Last SlideNext Slide The Asheville Food Park and More is nearing completion off Amboy Road, building a space for a food truck rodeo, cocktail lounge, coffee shop and storage space.(Photo: Katie Bailey/bkbailey@citizen-times.com) The French Broad River corridor is booming. The…

Burial Beer of Asheville donates brew to nonprofits when it can, but with limited production, it’s tough to meet all requests. Pictured are brewer Tim Gormley, left, with owners Jess and Doug Reiser.(Photo: Staff) This is prime tourism season. But…

SAVANNAH, GA – Visitors to Savannah or Chatham county spent more than $2.5 billion here in 2014. Nearly a third of that was spent on hotel lodgings alone. The new $5 hotel motel tax is expected to ring in between…

Cecil Bothwell Asheville’s City Council may come down hard on short-term rentals with increased policing and fines as high as $500 per day. I believe that’s a serious mistake. Presently it is illegal to rent independent residential units in most…

Buy Photo From left, Stephanie Hellert, Marcel Christie, Jonah Hellert, and Matt Christie stand in front of some finished and unfinished pieces of Matt’s woodworking.(Photo: Pat Barcas/Citizen-Times)Buy Photo ASHEVILLE – Area home prices are rising, and competition for houses at…

Bicyclists converged on several West Asheville and downtown coffee shops on Saturday, June 11, for the Bikes and Coffee Crawl, organized by Vortex Doughnuts.  The event allowed riders to choose their own routes as they trekked from location to location…

Michelle Wisda is a 44-year-old wife and mother. For 14 years, she and her husband raised their son in Chapel Hill, N.C., where Michelle worked in the public school system as a behavioral modification specialist, and her husband ran his…

A large rainbow flag hangs from the fourth floor of the Asheville City Building in October. The decision to fly the flag irritated those on the center and left amid concerns that City Council has become too liberal.(Photo: Katie Bailey/bkbailey@citizen-times.com)…

Buy Photo Asheville actor Matt Burke auditions for a roll in the studio at Screen Artists Co-Op on Riverside Drive. He was cast in “Jurassic World,” which hits theaters Thursday evening.(Photo: Jessy Boswell/Special to Citizen-Times)Buy Photo Matt Burke does not…

I completely agree with Brad Dawson when he calls the Aloft Hotel “a mistake” and “better suited to Myrtle Beach” [“Is Asheville Becoming Boomtown, N.C.?” May 27, Xpress]. It seems that developers are clawing for a chance to get a…