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Rock Hill's Southside is a place where African-Americans hold modest real estate wealth. But with fewer families interested in staying, long-established neighborhoods are slowly disappearing.
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The first female mayor of Rock Hill who was known as a civic booster who was instrumental in building its premier recreational complex and other infrastructure has died. Elizabeth Josephine "Betty Jo" Dunlap Rhea died Monday. She was 91. The Herald reports Rhea was mayor from 1986 to 1997. The newspaper reports she led the city through growth and development of new industries after the region's textile mills closed. Mayor John Gettys, the city's current leader, said in a statement that Rhea's vision for the city has been a benefit for all its residents and visitors.
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The county says it wants $21 million back from Tepper's 'failed vanity project'
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The real estate entity behind the doomed $800 million project filed for Chapter 11 in Delaware Wednesday.
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U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman (R, 5th) was a commercial developer before he got into politics. He offers a perspective that 'all is not lost,' even if the Carolina Panthers bail on Rock Hill.
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The Carolina Panthers spoke to the world Tuesday for the first time in more than a month about the team's planned HQ in Rock Hill.
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City officials say they've made it clear from the get-go that Rock Hill 'would not, could not, should not backstop this debt.'
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Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper has paused construction on the team's $800 million practice facility in Rock Hill, South Carolina citing concerns over a lack of funding from the city needed to complete the project's infrastructure. Tepper has invested $170 million into the project, according to a statement from a spokesman for Tepper Sports and Entertainment on Monday. In the statement, it says TSE has "been unable to contribute the agreed upon investment to fund the construction of the public infrastructure." The practice facility was set to open in 2023.
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Dr. Norma Gray served as Rock Hill's NAACP chapter president for about a year. Spurred by the acquittal of a former city officer charged with assaulting a Black man last summer, she will now pursue activism on her own.
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A jury has acquitted a fired South Carolina police officer of assaulting a Black man during a traffic stop last year. The jurors on Wednesday found former Rock Hill police investigator Jonathan Moreno not guilty of the misdemeanor assault charge. Moreno and his attorneys argued he was scapegoated by police and prosecutors over the June 2021 incident that Moreno publicly apologized for last year. Bystander video on Facebook shows officers wrestling with Travis Price and his brother and forcing them to the ground. The incident prompted several days of protests last summer.