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Listen to the full conversation by clicking the audio above. And a Charlotte Ledger reader asked if low-cost airline Breeze Airways might be adding Charlotte to its 16-city offering after seeing one of its planes at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.'It's still a very small percentage of overall music sales.' 'Yes, vinyl is making a comeback,' he said.Although there's been a vinyl resurgence in recent years, Mecia says it wasn't enough to sustain the store. Manifest Discs, a record store that has been open since 1999 on South Boulevard, closed last week.

'These sorts of things happen all the time where, for whatever reason, the owner of a shopping center or any commercial property will sell it, find a willing buyer,' Mecia said. It remains to be seen.'īlakeney and Blakeney Crossing shopping centers in south Charlotte have been sold - but don't expect big changes. But that's, you know, that still many steps away. 'They might have to knock it down and start fresh with something different in its place. 'I don't really have any inside information on what's going to happen, but I think the prevailing sentiment is that something is going to have to be redone there,' Mecia said. That means ownership would transfer to the bank, Mecia said, and the bank would have an auction to sell the property to a new owner. This week, after the Epicentre had not been making payments on an $85 million loan, there was a court hearing in which the site said it would head to foreclosure.

'And the next thing you know, the Epicentre is now 70% vacant,' Mecia said. South End developed into a nightlife destination, there were a couple shootings at the Epicentre in 2019 and fewer people visited. Check out the weekly specials and shop vitamins, beauty, medicine & more at. A wide range of research takes place through EPIC. 'But people's preferences are fickle sometimes, and they sort of move on,' Mecia said. Find store hours and driving directions for your CVS pharmacy in Charlotte, NC. The Epicentre opened in 2008, and was once the 'hotspot uptown, appropriately named,' Mecia said. To listen to the full conversation, click the audio above. EPIC is a state-of-the-art applied research center at UNC Charlotte educating future energy sector professionals and collaborating with industry to solve. WFAE's 'Morning Edition' host Marshall Terry talks with the Charlotte Ledger Business Newsletter's Tony Mecia about that and other business news in the latest BizWorthy. The fate of the once vibrant entertainment spot had been up in the air after its owner defaulted on an $85 million loan earlier this year. That’s according to a court overseeing the receivership of the complex. Once the hub of nightlife in uptown, Charlotte’s Epicentre is going into foreclosure.

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