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Who has designs on Design Center site?

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Published April 30, 2009 at 5:27 a.m.

(By Doug Smith, dsmith@charlotteobserver.com) The vacant Home Depot Design Center building in midtown Charlotte has caught the eye of some big name stores, local real estate brokers say ... Whole Foods, Kohl's, Costco Wholesale, Sam's Club, BJ's Wholesale Club and Wal-Mart are among the names they say have checked out the location on Charlottetowne Avenue, where the Metropolitan mixed-use development has replaced Midtown Square shopping center ... Home Depot, which closed the 127,653-square-foot

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City's attitude toward blocked restaurants is indefensible

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Published April 21, 2009 at 6:00 a.m.

By Tricia Childress ... Most of Charlotte's business focus these past few months has been centered on the intersection of Trade and Tryon streets: the Bank of America tower. However, if you drive south on East Trade, another drama has been simmering. At the intersection of Charlottetowne Avenue, Elizabeth Avenue is barricaded. The City of Charlotte has been involved with a street project of burying utilities and installing streetcar rails for a line which, eventually, will run down

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