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Optometrists
Add Sports
Vision Care
Business Center
Opens on Elm Lane
Forum Business Center is now open at 11220 Elm
Lane near StoneCrest. The facility offers a professionally
staffed business center with furnished private, shared and
temporary offce-space options, virtual business services
and meeting facilities — all at fxed monthly rates. Details:
704-900-1390 or www.forumbusinesscenter.com.
Village at
Robinson Farm
Welcomes Eatery
The restaurant and bar,
Bradshaw Social House,
recently opened in the Village at Robinson Farm. Its interior
features reclaimed furnishings, 20 TVs and roll-up doors that
create an al fresco atmosphere. Signature items include grassfed chipotle bison burgers with white cheddar, fried chicken
pot pie and a Bar-B-Cuban Panini. Patio seating, take-out and
a children's menu are available. Info: 704-543-7351.
Art Studio Offers
Classes in Matthews
The Tipsy Paintbrush, an eclectic BYOB art studio,
provides classes for friends, birthday parties,
corporate events and other social occasions.
It is now open in Matthews. Info: 980-229-5500 or
www.thetipsypaintbrush.com.
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Blink Eyecare and Eyewear
in Cedar Walk will move
this fall to a new building
across from its current
location. Optometrists Tracey
MacIntyre and Charlene
Henderson, who founded
Blink, constructed the new
facility in concert with Bird
Pediatric Dentistry so both
practices could accommodate
patient demand.
At the new location,
Blink will offer "Sports
Vision Carolina," a new
program to help athletes
improve their performance
through visual skills. Info:
www.blinkcharlotte.com.
Local Tutoring
Center Expands
The Academic Advantage
Center will open in expanded
space this fall in the Hixon
Building at Ballantyne
Corporate Park. The tutoring
center, which has been
operating in the area for fve
years, has added a school
to help parents teach homeschooled children higherlevel courses. The center
also helps place students
in internships with local
businesses to get a sense of
a possible career direction
before entering college.
Info: 704-542-2042 or www.
academicadvantagecenter.com.
Panera Opens
Drive-Through
In Arboretum
A Panera Bread BakeryCafe recently opened
in the Arboretum. The
new site is the second
Panera drive-through in
Charlotte and will also offer
catering. Panera Bread
is known for its handcrafted, freshly baked artisan breads,
antibiotic-free chicken, select organic and all-natural
ingredients and a menu with zero grams of added trans fat.
Cash donations made by customers at the Arboretum
location are matched by Panera Bread and distributed
to Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina. Panera
donated over $50 million worth of unsold bread
and baked goods in 2010 to help people in need.
Details: 704-341-8162 or www.panerabread.com.
FALL 2013