![]() ![]() We're seeing development pressures on a lot of different sites, of course, the main example, you know, you have SouthPark Church in SouthPark that had been redeveloped into apartments and a hotel and restaurants. You have other churches that are seeing attendance declines. In Charlotte, you have some churches that are growing. Now, we weren't able to reach Park Church or Nikao Church to get an explanation, but just generally, we know there are a lot of things going on in the church landscape. It's not clear what the sales price was, but the property is worth $7.6 million, according to tax records. And property records indicate that it has sold it to Nikao Church. Mecia: Well, Marshall, since about 2004, The Park Church has owned this 39-acre property in Pineville. What's behind this move, Tony, and what's to become of this property? One of Charlotte's most established Black churches, The Park Church on Beatties Ford Road, sold their second campus. It's becoming a little bit tougher for some teens looking for work. And so, you know, not everybody is able to get the sorts of jobs that they want. Publix is one of the few places that says it hires 14- and 15-year-olds. We talked to a 14-year-old who had applied to work at Rita's Italian Ice and at Publix. Not everybody who wants to find a job is able to find a job. Mecia: Well, it's becoming a little bit more of a normal type of market. Terry: Well, are there enough jobs to go around then? ![]() So the better pay has really drawn a lot of these teens back into the job market and filling some of these jobs that in previous years have been empty. But that's a lot more than I made, you know, working as a busboy at a Mexican restaurant a few decades ago. ![]() I don't know how much you made, Marshall, working as a teen. The average is $14.19 an hour for 15- to 19-year-olds, according to Gusto. But what's happening now is the pay on those jobs is increasing. Some pools locally went to no lifeguards because they couldn't fill the jobs. There was a year where Carrowinds opened a little bit later because they didn't have the staffing. But the thing that is really distinctive now, you'll recall that in the last couple of years, that job market has been kind of tough. ![]()
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