Brian Belcher : Charlotte Real Estate : REMAX

In an unfortunate series of events, Julius Peppers, a star defensive end for the Carolina Panthers football team has been seeking to leave the team when his contract expires. He recently stated, according to the Charlotte Observer, that he will ask for a trade if the team spends the money to tag ...

It has come and gone. I'm talking about the first of two Carolina-Duke games this year. Each year, ESPN goes overboard to bring us a basketball game between two schools that really, really dislike each other.  This year's game saw the seniors of carolina sweep the Blue devils at their home stadiu...

The furniture manufacturer IKEA is openining one of its stores in the Charlotte NC Area. The store is 350,000 square feet. The Charlotte Business journal says that they will decorate a corner of uptown Charlotte with a fully furninshed room. I guess, so people can relax there on their walk home. ...

Lots of people don't know this, but Charlotte NC, like a lot of cities, had a streetcar system in the first part of the 20th century. A $400 million dollar plan to build a new one is in the works. Charlotte already started a light rail project and has completed one line of light rail that connect...

In addition to awesome ice cream joints, I visited one of the many restaurants in Stonecrest, a shopping center in the Ballantyne neighborhood in Charlotte NC. City Tavern has several locations around North Carolina. One is in Wilmington, NC, another is at Lake Wylie, and still another is in upto...

Marble Slab Creamery is one of life's guiltiest pleasures. There is one in the Stonecrest shopping center and I just went there tonight. Today was unseasonably warm. It got up to 72 today, warm enough to get outside for a run.  Like I said in an earlier post, I expected the shopping center to be ...

Right in the middle of Ballantyne in Charlotte, NC real estate there is a shopping center that has sprung up with the advent of the new outer belt highway. Stonecrest took advantage of one of the first legs of the outer belt and brings some upscale shops to South Charlotte and especially to the b...

The Charlotte Knights, Charlotte's minor league baseball team is hosting Night With the Knights for the second year in a row.  It won't be at Knight's Castle as their stadium is called. Knight's castle is located in Tega Cay, South Carolina, just over the border from Charlotte NC. It is easily ac...

The Charlotte Bobcats suffered a bad loss earlier this week when the Atlanta Hawks came to play them in Charlotte.  Apparently, according to the Charlotte Observer, the Bobcats had the lead, by seventeen points for some time. But they squandered it and lost.  It was a big game for anyone interest...

It's big news folks - Adam Morrison is now a short timer. Apparently, he is being traded to the Las Angeles Lakers for Vladimir Radmanovic. The Charlotte Observer says that Morrison was the first draft pick that Michael Jordan made as the managing partner of the franchise.  Michael Jordan has had...