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Big Goals: Will Charlotte FC Draw the High Numbers It Anticipates?
Charlotte’s new Major League Soccer team has slogged through COVID, indignation over ticket prices, and other complications before it’s built a roster, much less played its first match. Team officials say they expect a packed stadium for first kick anyway
July 18, 2021
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If you wonder whether Charlotte is ready for Major League Soccer, consider this: Charlotte Football Club, the fledgling franchise that will kick off next spring, has weathered a pandemic, a yearlong delay, and a ticket pricing backlash. Yet team officials hope no, expect to set an MLS attendance record for its opening match next March.
/ You ve probably seen the Varnadore Building a tall, beige cube with graffiti on top if you ve ever driven on Independence Boulevard near uptown Charlotte.
Charlotte s Varnadore Building is set to get a makeover. While you probably don t recognize the name, you most likely have seen the building. It s that abandoned seven-story, cube-shaped building sort of by itself on Independence Boulevard near the intersection with Albemarle Road. For more about the plans for the building, we turn to Tony Mecia of the Charlotte Ledger Business Newsletter for our segment BizWorthy.
Marshall Terry: First, Tony, give us a little history of this building, which thousands of people drive by every day.
New cereal bar guaranteed to serve nostalgia by the bowl
DEANNA TAYLOR, Charlotte Observer
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Let’s go back in time. Remember those Saturday mornings, waking up early as a kid to pour the biggest bowl of your favorite cereal. If you were feeling extra fancy, you may have even mixed multiple cereals to make a special concoction. Then, you’d find your favorite spot in front of the TV and binge your Saturday morning cartoon lineup. Man, those were the days.
Luckily, we’ll soon get to relive those days. What is being deemed Charlotte’s “first exotic cereal bar,” will open on April 10 in the former Melt-In Your Mouth Cupcake location in Brevard Court.