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The area is managed and overseen by the University City Partners, one of the six Municipal Service Districts in Charlotte. University City is home to the University Research Park (located on the other side of I-85), one of the largest research parks in the state, and the PNC Music Pavilion. IKEA opened a store in University City on February 18 ...
York Road, and recently referred to as Lower South End (LoSo) by redevelopers and businesses wanting to emulate the Charlotte neighborhoods of NoDa and South End, is a mixed-use development neighborhood of commercial, industrial, and residential in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Ovens Auditorium is an auditorium located adjacent to Bojangles' Coliseum, in Charlotte, North Carolina.Opened in 1955, Ovens has a seating capacity of 2,455 and has hosted over 7,500 events (as of April 2009).
Prior to 1976, public transportation in Charlotte was entirely privatized. Trolleys operated in the city from 1891 until 1938. [6] Privately operated bus routes also ran in Charlotte until 1976.
Mint Museum Randolph resides in a federal style building that once housed the Charlotte Mint.Opening in 1936, it was the first art museum in North Carolina, USA. [2] The permanent collections include American Art, Ancient American Art, American and European ceramics, American and European Decorative Art, North Carolina Pottery, historic costume and fashionable dress and accessories, African ...
Cherry has one subdivision, Midtown, which includes the Metropolitan and Midtown Crossing strip malls as well as Little Sugar Creek Greenway and Midtown Park. The area was once the site of Charlottetown Mall, the first fully-enclosed shopping center in the Southeast, and fourth major interior mall in the United States; it operated from 1959 to 2003, razed in 2005.
The green field is used to convey ideals the city focuses on. As a city communications representative put it: [5] "Green provides an association with the City’s environmental assets, reputation for prosperity, and good quality of life, including the City’s tree canopy, visitors’ ratings for cleanliness, national reputation as a banking/financial center (and) commitment to job creation."
By the early-1950-60's the farms were giving way to rooftops as Charlotte's residential growth expanded. Today there are over 60,000 rooftops in the Derita area. Corporations like IBM and the (First Union) Wachovia Center moved into the Derita area. CMS launched an education experiment here called Governor's Village by clustering schools from ...