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Chapel Hill To Introduce New Pay-By-Phone System For Metered Parking
Posted by Staff | May 8, 2013 | Development
CHAPEL HILL – Beginning Thursday, you can pay for metered public parking in Chapel Hill with your smart phone. But— each transaction costs 35 cents on top of the parking fee. “I’m really hoping that it will make people’s...
Read MoreBicycle Apartments To Bring Hundreds Of Students Closer To Downtown Chapel Hill
Posted by Staff | May 8, 2013 | Development
CHAPEL HILL – The Bicycle Apartments—a $20-million student-housing project less than a mile from Downtown Chapel Hill—broke ground Wednesday morning. Town leaders say it will re-invigorate the Downtown economy in more ways...
Read MoreLaUNCh, 18 New Businesses Open
Posted by Ran Northam | May 1, 2013 | Development
Chapel Hill’s downtown venture lab opened Wednesday night ushering 18 start-up businesses into to the community.
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Read MoreCameron’s Gift Shop Likely To Be First Open In Carrboro’s 300 E. Main
Posted by Staff | May 1, 2013 | Development
CHAPEL HILL – Cameron’s gift shop is changing locations after 32 years in University Mall. It’s moving to the 300 East Main re-development space – the project that hopes to be the entertainment, dining, and shopping center...
Read MoreLaUNCh Chapel Hill To Launch Wednesday
Posted by Ran Northam | May 1, 2013 | Development
Eighteen start-up businesses celebrate with the official opening of LaUNCh Wednesday in Downtown Chapel Hill.
Read MoreChapel Hill Celebrates 140 West Grand Opening
Posted by Staff | Apr 26, 2013 | Development, Uncategorized
CHAPEL HILL – Blue LED lights illuminated the 140 West Plaza Friday night after the unveiling of the sculpture, “Exhale,” by landscape artist Mikyoung Kim. The stainless steal design released fog into the night air as the Studio...
Read More140 West Grand Opening Is Almost Here, After A Decade Of Work
Posted by Staff | Apr 25, 2013 | Development
CHAPEL HILL – 140 West—the eight-story, $55 million development on Franklin Street – has been more than a decade in the making. And the town will gather Friday night to celebrate its grand opening. “We knew that there was...
Read MoreChatham County Courthouse Returns
Posted by Ran Northam | Apr 21, 2013 | Development
PITTSBORO – Chatham County Board of Commissioners chair Walter Petty says the three year wait to reopen the historic courthouse was well worth it. “It was a tragic loss,” Petty says. “To see it rebuilt and restored to this...
Read MoreChapel Hill Library Officially Opens Its Doors Saturday
Posted by Ran Northam | Apr 19, 2013 | Development
CHAPEL HILL – Saturday’s re-dedication of the Chapel Hill Public Library nearly brings the ten-year reconstruction process to an end at a time when interim director Mark Bayles says couldn’t have come sooner. “The...
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