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BusinessWeek magazine has named Downtown Durham as an "Up-and-Coming Neighborhood" that offers great buying opportunities. "Watch where the artists are living now," says Prashant Gopal of BusinessWeek, "and that will help you know where the next hot real estate markets will be." Read more from th...

Amid tough times, Raleigh economy experiencing growth If the hustle and bustle on Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh means anything, it looks like this Main Street USA is doing OK.An analysis by Moody's Economy.com puts Raleigh in the handful of metropolitan areas - 14 percent - that are exp...

North Carolina's economy should expand by 1.7 percent this year, according to UNC Charlotte economist John Connaughton's latest quarterly forecast. He now says the state's economy should add 23,920 net jobs during 2008, an increase of 0.6 percent over the employment level in December 2007. In 200...