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With the Smithville Revitalization Plan, community members hope to breathe new life into an aging Black neighborhood, bringing new residents while also maintaining affordability and history.
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Two proposed developments that eventually could add more than 800 housing units and a brewery near downtown Cornelius passed the town board in unanimous 5-0 votes Tuesday night.
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Atrium Health has received state approval to build a new hospital in Cornelius. The facility, called Atrium Health Lake Norman, will have 30 beds and two operating rooms and is expected to open in early 2024.
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Cornelius-based Aquesta Financial Holdings, parent of Aquesta Bank, is being sold to United Community Banks of Greenville, South Carolina, for $131 million.
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A $25 million regional arts center breaks ground Friday in downtown Cornelius. Town officials say the project has sparked other residential and commercial development nearby, including a brewery and apartments.
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A Cornelius community group told town commissioners Monday it needs financial support from the town and Mecklenburg County to carry out a proposed $11 million redevelopment of the historically Black Smithville neighborhood.
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Leaders in the historically Black neighborhood of Smithville in Cornelius will present the town board Monday night with an updated revitalization plan they hope will fend off gentrification.
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Community and church leaders are renewing calls for the removal of a Confederate monument in Cornelius erected by a private group 110 years ago. The…
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Gov. Roy Cooper's decision Thursday to extend a statewide stay-at-home order until May 8 averts a showdown over whether Mecklenburg County should extend…
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Lake Norman is a major destination for visitors north of Charlotte. Nearby downtown Cornelius isn't. But organizers say a planned $25 million regional…