Big developments are in the works for Charlotte neighborhoods from Uptown to South End.
Katie Peralta Soloff provides a roundup of the most important developments coming to Charlotte in 2022. Some highlights:
- A medical school campus and 'innovation district' that will include apartments, retail, and the city's first four-year medical school, which officials hope will create thousands of jobs.
- A $400-million development on the site of the old Strawn Cottages with 145 affordable housing units.
- A 30-story apartment building in the city's gentrifying South End.
- The massive development slated to replace the Midnight Diner and Uptown Cabaret, "situated in a crucial spot connecting Charlotte’s central business district (Uptown) with an area that’s rapidly becoming one of the hottest office submarkets in the nation (South End)."
Read the source article for the full list, more details, and renderings of each project.
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