The City of Kannapolis will sell the remaining parcel of property located in the Kannapolis Gateway Business Park near N.C. 73 to Elevation Acquisition and Development, LLC. The 7.25 acres will be sold for $1.5 million, its appraised value. The Kannapolis Gateway Business Park was developed by the City in 2002 to attract business, commercial and industrial companies. The City has succeeded in its goal for the park as it is now home to Stewart-Haas Racing, Haas Formula One and the Novant Healt...

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Tonight, the Kannapolis City Council approved an incentive grant for an Amazon Distribution Center which will be located off N.C. 73 and Kannapolis Parkway. “We are very excited to welcome one of the nation’s largest companies to Kannapolis. Their role as a world leader in commerce continues to evolve and we look forward to being a part of their innovation in the distribution of good and services,” commented Kannapolis Mayor Darrell Hinnant. “The City is pleased to pro...

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First Lady Kristin Cooper joined state and local officials, as well as members of the community, today to christen the #1984 “City of Kannapolis” locomotive for use in North Carolina’s daily Piedmont passenger service. The event was held at the N.C. Department of Transportation Locomotive and Railcar Maintenance Facility in Raleigh. “We are pleased to christen one of our newly rebuilt locomotives in honor of the City of Kannapolis and its long association with rail ser...

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Kannapolis City Manager Mike Legg presented the proposed Fiscal Year 2018 budget to the Kannapolis City Council Monday evening. The proposed FY 2018 budget is $68,125,000 which includes all seven operating funds of the City. The budget includes no property tax increase. If approved, the current tax rate will remain at .63 cents per $100 valuation - a home valued at $150,000 will pay $945 annually in property taxes for all city services. The City’s budget is composed of two primary r...

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Monday night, the Kannapolis City Council and Lansing Melbourne Group (LMG) formally agreed on the terms for the purchase of land and the specific components of the Demonstration Project. The Demonstration Project will be a mixed use development of multi-story residential, retail and parking between Main Street and West Avenue. This project is intended to generate momentum for new investment in downtown Kannapolis. The City Council approved a Master Development Agreement which includes de...

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Winter Update – 3 p.m. - January 8 We thank you for being careful and heeding the advice to stay off roadways. Kannapolis Police report less than a dozen accidents occurred yesterday. Kannapolis Public Works crews continue to work 24/7 to get major roadways ready for traffic. Mother Nature has to help us. We need temperatures to stay above 20 degrees in order for the salt we’ve put down to activate and melt the snow/ice. Crews are concentrating on major city streets and w...

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A major component of the Kannapolis Downtown Revitalization Plan is the infrastructure and streetscape improvements planned for West Avenue and the surrounding streets. Over the past year staff has been working with DFI and Land Design to examine options for the best design for a streetscape that is unique, has green space, outdoor dining and social hubs, maintains traffic flow and parking options, encourages pedestrian activity, provides interaction between businesses downtown and preserves th...

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The Kannapolis City Council approved three items which are the first steps in the process for the construction of a new sports and entertainment venue in downtown Kannapolis.  Architects Populous and Creech and Associates, Inc. were approved as the designers of the Sports and Entertainment Venue. The City Council also approved establishing a capital project ordinance which is the financial mechanism to pay for the items needed for the preliminary design of the venue. City Council also appr...

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 The Kannapolis City Council has unanimously approved a rezoning request from the TPA Group from Atlanta. The three parcels, totaling 117 acres, is located on NC 73 at Macedonia Church Road. It was previously zoned Campus Development and Rural Estate/Agricultural which allowed office and light industrial use such as the Gateway Business Park where Stewart-Haas Racing is located. With the rezoning, the site is completely Campus Development – Conditional Zoning, thus allowing distributi...

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The City of Kannapolis and the North Carolina Rail Division have teamed up to place secured bike racks at the train station in Downtown Kannapolis. The public is welcome to use the racks to store their bicycles while they are traveling on the Amtrak train. The project is not only practical but artistic as the bike racks were designed to look like the North Carolinian train which stops at the Kannapolis station. “We love how the bike racks turned out. Hilbish Ford helped us paint them prof...

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