Pearl Street Park

Rev. Janet Garner-Mullins (left) and Jacqueline Stowe are former residents of Brooklyn, a thriving Black neighborhood that once stood on the site of Atrium Health’s new medical innovation district. They’re asking when Atrium will make good on its promise of affordable housing.

Charlotte’s new medical district is open. Where’s the affordable housing?

Michelle Crouch | The Charlotte Ledger/NC Health News

In 2021, Atrium Health promised affordable housing in a pitch to win $75 million in local tax incentives for its medical innovation campus, The Pearl. The housing hasn’t materialized.

Politics

Commissioners OK Swapping Park For Housing Authority Land

David Boraks

County commissioners Wednesday night approved an exchange of land with the Charlotte Housing Authority that will allow the expansion of Pearl Street Park…

News In Brief

State Releases Keith Scott Autopsy; 3 Arrested in Attack of Transgender Woman

Associated Press

The state Medical Examiner's Office late Monday released the autopsy of Keith Lamont Scott. It shows Scott died of gunshot wounds to the back and abdomen,…