(Before and After Photos) For years, the Villas Mobile Home Park, a seven-acre plot of land owned by the estate of the late Howard V. Wyrick and under the current oversight of a bankruptcy trustee, lay virtually abandoned and increasingly polluted with dilapidated mobiles homes, trash, and abandoned furniture. Now the City of Kannapolis is exploring acquiring the land off Fairview Street in order to utilize it for possible green space or other private development purposes. The City has...

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The City of Kannapolis is once again planning the annual Jiggy with the Piggy Festival to be held May 6 and May 7. The festival will take place in Downtown Kannapolis and on the NC Research Campus and the City is seeking vendors to participate in the event. The festival includes 80 barbeque competition teams seeking Kansas City Barbeque Society sanctioned honors, over a hundred arts & craft vendors, concerts, 5k Walk/Run, Car Display, the 600 Festival Movie on the Campus, an All You Can...

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Fifteen people have been honored for completing all seven 5K events as part of the Run Kannapolis Series. In its first year over 1,000 people walked or ran in at least one of the seven 5K events held in the City. The Run Kannapolis series is part of the City’s Discover a Healthy Life brand.  Completing all seven events in 2015: David Baucom Keith Eagle Sarah Edwards Jay Evans Brandon Farabee Tucker Farabee Christine Hall Hayden Hamlin Earl Lentz Lisa Lentz Zach Martin She...

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January 23 - 12 noon Crews continue to plow and treat all major streets, such as Kannapolis Parkway, Main Street, Cannon Boulevard, Dale Earnhardt Loop, etc. in the City. No residential streets will be plowed as the 127 miles of major streets are the priority of the crews as they are the major arteries of our transportation system. Conditions on these streets are improving slightly but Mother Nature is not helping much with the melting of the compacted layers of snow, sleet and freezing r...

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 Gordon Food Service today celebrated the grand opening of its 300,000-square-foot distribution center in Kannapolis - near Kannapolis Parkway. Attending the event were North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, Kannapolis Mayor Darrell Hinnant, Gordon Food Service CEO Jim Gordon, Gordon Food Service Carolinas Division General Manager Mike Sprenger, and Gordon Food Service President of U.S.Distribution Scott Nicholson. State and local officials joined Gordon Food Service employees for a clo...

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All City of Kannapolis offices will be closed on Thursday, December 24, and Friday, December 25 in observance of the Christmas holiday. There will be no garbage, loose leaf and recycling collection service on Christmas Day. We will operate on a one day delay. Friday’s routes will be collected on Saturday. The Winterland Express runs every evening in Village Park until Dec. 30 (closed Dec. 24-25). The train takes adults and children through the park’s wonderland of lights from 6-9...

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Hundreds of people attended a ceremony Monday to dedicate the new Kannapolis City Hall and Police Headquarters. The building is located at 401 Laureate Way. The ceremony featured a formal flag raising ceremony with a Police and Fire Honor Guard. The United States, North Carolina and City flags were raised while Drew Barkley played God Bless America on the bagpipes and Officer Cory Kluttz played the National Anthem on his trumpet.  Remarks were made by Mayor Darrell Hinnant, City Manager M...

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 Kannapolis City Council heard preliminary findings from the site analysis phase of the downtown master planning process on Monday evening. The site analysis, conducted by the Development Finance Initiative (DFI), studied the downtown property owned by the City of Kannapolis to determine the scale of potential development and appropriate mix of uses for revitalizing the downtown district. DFI also presented preliminary plans for an early-stage demonstration project in downtown Kannapolis. ...

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The Kannapolis City Council has approved funds to construct a new Fire Station 2 and to do renovations to Fire Station 3. Members of City Council recently heard a presentation from Fire Chief Ernie Hiers on the facility needs of the Fire Department. The City has five stations: Station 1on Firehouse Drive, Station 2 on Richard Avenue, Station 3 on Florida Avenue, Station 4 on Stewart Street, and Station 5 on Barr Road.  Fire Station 2 was built in 1963. With only 1,838 square feet, it was ...

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The City of Kannapolis, today announced that it has been awarded Outstanding Achievement in Website Development by the Interactive Media Awards™. The City’s website, www.kannapolisnc.gov, was redesigned and developed to be more customer service friendly earlier this year. The honor recognizes that the project met and surpassed the basic standards of excellence that comprise the web’s most professional work. The site was honored specifically for excellence in Government. Of th...

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