Black developer gets millions for affordable housing - QCity Metro
WEBApr 25, 2023 · This would bring the city’s total investment in affordable housing to over $260 million over the past ten years. Of the nine properties approved for funding, only one is led by a Black-owned real estate development company, Laurel Street Residential. The company’s President and CEO, Dionne Nelson, told QCity Metro that the process leading ...
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WEBJan 19, 2024 · Walter Hood, a landscape architect who spent part of his childhood living in the Druid Hills neighborhood, unveiled three concepts for a public space that will honor a banking giant. by Glenn H. Burkins January 19, 2024. Looking back on his formative years in Charlotte, Walter Hood remembers downtown in the 1960s and ’70s as an “amazing ...
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WEB3 days ago · Charlotte receives federal grant to expand solar energy access for low-to-moderate income households. The city of Charlotte has been awarded a federal grant to provide solar energy installations for low-to-moderate income households, aligning with the city’s goal of becoming a low-carbon city by 2050. by Destiniee Jaram September 27, 2024.
$12.9 million raised for Uptown pocket park - QCity Metro
WEBAug 30, 2024 · Photo: QCity metro. Organizers have raised at least $12.9 million for the construction of Hugh McColl Park in uptown Charlotte. Formerly known as Polk Park, the site sits on less than an acre at Trade and Tryon and will be named after Hugh McColl Jr., the former CEO who effectively built Bank of America. At a Charlotte Center City Partners ...
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WEB3 days ago · Democrats nominate Bobby Drakeford to fill vacant seat in NC House. by Destiniee Jaram September 19, 2024. Drakeford, who grew up in west Charlotte and founded a real estate development company, would fill the seat left vacant by the death of former state Rep. Kelly Alexander Jr.
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WEBSep 23, 2024 · Immersive space experience opens at Blume Studios. by Glenn H. Burkins September 19, 2024. 1 2 3 … 568. At QCity Metro, our mission is to provide news, information and commentary from a Black perspective. To support the work we do, . Qcitymetro provides online, accurate, fair news and buzz for the African American community of Charlotte, NC.
Charlotte city unveils $91m plan for railroad tracks and transit ...
WEBAug 27, 2024 · Charlotte city council considers $91 million investment in Red Line commuter train. Charlotte city staff on Monday unveiled a $74 million plan to buy 22 miles of railroad tracks from Norfolk Southern, part of an ambitious plan to expand transit options in Mecklenburg County. Under that plan, the tracks could be used for a proposed Red Line ...
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Vance High School is officially renamed in honor of Julius L.
WEBJul 15, 2021 · Zebulon B. Vance High School has been officially renamed in honor of the late Julius L. Chambers, one of the nation’s most influential civil rights attorneys. The Wednesday ceremony was held after the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board voted 8-0 last fall to drop the school’s Confederate namesake in …