The Charlotte Business Journal's Two Views monthly podcast features interviews with business and civic leaders who are taking on the region's biggest challenges.
Inside the Latino community’s drive to play a bigger role in Charlotte’s business, civic life
Gris Bailey and Manolo Betancur provide vivid examples of the ingenuity and influence of Latino and Hispanic entrepreneurs and workers in Charlotte’s economy.Bailey grew up in Southern California, where she hoped to become a lawyer. She did, in fact, go on to earn a law degree and practiced immigration law, but consulting and business development became her career focus, taking her all over the country and developing expertise in a range of fields, including companies that provide college pla...
17 Nov 2023
Economists Mark Vitner and John Norris on the Charlotte region's 2024 outlook
Businesses across the region in all industries are in the midst of setting expectations — and budgets — for 2024. Good luck to them all.Projecting what could happen in the economy next year following a 2023 that can best be described as a series of mixed messages, scrambled numbers and consistently inconsistent outcomes does not foretell certainty on the horizon.That's where this month's CBJ Two Views conversation comes in.CBJ invited two economists steeped in knowledge of the Southeast to br...
26 Oct 2023
Danny Morrison and Andrea Smith are building Charlotte’s track record for big events
On Nov. 9, when NCAA Women’s Final Four teams Iowa and Virginia Tech play in Charlotte at the Spectrum Center, it’s likely to be the highest revenue-generating regular season game in the history of the sport.Danny Morrison, executive director of the Charlotte Sports Foundation, has been touting that anticipated milestone in recent weeks, and Morrison’s track record for living up to his promises is pretty solid.Morrison took charge at the nonprofit sports foundation in 2019. He came out of a b...
14 Sept 2023
Inside the growing reach of Charlotte's Mayor’s Racial Equity Initiative
Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles and retired Trane Technologies CEO Mike Lamach have become key figures in an ambitious civic campaign to undo systemic racism. The Mayor’s Racial Equity Initiative started in the fall of 2021, inspired by the horrors of George Floyd’s death in 2020.The initiative relies on a tried-and-true local formula: combining investments and leadership from city and county government with matching efforts by major employers and nonprofits. Buy-in, so far, has been impressive. To ...
15 Aug 2023
Clay Grubb and Tim Sittema on innovative development and affordable housing
Clay Grubb, CEO of Grubb Properties, and Tim Sittema, managing partner of Crosland Southeast, are central players in Charlotte’s development evolution. Both are leading complicated urban projects in innovative ways.And each has tackled a range of affordable housing initiatives – both as developers and in their nonprofit work.Grubb, the CEO of Grubb Properties since 2002, has led the company through several evolutions, the latest taking his company into two of the nation’s most challenging mul...
15 Jul 2023
How Hugh McColl and Malcomb Coley are tackling Charlotte's equity issues with Bright Hope Capital and more.
Malcomb Coley, EY’s Central Region Private Leader and Charlotte managing partner, and retired Bank of America Corp. CEO Hugh McColl Jr. became friends a decade ago, soon after Coley relocated to Charlotte.In 2020, they became business partners, investing with former Duke Energy Corp. executive Lloyd Yates in Bright Hope Capital, a firm created to invest in — and build — minority-owned companies.McColl is white; Coley and Yates are Black.Both are heavily involved and interested in civic matter...
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