Exeter marketing office project in Charlotte, will start industrial building soon

Exeter Property Group is marketing a site in Charlotte’s University City for a planned 250,000-square-foot office development called Creekside Corporate Center. And the Pennsylvania real estate investment firm expects to break ground in the next two weeks on a speculative 110,000-square-foot industrial building in Pineville, near the intersection of Westinghouse Boulevard and Interstate 485.

Exeter has an option to purchase roughly 40 acres in University City at the intersection of David Taylor…

Louisville gymnastics club taking its tumblers to Bullitt County

A Louisville gymnastics company that got its start in 1969 is taking its services to Bullitt County.

Doug Voss, owner of Louisville Gymnastics Inc. and Voss Real Estate, plans to open a branch of the gym at 10880 Ky. 44 East in Mount Washington on Monday, May 4.

“You can’t open on Derby weekend,” Voss said with a chuckle. “No one would notice.”

Voss has owned Louisville Gymnastics, a non-competitive gymnastics facility, since 1995 and said the new location is an outcrop of ongoing growth for the…

Icy roads won't stop Mansfield Council from voting on drilling ordinance Monday

Icy roads won’t stop Mansfield’s City Council from voting on new drilling regulations Monday evening.

The city announced that the meeting would take place on schedule on its Facebook page.

Mansfield ordinances require three votes by the Council. Knowing that the issue has generated a lot of public interest and the weather could make it harder for residents to attend, the city will add a public hearing to the third reading. The second reading will be March 16 and the third will be March 23.

The…

Huge 'Tysons' decals planned for tall water tower get shaved

The Tysons Partnership has lowered the volume on its plan to shout “Tysons” from a tall water tower.

In its original pitch, the partnership proposed to affix a pair of 948-square-foot signs to the 97-foot-tall, Fairfax County Water Authority-owned tower located at the intersection of Leesburg Pike and Chain Bridge Road.

But in response to county planners’ objections to large water tower signs (really, any water tower signs), Tysons’ leading advocate has halved the size of the posters to 472 square…

5 stories that businesses should follow now that Congress is back

Congress returns to Washington, D.C., this week facing a Friday deadline for funding the Department of Homeland Security. But that’s not the only game in town: I’ll be following at least five stories of interest to business this week:

Immigration dispute could lead to partial shutdown of DHS

Funding for the Department of Homeland Security expires Friday. The House passed legislation funding the agency, but it included provisions that would overturn President Barack Obama’s executive orders on immigration.…