other things, "stylin' and profilin'." Add writin' to the list. The Charlotte resident's autobiography, To Be the Man, broke into the top 10 on The New...

U.S. Forest Service.(Tattle Tales)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... * From a male pouch: A U.S. Forest Service officer, cracking down on poaching in Macon County, found a pair of deer testicles in his mailbox. It didn't deter him. Thirteen men were convicted on 269 counts.

Meg Scott Phipps.(Tattle Tales)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... * Fowl play: What is it with state agriculture commissioners? Just months after our own Meg Scott Phipps was sent to prison, South Carolina's was suspended after being indicted on federal charges of taking money to protect a cockfighting ring....

Rutherford County has the highest percentage of residents in a North Carolina community college ...(Data Bits)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
September 1, 2004... Rutherford County has the highest percentage of residents in a North Carolina community college... Rutherford 9.8% Mitchell 8.9 Columbus 8.8 Caswell 8.7 Bladen 8.7 ... and Currituck County...

Figuratively speaking.(Manufacturing industries)(Americans)(Youth)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... * Rank of trucks/trailers, printing presses and medical devices as the top three repossessions in 2003: 1, 2, 3. Machine tools and construction equipment: 4, 5. * Value of U.S. direct manufacturing revenue that could move to a lower-cost...

BB & T's COO was one of the original fab five.(People)(Chief operating officers)(Kelly King)(Branch Banking and Trust Co.)
September 1, 2004... When Kelly King finished business school at East Carolina University in 1971, he had four job offers. Three were out of state, too far away for the Zebulon native. The other was from "a little old Eastern North Carolina bank" he had never heard...

His firm sees some explosive growth.(People)(Manuel Zapata)(Duke Power Co.)
September 1, 2004... Manuel Zapata's back was against the wall after he was laid off in November 1988 as a manager of cost engineering at Duke Power Co. He had a wife and two young children at home in Charlotte. His stab at importing agricultural products from his...

Medicine man grows by thinking small.(People)(Frank King)(King Bio Pharmaceuticals Inc.)
September 1, 2004... Frank King grew up on a 450-acre farm in New Castle, Pa., where his family raised cattle and ran a restaurant and a motel. It gave him exposure to running a farm and a business. It's experience he uses in Asheville, where he is president of...

Cell-phone tower owner signals a new strategy.(Money Matters)(Stephen Clark)
September 1, 2004... At the turn of the 21st century, Stephen Clark's company was buying communication towers as if they were going out of style. From its start in 1997 through the end of 2000, Cary-based SpectraSite Inc. (NYSE: SSI) acquired and leased antenna...

Tar Heel stock watch.(Illustration)
September 1, 2004... Top 10 large-cap stocks 3-month 1-year 52-week Company change (1) change range Nucor 40.8% 74.5% $45.20-84.90 Inveresk Research Group 28.2 ...

Will Edwards get down to business?(Capital)
September 1, 2004... Politics' perpetual Happy Face is giving a lot of North Carolina businesspeople heartburn. Most didn't vote for John Edwards six years ago when he promised prosperity with a smile and spent his way past a lackluster incumbent to become the...

More members mean more money for ACC.(Sports Section)(Atlantic Coast Conference)
September 1, 2004... Mike Crittenden, 25, grew up in Maine and graduated in 2001 from Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Va. Yet one of his greatest thrills was attending the Atlantic Coast Conference basketball tournament in Greensboro in 2002. "You could...

Changing channels: even when the reception was good, nobody had a clear picture of these Southern Pines enterprises.(Feature)(Gatelinx Communicator)
September 1, 2004... Starting over is nothing new for David Hagen. He's doing it again after a fight with its only supplier wiped out Southern Pines-based Prime TV LLC, a seller of satellite-television systems that he expected to generate $70 million in revenue...

Legal tinder: Tar Heel CEO pay didn't increase as much in 2003, but it still fans the flames of shareholder discontent.(Chief executive officer)
September 1, 2004... High in the 60-story office tower that is the apex of Charlotte's skyline, Ken Lewis huddled last December with some fellow members of his board of directors. Bank of America Corp. was wrapping up its best year ever: Net income would reach...

Pay vs. performance.(Illustration)
September 1, 2004... 2004 CEO COMPENSATION rank Exchange/ Base 2003 CEO/ Ticker/ salary rank Company City (000s) Change...

The diplomat: UNCC Chancellor Jim Woodward turned a commuter school into a research university by making sure it knew its place.(Feature)(University of North Carolina Charlotte)
September 1, 2004... On a February morning in 1999, Gov. Jim Hunt, state Commerce Secretary Rick Carlisle, UNC President Molly Broad and other dignitaries strode onto a stage in a UNC Charlotte auditorium. They came to praise the $100 million service center that...