Brother owners Cal and Michael Malouf are the developers behind the James Street district, and have transformed it from a light industrial zone into a must-visit shopping and dining destination.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Nov. 2026
But probably no one in North Carolina was more caught off guard than the owners of Pump Social, Rachael and AJ Donner, who opened the restaurant in a former gas station in Concord just last August.
In return, George takes a five-figure consulting fee and 2% of the proceeds if proprietors sell their business within ten years.
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HubSpot,
HubSpot,
30 Oct. 2026
History tells us that promises by news proprietors to preserve their properties’ independence from their own partisan ideological predilections are typically honored in the breach.
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Business Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Sep. 2026
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