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Contest: Show us the places you love
Photo contest
What places in our region have a hold on your heart? Is there a building or a patch of woods so special to you that you’d lie down in front of a bulldozer to save it? We want to know about it.
To celebrate our first anniversary, PlanCharlotte.org is sponsoring a photo contest to let our readers show us what places in this area they consider
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Is the Charlotte region ready for another boom?
Times have been tough in the local economy, but it looks as if we’ve finally turned the corner. If growth is starting to make a comeback, exactly where will it be? Is your county ready?
In the 2000s growth in the Charlotte region was surging, with the Charlotte MSA* the sixth fastest in population growth in the country during that
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Beer: Is it zoned out?
A group of local brewers and beer lovers is working with the city's planning department to make Charlotte a more beer-friendly city in an unusual way: zoning amendments. The group held its second meeting at NoDa Brewing Co. last week, continuing a process craft brewers hope will adjust the city’s zoning ordinance, which currently
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Home values in region: Clusters of highs, lows
How much are homes in your neighborhood worth? The era of upside-down mortgages and foreclosures has left homeowners across the country anxious about home values – their own and their neighbors'. In the midst of this housing market upheaval, explosive growth in the Charlotte region has reshaped residential patterns.
Clusters of higher-
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The decline (and rise?) of Carolina manufacturing
After decades of decline, manufacturing jobs across the country have seen a modest uptick. This long period of industry restructuring has left a strikingly different geography of manufacturing in the Carolinas; we still make furniture and textiles, but that’s no longer the whole story. New industries have taken root. Many offer higher wages
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A region by many other names
Recent headlines have trumpeted the U.S. Census finding that between 2000 and 2010, the Charlotte “urbanized area” was the nation’s fastest growing among areas with 1 million or more people, at 64.6 percent.
But the statistic also highlighted the inconsistent, even chaotic, differences in how the so-called Charlotte region gets
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Boosters: Downtrodden downtowns can thrive
Persistence and Main Street programs can provide needed boost
Around the Charlotte region, many downtowns share similar histories: A long-ago heyday followed by decay as dollars and foot traffic flowed to suburban malls and interstate eateries.
A growing list of those places, however, are fighting back, seeking to revive their economies and preserve their histories by joining North Carolina’s Main
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CATAWBA COUNTY
Learn more about Catawba County and its relationship to the Charlotte region at the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute’s Catawba County page.
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