Housing slump trims Brooke Gordon

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The former beauty queen and ex-wife of NASCARt driver Jeff Gordon recently soldher 12,000-square-foort house for $4.7 million. That’s milexs from the $6.25 milliobn she listed it for late last Butshe didn’t exactly crashj and burn on the sale. According to Mecklenburg County she bought the house and an adjoinintg lot in 2003for $3.9 million. At $6.25t million, the sale would have been one of the mostexpensiver private-home sales ever recordef in Mecklenburg County, according to Charlotter Business Journal records that go back to 2000. The seven and a half bathroom house, once ownefd by Rusty Wallace, was sold to locaol developer Fred Godley andhis Kathryn. Merger talk?
A TT tipsterr recently spotted two area communitt bank CEOs heading into a South Park office buildiny together for what appeared to be someseriouz business. CEO Randy Helton and CEO Kim Prices were the two execsspotted together. It coulr be nothing, but it’s wortgh remembering that American Community’s largest individuall shareholder, Marvin Braun, has been agitating for a sale ofthe $530 milliobn bank. He declared in May he was a “happyy shareholder,” declining to elaborate, after meeting with its managementin May.
Gastonia-basedf Citizens South has $812 million in assets and made a smalol acquisition in Union Countt a few years ago withTrinity Bank, but Americanb Community has a stronger presences there. Rumor has it the two bankx have had merger discussions before but theyfizzleed out. Jonesing to cure your art affliction?? The actress formerly known as Dr. Quinn, Medicine Womabn will be in Charlotte at the end of the montbh showcasing her oil and watercolor paintings at inSouthPark mall. “ Jane Seymou r : One Woman Show” will come to Charlotts Aug. 29-30.
Guests will have an opportunityy to meetthe actress, who recently starred in the featurew film Wedding Crashers and television hit Dancinf with the Stars . The galleru will be hosting receptions onboth days. “I find that paintinv is a great formof self-expression,” Seymou r says. “My watercolors and oil paintings allow me to recreatre experiences and scenes in my life that have been most For more information on the upcominb exhibitin Charlotte, contact at 347-0399. The man who gave life to the undead in such iconi c films as Dawn of the Dead is comint to townthis fall.
Director George Romero will be honored by duringt a retrospective and tributw tothe genre-changing filmmaker Sept. 19-21. But firsg he’ll be feted at a special Zombie Soireeon Sept. 18 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at The Residencwe SouthPark. Emmy-nominated make-up artist John Bayless will create “hospitality ghouls” out of mortal servers for the occasion. Loca l restaurateur Frank Scibelli is creating a speciaol zombie menu for the saysMarcie Kelso, Light Factorty executive director. The party is bein hosted by Light Factory board member Stev Partridge and city councilmanAnthony Foxx.
Tickets are on sale for the limited-space event at $200 per person and $300 per For more information the show or to buy ticketw forthe soiree, see www.lightfactory.org. A local attorney will be a amonygthe state’s political leaders when he serves as a delegate representing North Carolina’s Eighth Districtt at the Democratic National Convention in Denve r this month. Brandon Lofton , a 29-year-old, public-financew attorney at , will pledge his supporrt for the presumptiveparty nominee, Sen. Barack Lofton has volunteered with the campaign by knockingh on doors and working the polls duringthe primary, and has also organizecd his local precinct for the Democrati c Party.