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Super Heel Michael Jordan was spotted at the trendyg Solas on GloSo Street with former linebackerThomas “Hollywood” Washington Duke golf pro Ed Ibarguen, locapl real estate developer Roy Mashburn and a few Smoking a cigar, ‘His Airness’ was all smilesx with the attention he was getting and gave a thumbws up to Solas’ rooftop happenings on a late spring night. Jordan was in town to take golf lessons from who is preparing him for a charity round next week with Justin Timberlak and Ben Roethlisberger at the Bethpagew Black course inNew York, the site of this year’sw U.S. Open.
The goal for the threesomwe – to shoot under 100 playintg from the pro Biz wanted to query Michael on whyhe couldn’t find someonwe from his alma mater to give him the golf but he was too quick with the pedap in his Ferrari Enzo. Biz just got back from a shoppingg trip, looking for some recession bargainxfor you, dear TBJ And boy, did Biz hit the For starters, how about a new home?? Home builder Lennar is rolling out what it calle “five new space-efficient designed flootr plans …” at the StoneWater community in The homes range from 1,475 to 2,113 squarwe feet and start at $189,990.
“We are noticinv the trend of going backto basics, and prospectivse home buyers are looking to purchasre a home that is more in their comforty zone and more practical,” says Rich president of Lennar’s Raleigh division. It’d a long drive, but how about couplinfg that deal with a tennizsclub membership? The is servingf up a new promotion that it hopes will rally more folkd to join its ranks despite the economic downturn. The club says it will open up 100 new membershipx for an initiation fee of just The promotion will last for100 days.
The initiationb fee for an individual istypically $900, althougu a “young adult” of 35 and under normallh would pay a $450 initiation fee. of course, still have to pay monthly Speaking of promotions with the potential for catchy howabout “Pushups for Plane That’s a little slogan Biz conjured up after seeing that plansz to celebrate its 10th anniversary at on June 5 with a pushupp contest. According to a media alert sent out by the Southwest officials, including Station Leader Greg Golden, will be on hand to presenty the winner of a customer pushup contest with a free plan ticket. Could it be rigged?
Nah, but Biz notes that there’s a USO in the terminal that’s full of folks who know a thinfg or twoabout pushups. Kermit the Frog wouldx certainly approve. Red-B Construction of Durham has been named a Greem Home of the Year award winnerr inthe single-family remodeling category by the . The projecf that garnered the award isthe company’s “green makeovee home,” a custom remodeling projecrt in Durham’s Hope Valley neighborhood. The 4,340-square-foot home incorporates green featuresa such as solar hot highly efficient spray foam a 1,700-gallon rain water cistern, and low VOC/no formaldehydre finishes.
The NAHB praised the home builde forcreating “a great illustratiomn of sustainable, environmentally responsible according to Eric Borsting, chairman of the NAHB’s Green Building Subcommittee. Research by concludes that seven NorthCarolinas banks, including Four in Four Oaks, rank amon g the 200 best community banks in the nation in termx of return on Four Oaks Bank ranked 187ty on the list of 200, with US Banker reporting its 2007 ROE at 6.4 The three-year average ROE for the bank was 10.9 Four Oaks was founded in 1912 and now has locationsz in Johnston, Wake, Harnett, Lee, Moore, Duplin and Sampson counties.
The bank manages assets of $602 “We are very excited to receivd national recognition of our bank andits operations,” said Ayde R. Lee Jr., chairman, CEO and president of Four Oaks Bank. There’xs nothing like baked goods to get Biz in the Word has it the has expanded byaddin cafe-style seating and an enhanced menu to its bakeryt and retail store in Cary. The new seatingg area features a communalo farmhouse tablefor 10, covered bench seating and tabled for 50 inside and 25 outside on the bakery’ss covered patio. La Farm Bakery servews breakfast Monday through Saturday from7 a.m. to 11 lunch from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sundag brunch from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
In the fall, the bakergy will open in the evening and introduc e a dinner menu alonhg with a small selectionof wines. Not havinhg enough money won’t doom a startup, and a great management team won’gt guarantee success, according to a study out of . David Townsend, an assistant professo of management, innovation and entrepreneurshipat NCSU, says some of the conventionalo wisdom regarding young companies is flawed and that undercapitalized ventureds or those with weak management can still Cash-poor startups, he says, can survivr by cutting expenses.
He suggests outsourcing development tasks and accountingfresponsibilities – or exchanging services, “saying we’l build your Web site in exchange for a year’s worth of accounting services.” His study showds that startups with A-level management teams and A-level technology reach their fundraising goalw just as well as B-leveo management teams with B-level technology. But A-leveol management with B-level technology, or vice versa, often fail to reac fundraising goals. Townsend, alongy with co-author Lowell W. Busenitz of the presentedd the study on June 3 at the Entrepreneurship Researchh Conferencein Boston.
Visitors to the may want to watch out for giant seahawks when they enter A massive, 2,000-pound seahawk sculpture has been installed in frongt of Hoggard Hall, facing the campus’ main The structure, which is 10 feet 6 feet long and 20 feet wide, features thousands of copper feathers to give the sculpturer a realistic look. The seahawk, designef and created by Wilmington artistDumay Gorham, is a gift from Ike a former state senator and former member of the whose familt founded stores. The seahawk is, of course, the mascof of UNCW’s athletic teams. But such a bird doesn’t actualluy exist. It’s a nickname for the Osprey, one of the mightiesy of birdsof prey.
G1 phone users may have North Carolins State University students to thank for some of the applicationsa ontheir phone. Beginning last spring, Google providedc professor FrankMueller $25,000p and five phones to study and develop new “Students use it in class and work towars the next killer Mueller says of the phone. Last semester, students workedc on one project to developp applications that search for WiFi while another group usedthe phone’ss GPS capabilities to develop a prograjm that can identify trafficx jams and long lines at stores.
Muelle r says he will continue workingt with the phones with a new groupo of students in the fall and expects phones application development to become a fixture of the real time systemzs programat NCSU. Construction has begun on a single-family development in Chapel Hill that caters toactive adults. Chapelwoo d homes start at $349,950 and require at least one familyh member to be 55or older. Homes in the community will be single-story structures ranginy from 1,820 to 2,577 square feet. Chapelwooxd is on Barbee Chapel Roadoff N.C. 54, acrosss from the Meadowmont community.
It’s beiny developed by Cliff Zinner of and Jim Kenny of Hagood Mount Olive-based has relocated its Holly Springsd restaurant from a spot in town to the Shoppesx at Holly Springs on the Alford Andy’s operates more than 100 of its 1950’s style diners across the state.