The city of Charlotte has agreed to sell 2.2 acres of city-owned land in the rapidly gentrifying Cherry neighborhood to a developer who has pledged to build 30 affordable rental housing units, in hopes it will help keep the historically African-American neighborhood near uptown affordable. Some council members questioned whether the city was selling the property too cheaply, at $227,000 per acre, when developer Stoney Sellars in May sold lots at about $526,000 per acre.
You braved the crowded stores on Gray Thursday and Black Friday, shopped locally on Small Business Saturday and online on Cyber Monday. Now, more than five dozen Charlotte-area nonprofit organizations have a request for you: Send a little money their way on Giving Tuesday.
An Ohio State University football player who had been missing since Wednesday has been found dead in a dumpster from what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Columbus police said Sunday. The body of defensive lineman Kosta Karageorge was found at East 6th Avenue and Courtland Avenue near the Ohio State campus.
An appeals judge in Qatar on Sunday cleared American couple Matthew and Grace Huang of starving their adopted daughter to death in 2013, in a case that drew global attention to the Middle Eastern nation’s justice system. However, the couple were blocked from leaving Qatar on Sunday by immigration officials at Hamad International Airport, who confiscated their passports. “It is time now, as the Appeals Court stated, to let the Huangs return home,” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement.
This article appears in Nov 25 – Dec 2, 2014.
