CGE Venture Group

06/01/2022

Right here, right now. Just look at the map!

Climate Central and Queen City News/FOX Charlotte collaborated to investigate the rollout of electric vehicles and charging stations in Charlotte.

04/06/2022

Commissioners voted unanimously for more than a million dollars in tax breaks to help with infrastructure costs. In return, some of the homes would be affordable.

03/15/2022

This is going to be a great space!

Zoom out: The corridor is rich in history, but for decades, public and private investment lagged. Now it’s picking up, which brings the promise of economic development, but also concerns surrounding gentrification.

03/04/2022

Please keep expanding! Beatties Ford Rd is ready for you!

Expect LuLu’s Maryland Style Chicken & Seafood’s new location in Plaza Midwood to become a flagship for the brand. It’s now in its soft opening phase.

01/23/2022

"Charlotte cannot afford to go back. We have to keep moving forward in how we prepare for the growth," says the city's planning director, who has led big initiatives on that front since starting his work here in 2015.

12/09/2021

Tino McFarland and his wife Tamara started their construction company in the third bedroom of their Charlotte, North Carolina, townhouse in 2010. Today, McFarland Construction employs more than 50 people and is one of the city’s largest Black-owned...

12/06/2021

How much development is the Beatties Ford Rd Corridor going to miss out on because of a lack of adequate parking? Equitable?

A band performs at the Excelsior Club in the late 1950s. Courtesy of the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room at the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library.

11/14/2021

There’s a lot of reviewing to do…

A massive change in how developers get projects off the ground is coming. Here's what they say about the changes.

11/05/2021

Great Job E-Fix!

“We’ve been having an amazing week on Beatties Ford Road,” said Charlotte City Councilman Malcolm Graham during the bank's ribbon-cutting event. “… This is community-building at its best. We are all doing this together.”

10/23/2021

Very good to know.

Shanté Williams, head of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Black Chamber of Commerce, says access is about more than just capital for minority-owned businesses. In an interview with CBJ, she shares her vision for the organization's next steps.

03/16/2021

There’s a lot of activity brewing just West of Uptown.

One of the developers that had submitted a bid for the Gateway Station project — Washington, D.C.-based Hoffman & Associates — said in its RFQ response the uptown site would be ideal for office, multifamily residential, retail and hotel development.

03/13/2021

An awesome piece on perseverance and the importance of having a plan!

In the nearly 11 years since McFarland Construction became a business on April 2, 2010, the company has become one of the largest Black-owned businesses in Charlotte, with $23.8 million in revenue in 2019.