Held in the city's Charlotte Square Gardens, the festival will feature 800 writers and 750 events.

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At 201.5 feet wide by 56.7 feet tall, its surface area of 11, 425 square feet places it behind massive screens at Charlotte Motor Speedway (16, 000 square feet) and Cowboys Stadium (11, 520 square feet).

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This metropolitan area, anchored by universities and technology-oriented industries, is among the lowest-density regions in the country, with under 1, 700 persons per square mile, slightly less than Charlotte, Nashville and Atlanta.

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Brian Kasher is the Manager of Environmental Health and Safety for the Charlotte Mecklenburg School District, with 20.1 million square feet of occupied space, 630 buildings and 1250 mobile units he serves 180, 000 daily occupants.

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