
A new study of online rental housing advertisements in Charlotte found that corporate landlords are more likely to include potentially exclusionary language in their listings, and those listings...
One of Charlotte's quintessential suburban communities has big plans to transform itself into a dense, walkable, mixed-use center.
A far-reaching new plan could shape Charlotte’s transportation infrastructure for decades to come, reorienting a car-dependent, sprawling Southern city towards a denser, transit-oriented, bike-...
As COVID-19 fades from the front pages but normalcy still hovers out of reach, Charlotte’s two biggest employment centers want to resemble each other a bit more in the decades to come.
Update: On June 13, Charlotte City Council approved changes to eliminate the petition process for traffic-calming requests)
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