Some of the 133 modest, single-story houses in Charlotte’s Windy Ridge neighborhood are being swallowed by tangles of vegetation, vacant and abandoned. But others occupy tidy, manicured landscapes.
Residents, UNC Charlotte...
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Thursday, August 30, 2012 - 11:48
Can Windy Ridge finally find stability?
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Friday, August 17, 2012 - 06:53
Some ‘zombie’ subdivisions rising from dead
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Grand stone gates give way to woodlands. Fire hydrants stand amid overgrown fields. Roads and sidewalks, some with weeds poking through the pavement, wind past expanses of empty lots. Wildflowers bloom inside brick foundations within sight of...
Thursday, August 16, 2012 - 17:51
City pushes Carolina Theatre rivals to work together on plans
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Charlotte city officials are pushing two groups with competing visions for the future of the Carolina Theatre to work together to help save the history-rich venue that’s been vacant, on a prominent uptown corner, for more than 30 years....
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 16:37
Eastland Mall: To buy or not to buy?
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In response to the news that the City of Charlotte is considering buying Eastland Mall in an effort to make the site...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 14:32
Dilworth wary of proposed Walgreens
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Residents are objecting to a developer’s plan to build a Walgreens drug store in Charlotte’s Dilworth neighborhood, saying the project – and others that could follow – would mar the historic area’s character.
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Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 14:08
Charlotte joins global bike phenomenon
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By officially launching a bike-sharing system Thursday, Charlotte stepped to the forefront of a phenomenon rapidly taking root in cities around the world.
Charlotte B-cycle, the first bike-sharing system in North Carolina, will provide...
Friday, June 22, 2012 - 14:03
Green lanes? Whatever for?
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Published To: plancharlotte.org --
Charlotte is joining the growing ranks of cities seeking to make streets safer by turning some bicycle lanes green.
City officials hope adding green markings to existing bike lanes at certain heavily traveled intersections will more...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - 14:44
Planners offer ideas for uptown freeway loop
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As Charlotte mulls how to retool its uptown freeway loop, city transportation planners have put 22 ideas on the table.
The planners, who held a public workshop last week and provided the list to PlanCharlotte.org on Tuesday, are...
Monday, June 11, 2012 - 09:33
How urban should Park-Woodlawn area become?
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More than a half century after Park Road Shopping Center sprouted at what was then Charlotte’s southern edge, the Park Road-Woodlawn Road area has held up remarkably well.
Residents say they love living in the quiet, tree-lined...
Friday, June 1, 2012 - 09:28
Will Cabarrus sustain local food focus?
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Two years ago, Cabarrus County boldly remade its economic development strategy, doing less to woo big businesses from elsewhere and more to nurture small businesses and local food producers from within.
The shift ignited a sometimes...
