By Rhiannon Bowman, contributing writer
Published: January 14,2011
Ed Christenbury’s family has been farming its tract of land off Mount Holly-Huntersville Road since the 1940s. Since then, Charlotte’s city limits have inched closer and more people have divided once-large properties into neighborhoods. Today, the city’s limit is only a half a mile away from the family’s 30 acres. Though the Christenburys were there [...]
By Rhiannon Bowman, contributing writer
Published: January 11,2011
The Catawba River generates electricity, fuels the Charlotte-area economy and provides a place to play and drinking water for most of Charlotte, Mount Holly and Belmont — all with little fanfare. Even the land surrounding the river has yet to experience the expansive development that’s enveloped the rest of the Charlotte metro region, thought that’s [...]
By Rhiannon Bowman, contributing writer
Published: January 11,2011
Whether you study a map of Charlotte or take a driving tour, you’ll soon realize the city is running out of empty space in the county it nearly fills. That’s why it’s projected, once the economy improves, that development will sputter to life in a big way in the northwest part of the city. In [...]
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