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President Trump announced Thursday he will be pulling the plug on yet another advisory council – this one, on infrastructure. The council, which was still being formed, ideally would have advised the president on his highly-hyped $1 trillion infrastructure plan geared towards upgrading the country’s crumbling roads and bridges. The move comes one day after Trump announced he shut down two other job councils, amid a wave of resignations by executives in the wake of the president’s response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va. “Rather than putting pressure of the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both. Thank you all!" he tweeted. News of the infrastructure advisory council falling apart came from a White House official Thursday afternoon . “The President has announced the end of the Manufacturing Council and the Strategy & Policy Forum. In addition, the President's Advisory Council on Infrastructure, which wa...

Multifamily developer has former Charlotte Heights Church of Christ near Kroger under contract Stonehenge Real Estate Group has 5.28 acres including where this church building sits at 5807 Charlotte Pike under contract. (Photo: Davidson County Assessor of Property) Story Highlights Stonehenge plans to pursue specific plan zoning for 5.28 acres near White Bridge Road just west of Kroger store. The multifamily developer is completing the West 46th apartments at 46th and Charlotte. A finalized deal for 5807 Charlotte Pike would mark the second time Stonehenge has ended up buying a former location of Charlotte Heights Church of Christ. Multifamily developer Stonehenge Real Estate Group has the former home of Charlotte Heights Church of Christ under contract with plans for up to 250 apartment units. The church recently moved out of the 5.28-acre property at 5807 Charlotte Pike to its new home at Templeton Drive and Old Charlotte Pike across from the Nashville West shopping center...

INDUSTRY GE delays opening of new building in Fort Point General Electric Co. has pushed back the expected opening of its new building overlooking Fort Point Channel by two years after deciding to break the headquarters project into two phases. GE vice president Ann Klee said in a memo Tuesday to Boston employees that executives expect the 12- story building , dubbed South Point , to open in mid-2021, compared with an earlier goal of 2019. Two older brick buildings , together dubbed North Point , will be renovated first, with the aim of opening them in the first half of 2019. GE has already started work on the two old buildings, originally part of a Necco candy manufacturing complex . But construction on the new building was supposed to happen concurrently with much of the Necco renovations. Now, GE will finish the Necco buildings and move employees into them before starting construction of the new building. GE expects it will take 24 months to complete the new structure. The ann...