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After a successful run last summer, The Center City Green Market will bring back free walking tours beginning this Saturday, July 10th.  The walking tour will leave from “The Square” at Trade and Tryon at 10:30am Saturday morning and last approximately 1.5 hours.  The tour starts on the North side of Trade Street (aka Bank [...]

I surprised my son for Christmas and scored 2 tickets on eBay to the Carolina Panthers-New York Giants game over the holidays.  It would be his first trip to a visiting team’s venue.  What a better place for his first visit than the confines of the Meadowlands, for the last game at Giants stadium, complete [...]

Are you trying to figure out what to do for your Halloween weekend?  How about a horse-drawn carriage ride through ‘historic and haunted’ Fourth Ward Uptown?  Southern Breezes Carriages will be offering tours this Friday and Saturday nights from 6-11pm leaving from the Square at Trade and Tryon.  Hear creepy tales about haunted Victorians, public [...]

On Tuesday, September 15th, the Business Leaders of Charlotte – BLOC and First United Methodist Church Uptown  had Jerry Reese, a self proclaimed “villain”, tell his side of the Uptown baseball story as part of their Tuesday Topics monthly speaking series.   The meeting was well attended with a number of people with pent-up anxiety about [...]

Construction is halted at The Vue and the Panthers announce 2 senior executive resignations

I had the opportunity to get an up close and personal tour of Bank of America stadium over the weekend.  Before describing my experience, I want to give a quick shout out to John Schwaller and the Third Ward neighborhood association for arranging the tours, and to Jeff Wells and Riley Fields of the Panthers [...]

My son (Cole) and I took in the Panthers Fan Fest activities this past Saturday at Bank of America Stadium. At the beginning of Fan Fest, the Panthers played a 20 minute video recapping last year’s season. It is amazing what kids retain. It has been close to a year since the beginning of the [...]

watch this video on YouTube Do you ever wonder where Kurt Cobain, Brandon Flowers, The Edge, or Eddie Van Halen got their start? Like many other aspiring musicians, they probably endured tireless lessons and hours upon hours of practice as young kids. Eventually they got pretty good, found a couple of buddies (or brothers) who [...]

the Center City Green Market in action, watch this video on YouTube So I’m the guy that has been leading the Uptown Walking Tours each Saturday from the Green Market Uptown at Trade and Tryon.  It all started back in early May when Center City Partners sponsored the Uptown Living Showcase.  Myself and several other [...]