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Charlotte loves visions. Here are some of the biggest on the drawing board.
If planners, developers and other leaders in Charlotte have a favorite word, it might just be “vision.”
In a city defined by its growth, local leaders aren’t shy about throwing the word around,. and there are plenty of visions being promoted in Charlotte at any one time. Visions, of course, don’t always become reality - and if they do, they often take far longer than the original planners imagined, and mutate from their original form. But visions can also set the stage for development patterns that persist for generations.
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Photo gallery: Putting the urban in suburban
Across Charlotte, developers are planning to add dense, mixed-use developments to parking lots at malls, shopping centers and office parks. See some of their plans, along with what's there now.
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