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A large Habitat for Humanity community build started by former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalyn returns to Charlotte after a long absence. The project will build 27 affordable homes in the West Boulevard corridor.
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Charlotte receives a $1.1 million grant to preserve trees in the city’s Corridors of Opportunity.
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A mentorship program in Charlotte is working to empower and teach life skills to Black youth through agriculture while addressing community issues in one of Charlotte’s low-income Corridors of Opportunity.
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What does it take for a neighborhood to get noticed by big funders and city officials deciding where to target spending? Determination, a good Rolodex, and access to the right people and programs. And, as one neighborhood in west Charlotte shows, it takes the right advocates coming together.
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The city of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County will host new Corridors Connect events in October.
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The Charlotte City Council approved on Monday $1.5 million to develop a grocery store to address the lack of healthy food in one of the city’s low-income Corridors of Opportunity.
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The city of Charlotte plans to open physical hubs in all six of the city’s designated Corridors of Opportunity to connect small businesses and entrepreneurs with resources. These hubs would bring those partnerships directly into historically overlooked and underinvested communities and be run by groups located there.
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One of Charlotte’s oldest cemeteries sits in North End, among industrial buildings and neighborhoods that have grown up around it over the past century. Now, the Hebrew Cemetery wants to expand into a city-owned plot next door, which Charlotte has set aside to redevelop as part of its Corridors of Opportunity initiative. The cemetery’s plan is to provide more space to the living and the dead — but some community members are wary.
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A program that deploys people called “violence interrupters” on Charlotte’s west side showed some promise in its early results. UNC Charlotte’s Urban Institute looked at the first year it was up and running.
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The city of Charlotte just bought the Economy Inn for $4.2 million. The main attraction: it was a hotspot for crime in an area that sees a lot of violence. The plan is to demolish the motel, add affordable housing and begin to change an environment where crime thrives.