With summer just weeks away, suburbanites across the region are prepping lawns. Homeowners will rake, aerate and fertilize, while lusting over neighbors’ yards that are just a little greener. But what if these lawns – soaking up...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Corbin Peters
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UNC Charlotte Urban Institute
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BACKGROUND
MOST RECENT POSTINGS
Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 13:15
Two of the region’s main streets have won this year’s Great Places in North Carolina competition. Union Street in Concord and Main Street in Davidson were recognized among the state’s top downtowns in the competition sponsored...
Friday, March 1, 2013 - 17:23
UNC Charlotte Parking and Transportation Services representatives have been investigating the possibility of bringing a bike-share program to the 26,000-student campus northeast of uptown Charlotte.
PATS Director Gary Caton has met twice...
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 - 12:23
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,...
Monday, December 17, 2012 - 14:41
Weekday mornings, the residential streets of the College Downs neighborhood quickly clog with parked cars. Commuting students, faculty and staff from adjacent UNC Charlotte, compete for spots on neighborhood streets closest to the school’s...
Thursday, November 1, 2012 - 15:42
Just west of the Yadkin-Pee Dee River, a start-up farm and food council is emerging with a vision to fill small farmers’ wallets with money and the Charlotte region’s plates with local food.
The collection of farmers, elected...
Monday, September 17, 2012 - 11:34
Using nature as a model, a team of UNC Charlotte students and faculty has designed an energy-efficient house that includes a network of small pipes in the walls and ceiling, a type of concrete made from coal-burning waste and a complex dashboard...
Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 12:09
Over a decade ago, developers sought to build a downtown in a town that did not have one. Harrisburg, N.C., which is four miles east of Charlotte, was a collection of subdivisions and highway retail without a traditional center...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 09:14
Driving east on busy N.C. 49 through Harrisburg, the scene is repetitive.
Farmland, suburbs and strip shopping centers blur at 50 miles per hour until a two-story, 27,000-square-foot, neoclassical building peeks over an Advance Auto Parts...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 11:38
Eleven Charlotte neighborhoods have won grants of as much as $10,000 from the City of Charlotte’s for projects aimed at cutting energy use.
The city’s Charlotte’s Power2 Live Green Special Initiative Neighborhood...
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