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After years of empty floors, ghostly parking decks and tumbleweed-esque sidewalks, the city of Charlotte’s economic development staff are prepping City Council members to give some kind of public assistance for uptown office tower owners. Last Monday, economic development director Tracy Dodson invited former Ballantyne real estate executive Ned Curran to talk about how work-from-home has crippled the office market.

Rates are going up in January for Duke Energy customers in central and western North Carolina. State regulators on Friday approved a three-year, 14.6% increase, slightly less than the 15.7% Duke had asked for.

The city of Charlotte said it lost about 1,000 acres of trees from 2018 to 2022. At the current rate of loss, the city would have a 40% canopy by 2050.

Wood pellet maker Enviva reported a big quarterly loss Thursday, replaced its CEO and says it's at risk of failing because of collapsing prices and debt.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg School board races are nonpartisan, which means there’s no primary and party affiliations aren’t listed on the ballot. But that doesn’t stop political parties from promoting their own candidates — or trying to sniff out DINOs and RINOs.

The West Side Community Land Trust has purchased 32 homes in Charlotte's Hoskins neighborhood northwest of uptown and plans to keep the homes affordable.

North Carolina-based Piedmont Lithium says it expects to record its first revenues this month, after seven years of planning and investments — and that the money will help continue its development of a mine in Gaston County and other projects. That's because of a lithium mining partnership in Quebec that sent its first shipment Tuesday.

Congress gave the $6.6 billion Mountain Valley Pipeline the go-ahead last month to complete construction as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling. But that hasn't ended the fight over the 304-mile pipeline that would carry fracked gas from West Virginia to Virginia — and by extension, possibly into central North Carolina.

Something just happened in Charlotte that hasn’t happened in almost two decades. According to real estate data firm CoStar Group, developers did not break ground on any new office space in the second quarter. That’s the first time since at least 2006, according to available records. This and more on this week's BizWorthy with the Charlotte Ledger Business Newsletter's Cristina Bolling.

When the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, opens to the public on June 27, it will have been a 20-year journey — and not always an easy one.