Charlotte-Based Food Tech Startup Grocery Shopii Sees Success on a National Scale

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Katie Hotze, a digital marketing professional who most recently worked for a Fortune 200 company, used to go grocery shopping with recipes she had ripped out of her favorite food magazines, turning their ingredients into leisurely weeknight meals. A few years later, with the added responsibility of cooking for her young children and the shift to getting her recipes mostly online, Hotze found the process of virtual meal planning and grocery shopping to be frustrating and tedious. So she created Grocery Shopii. The Charlotte-based tech startup she founded and launched in 2019 uses machine learning to fuel online grocery shopping,

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New Mexican Restaurant-Bar MAS Signs On As Lower Tuck’s First Hospitality Tenant

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The owners of Craft Tasting Room & Growler Shop and Lincoln Street Kitchen & Cocktails plan a new tortilleria and agave bar at Charlotte’s Lower Tuck to be known as MAS.  Lower Tuck, the West side’s newly completed adaptive reuse project, has announced its first food and beverage tenant, “Maiz, Agua, Sal” (corn, water, salt) moving in summer 2022. The concept, called MAS for short, is a new and authentic Mexican tortilleria from the team behind Craft Growler Shop and Lincoln Street Kitchen & Cocktails. MAS will serve up freshly pressed tortillas, tacos, huevos rancheros, agua frescas, hand crafted agave

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Howard Levine Foundation Donates $25 Million Toward New Charlotte Med School Academic Building

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Charlotte is one of the fastest-growing cities in the U.S. and the largest city in the country without a 4-year medical school. Atrium Health will break ground on Wake Forest University School of Medicine Charlotte next year, with the first class scheduled to be seated in 2024. Today, Atrium Health Foundation announced a $25 million gift from the Howard R. Levine Foundation to name the signature academic building, located in the heart of a new innovation district coming to Midtown. The Howard R. Levine Center for Education will house the school of medicine as well as Wake Forest University School

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Report Finds 24.8% Of Charlotte Area Households Lack Broadband Internet

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Earlier in November, President Joe Biden signed into law a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, one of the largest federal spending packages in history and a major component of Biden’s domestic agenda. The bipartisan bill includes billions of dollars in investment for infrastructure priorities like roads, bridges, and water and sewer systems. But one of the most significant items in the new bill is a $65 billion allocation to improve access and affordability for broadband internet. Broadband advocates have been arguing for expanded access to high-speed internet for years. These advocates note that internet access is critical for participating in the

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Bold New $250 Million Public-Private Partnership Launched To Advance Racial Equity

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A new $250 million communitywide public-private partnership to advance racial equity in Charlotte was announced Nov. 1 at a gathering of community members and civic leaders at Johnson C. Smith University. During the event, $80 million from the City of Charlotte and other public sources, $97 million in private philanthropy, and $19 million in low-return debt and equity were announced, for a total of $196 million toward the $250 million goal. Of the quarter-of-a-billion dollars the initiative seeks to raise, 84% will be in the form of philanthropic gifts and grants, as well as public dollars. Sixteen percent will be

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Red Cross Offers $10 Amazon Gift Card To Blood Donors in November – Dire Shortage

With Thanksgiving and the holidays approaching, the American Red Cross urges donors to continue to make and keep appointments now and in the weeks ahead to help overcome the ongoing emergency blood and platelet shortage that has significantly impacted the nation’s blood supply. In fact, the current blood supply is the lowest the Red Cross has seen this time of year in more than a decade. Those who come to donate Nov. 1-23 will receive a $10 Amazon.com Gift Card* by email, thanks to Amazon.** Since declaring an emergency need for donors last month, thousands of people have come to Red Cross blood drives across the

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$30 Million Gift Establishes David L. Conlan Center at New Atrium Health Carolinas Rehabilitation

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The late David Conlan was a longtime friend, colleague and trusted adviser of Charlotte developer and philanthropist Howard C. “Smoky” Bissell, as well as a partner of the Bissell Family until his death in August. Now the Bissells are honoring Conlan with a gift of $30 million that includes support for the new Atrium Health Carolinas Rehabilitation, slated to open in November 2022. Conlan was a patient at Atrium Health and benefited from rehabilitative medicine. The David L. Conlan Center will anchor Carolinas Rehabilitation’s new flagship facility that will replace the current building constructed in the 1970s. Upon completion, this

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City Solid Waste Services Giving Out Free Paper Bags For Yard Waste Saturday Oct. 23

The City of Charlotte Solid Waste Services will host a yard waste bag exchange event on Saturday, Oct. 23, for residents who receive city collection. Residents will be able to exchange their plastic yard waste bags for kraft paper bags. The location of Saturday’s event is 1200 Otts Street, Charlotte, NC 28205, and the time is 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. Residents do not have to bring plastic bags in order to receive free paper bags. Residents who come to the exchange event on Saturday without plastic bags will be given 50 paper bags. The event and paper bags are

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Charlotte Water Lifts Low Water Pressure Advisory Immediately

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Effective immediately (11 a.m., Oct. 20) Charlotte Water is lifting the precautionary 48-hour low water pressure advisory issued on Monday, October 18. Charlotte Water customers can continue to use water as normal. Immediately following the containment of the break, Charlotte Water staff flowed and tested samples from 260 fire hydrants and 104 other locations. The advisory notice has been lifted after water samples collected and tested have met all required water quality standards and bacterial testing was negative. “The health and safety of our customers is always our top priority,” said Angela Charles, Charlotte Water Director. “This was a significant

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Optimist Hall Welcomes Enat Ethiopian as Newest Food Hall Tenant

Enat Ethiopian will be Optimist Hall’s newest food hall tenant. Slated to open in late winter, Enat Ethiopian will be the 26th tenant to open within Optimist Hall and marks the final new addition to the food stall lineup. Established in Charlotte in June of 2017, Enat Ethiopian specializes in making traditional East African dishes with a modern flair. An homage to Owner Tina Tedla’s mother, who inspired every recipe on the menu, the word ‘Enat’ in Ethiopia translates to ‘mother.’ Enat Ethiopian’s mission is to not only introduce the Charlotte food scene to Ethiopian cuisine, but to share the

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