Road improvements already in the works in Ballantyne
31.12.69
BALLANTYNE – Drivers in south Charlotte will see traffic, as they know it, start to change soon, maybe as early as the start of 2012.
Sitting in their strategy room Thursday afternoon, Oct. 6, and surrounded by maps of building projects and intersections, the main development minds of Bissell Companies talked excitedly about their plans to reshape the flow of traffic in Ballantyne and future of Ballantyne Corporate Park.
Earlier this year, Bissell Companies leaders came to Charlotte planners saying, “This is what Bissell thinks needs to be done (with roads in Ballantyne). What does the city think?” Ned Curran, president and CEO of Bissell Companies, said late last week. The company proposed $11 million in road improvements attached to a proposal to increase the office space allowed in the corporate park. The city and county approved both plans.
Now, Bissell Companies is ready to begin improvements to Johnston Road, Ballantyne Commons Parkway and other highways as soon as possible. So ready, they started spending money engineering those projects before getting the final nod from city and county leaders on the financing plan.
Source: South Charlotte Weekly
Johnson & Johnson, Mark Hurd, Insider Trading in Court News
31.12.69
Updates with Microsoft in Verdicts and Settlements; MassMutual, John Hancock and Transocean in New Suits.)
Oct. 13 (Bloomberg)-- Just as his trial was set to start its second day, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab yesterday pleaded guilty to all eight charges in the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day 2009.
U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds in Detroit immediately swore in the Nigerian-born Abdulmutallab, telling the so-called underwear bomber he had the right to remain silent. He waived the right and admitted the charges against him.
The surprise announcement by Abdulmutallab and attorney Anthony Chambers, so-called standby counsel appointed to assist him, came as the day’s first witness was about to be called. Abdulmutallab planned to represent himself.
In a statement to the court, Abdulmutallab said he tried to bomb the plane as an act of retaliation against the U.S. for the “killing of my brothers and sisters in Muslim lands.”
Source: BusinessWeek