You'll be hard-pressed to find a chamber of commerce that does not support retaining this. It's a powerful tool to have at your disposal.

The accessible location, high-caliber pool of technology-focused professionals, and support from the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, County of Mecklenburg and State of North Carolina made Charlotte an ideal city in which to establish our customer care and operations headquarters. As we've experienced a year of tremendous growth, this move demonstrates the next step in a continued expansion throughout North America and to Europe and the Asian Markets. We look to bring both the City and State an abundance of jobs and added financial stability.

Perfect Commerce will provide our organization with improved supplier pricing, enhanced services and support and an easy-to-use application for greater functionality to gain the full benefit of the software and services.

They pretty much gutted the bill.

We don't have a lot in our toolbox to begin with as far as economic development tools. This one, even though it's not used, the threat of eminent domain is always a tool for economic development.

The competition that this bill would provide is healthy for the marketplace and will clearly benefit consumers.