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A Mooresville golf club will be getting the Donald Trump treatment soon.  Members of the club voted last night to sell the club to Trump for $3 million.  In return, “the Donald” says he’ll spend millions on improvements to the club. Club members hope that this will increase the value of their property.  If they had [...]

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Site Selection Magazine has named the Statesville-Mooresville micropolitan area tops in the nation for new and expanded corporate facility projects in 2011.  Not bad considering that there are 576 such areas in the country and Statesville-Mooresville has won this status 8 out of the last 10 years.  This means that the corporate world finds our [...]

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At a meeting yesterday in Mooresville of local city planners, school officials, developers and others, Barry Rigby, Principal & VP of Development of Langtree Development Company gave a brief update on progress at the highly anticipated Langtree at the Lake Development.  He showed photos of initial grading on the first phase of the project and [...]

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Iredell County is fortunate to have two excellent public school systems- the Iredell-Statesville Schools and the Mooresville Graded Schools.  Both rank very highly compared to other schools in the state and region.  Both are populated with dedicated, motivated professionals working in schools that offer an environment that is conducive to learning.  The fact that we have [...]

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I recently mentioned our city and county planners meeting with Iredell County Realtors to tell us about their plans for improving the area.  One of the most interesting parts of the presentation had to do with tuning up Statesville, both in the downtown area and in the “gateway” area of Shelton Avenue.  I knew that Statesville movers [...]

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The Charlotte Regional Realtor Association recently hosted a presentation in Mooresville of the local government planners from Iredell County, Statesville, Troutman and Mooresville.  We Realtors meet with them every year to get an overview of what’s going on in the county and to get to know the planners better so that we can get questions asked [...]

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I recently met with Brad Howard, one of the principles developing Langtree at the Lake, to find out the latest news on the development.  The economic slowdown has significantly changed the original schedule for this developement, but Brad was upbeat and feeling good since the Town of Mooresville had just recently let contracts for the [...]

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Mooresville, NC has for many years been a town that loves its baseball.  From the Mooresville Moors minor league team that was a town mainstay from 1937 to 1953 to the current American Legion Moors that draw crowds all summer long.  Now, we’ve discovered that Mooresville may have another baseball activity to call its own.  [...]

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Lots of talk in the press about the economic recovery has to do with answering the question,” When will the banks start lending to small businesses?”  Here’s a little insight on their current thinking, at least in Piedmont North Carolina. On Monday, I attended a monthly meeting of Iredell County planners, developers, school officials, economic [...]

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Mooresville, NC and Statesville, NC, Iredell County’s two largest communities, are celebrating another year of being named by Site Selection Magazine as the Number 1 Micropolitan Area in the country for new and expanded corporate facilities and projects.  They’ve received this recognition for seven out of the last eight years.  See a Record & Landmark article on this [...]

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