Charlotte City Council

The promotion is fascinating on a few levels: For starters, Tariq Bokhari's new transit job coincides with Charlotte’s multibillion-dollar transit ambitions.

The Charlotte City Council on Monday discussed the city's bid to bring the CIAA back to Charlotte. It moved to Baltimore in 2021.

Charlotte’s transportation committee plans to vote on updates to the city’s plan to electrify buildings and transportation while improving energy efficiency.

Charlotte Mayor Pro Tem Danté Anderson and several City Council members have not filed campaign finance reports in a year.

The Charlotte City Council's Job and Economic Development Committee approved a request to ask for more funding to build a sports complex at the former Eastland site.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission voted in December to make the 110-year-old Steele Creek Presbyterian Manse a landmark. The recommendation was never passed on to the Charlotte City Council.

The race is not to run against Vi Lyles. But to succeed her, whenever she decides not to run again. But last Monday's City Council vote to spend $650 million to renovate Bank of America Stadium was the unofficial campaign opening for several council members, even if we don’t know when that campaign will be.

The Charlotte City Council voted 7-3 Monday night to approve spending $650 million worth of tax money to help renovate Bank of America Stadium. Under the deal, Tepper Sports and Entertainment would contribute $150 million of its own money to the improvements in the next four years, for a total of $800 million, and would then spend roughly $420 million more on the stadium in the decade after that.

Despite the huge sum of money at stake, and Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper’s checkered past when it comes to fulfilling public development plans, the five committee members showed little interest in asking hard questions about the proposal, which would keep the Carolina Panthers and Charlotte FC here for 15 years.