Charlotte Weekend Update| Things To Do, Business and Real Estate Notes
June 5th, 2009 Categories: About Charlotte, Charlotte Homes for Sale
Fun things to do this weekend in Charlotte, June 5-7
It’s a busy weekend in Charlotte, a few of the highlights:
Krispy Kreme offers a free doughnut today, no purchase required!That’s a stimulus!
Taste of Charlotte- a quick culinary tour of Charlotte, 6/5-6/7
Gallery crawls: Both NoDa and Historic South End have gallery crawls Friday. The NoDa crawl features Free Music Friday at the Evening Muse.
Charlotte Shakespeare Festival continues (this weekend and next) with multiple performances of Twelfth Night.
A WWII Encampment at Charlotte Museum of History Saturday, June 6, honoring the 65th anniversary of D-Day
Imaginon- daily events, mostly free, take the train in or free parking underground, engaging activities for pre-schoolers to teens
visit my friend at Charlotteonthcheap.com for more
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Business Notes from Charlotte NC
North Carolina announced that Apple computer will invest $1Billion in North Carolina and will, in all likelihood, be in one of the economically hard pressed counties (Cleveland and Caldwell mentioned most often) within 50-70 miles of Charlotte. Their “East Coast Data Center” will employ about 50 skilled workers, however economic spinoff is expected to be much higher. Google already operates a similar center in Caldwell County North Carolina, since 2006.
Ethan Allen announced the addition of 302 new jobs at it’s Maiden plant, an investment that will ake 3 years to fully realize. Good news for our furniture industry.
Mortgage Lenders are hiring! Despite the recent interest rate uptick, new purchases are driving the process! yea!
Mecklenburg County foreclosures are up, way up over 2008. For the year, a 30% increase over 2008 through May.
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Real Estate Notes
Pending Home sales rose 6.4% in May, generally a good sign. However, I fear it is on the backs of increased foreclosures and dirt cheap houses. Pending sales fell in the South .2% even as Charlotte fared better.
Here is a very cool Charlotte New Home tool if you want to search exclusively for new homes: From Lake Norman to Fort Mill, Waxhaw to Huntersville, if its new, its here.
Charlotte New Homes
In addition, new pages have been added at TerryMcDonald Real Estate.com, including pages for Matthews Homes and Waxhaw-Weddington Homes which will help families relocating to Charlotte look at these areas more closely.
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