Uptown Magazine: Charlotte Center City and Downtown

December 2007
Elmwood Park – What Lies Underneath? PDF Print E-mail
Written by David Moore   
Uptown Magazine: Elmwood Park December 2007
SAUL SHINES THE FLASHLIGHT on the heap of rubble blocking his way back to St. Peter's.

Maybe this wasn't such a good idea after all.

He turns to examine the tunnel ahead, focusing the narrow beam of light towards the section where it appears the cavern branches off in two different directions.
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Conversation - Sharing a Glass of Wine with James Funderburk PDF Print E-mail
Written by Celina Mincey   
Uptown Magazine: Conversation - Sharing a Glass of Wine with James Funderburk
Where should we begin discussing the innovativeness of James Funderburk: his having owned a cut-and-sew factory on U.S. soil, his trendy clothing stores, Charlotte’s newest night club and restaurant, or his involvement in “green” real estate development? We might track his entrepreneurial spirit to Tehran, where he was a fourteen-year-old during the 1979 revolution, or to Malta where he attended the equivalent of his junior year of high school at a prep school modeled on those in England.
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Living - Fit for a King PDF Print E-mail
Written by Morgan Fogarty   

Sorry to say, but places like this penthouse condo at 230 S. Tryon aren’t created with a few weekend trips to Crate and Barrel. You better believe it takes a village to design a condo as fabulous as this. Fred Gregory of Charlotte-based LS3P Associates Ltd. led the way as the interior architect and designer. Gaye Mitchum of Gaye Mitchum Design Group was also there every step of the way, helping make sure the place really reflected the owner's taste and style.
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Food - Raising the Bar PDF Print E-mail
Written by Catherine Rabb   

Uptown Magazine: Uptown: Food Raising the bar on cocktails downtown
Rumor has it that there is work underway on a martini where gin, olive juice and vermouth are consolidated into an orb that looks like a big green olive. Order this martini and you are served what looks like an empty glass with an olive in it. Pop the “olive” into your mouth and it liquefies back into a martini.

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