Business
Mooresville mayor gets on board with I-77 Business Plan
Feb. 9. By Dave Yochum. If you think the I-77 battle is over, you’re wrong. It has expanded and moved into Iredell County. Mooresville Mayor Miles Atkins attended a special business briefing Monday held by two anti-toll groups: The I-77 Business Plan and WidenI-77.org, the original anti-toll group. It’s a coup for the anti-toll team, which was stung by a judge’s […]
Aquesta Bank will open Wilmington branch
Feb. 2. Cornelius-based Aquesta Bank will open a full service bank branch in Wilmington, proof, perhaps, that the Aquesta name and logo translates well to an upscale, waterfont-oriented marketplace. Aquesta Financial Holdings officials said they “recently finalized the purchase of a soon-to-be full-service bank branch” in Wilmington. While no other details were immediately available, the […]
Bank of America: Broken glass, no robbery
Feb. 1. Cornelius Police were blocking access to the Bank of America branch on West Catawba this morning, but it looks like there wasn’t a robbery. Police on the scene said someone may have attempted to gain access to the inside of the bank through the teller window, before going to the front of the bank […]
Aquesta reports higher net income for quarter, year
Jan. 27. Aquesta Financial Holdings, Inc. and subsidiaries, including its primary subsidiary Aquesta Bank, announced today unaudited net income of $387,00 (15 cents per share) for the fourth quarter of 2015. This is an increase from the 2014’s fourth-quarter income of $368,000, or 14 cents per share. For the twelve months ending Dec. 31, 2015, […]
Business, trash back to normal
Jan. 25. Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools are closed, but most businesses in Cornelius will open and operate as usual. Garbage service is up and running, with the town’s contractor doing Friday’s route today as well as Monday’s regular route. Banks will open after many of them took a three-day snow holiday. If your trash collection was […]
CRTPO vote galvanized LKN opposition to tolls
Jan. 22. You might call it Pyrrhic victory, one that causes as much harm to the winner as it does to those who appear to have been defeated. The Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization did just as expected last night, voting 50-12, based on a weighted voting system, to approve the concept of managed lanes […]
Coffee entrepreneurs steeped in careful attention to service, costs, atmosphere
By Dave Vieser. If you like to start your day with a cup of coffee—or four or five—locally owned coffee shops abound in Cornelius. Waterbean is the entrepreneurs’ meeting hang-out, Charlie’s Coffeehouse has business networking meetings, Davidson-based Summit Coffee has opened a roasting operation here and What the Cup is expected to open in the old […]
LKN Chamber gala spoke volumes
There was a big turnout—200 people—for the Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce annual gala Friday night at The Peninsula Club. What the attendees heard and saw was an apparently unified business organization ready to do battle with Gov. Pat McCrory and the Charlotte Chamber. RELATED: Powerpoint presentation on the Lake Norman Chamber’s 2015 awards Plenty happened Friday night: Outgoing […]
Postmaster addresses growth and challenges in Cornelius
By Dave Yochum. It’s the December “busy season” at the U.S. Post Office on Liverpool, where Gladys Torres runs the operation. She’s the postmistress for the Zip Code we all know by heart: 28031. The package volume after Thanksgiving literally quadruples, said Torres who grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. On the job a total of 24 […]
You say you want a revolution
By Dave Yochum. “Target Acquired.” That’s the subject line on a recent email that race team executive Greg Wallace sent to his cohorts in the I-77 Business Plan, a high-level group of mostly Cornelius business leaders who are fighting the 50-year contract the NCDOT has inked with Cintra, a unit of Ferrovial. A room at the […]
