By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: May 24,2011
The controversial Independence Boulevard area plan passed unanimously during a Charlotte City Council meeting Monday. Among other things, transit has been a source of debate over the plan. The transit plan created by the Metropolitan Transit Commission includes bus rapid transit for the boulevard. But there has been a push for light-rail transit in the area. [...]
By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: May 10,2011
When it comes to lengthy and convoluted planning processes, the Independence Boulevard project is one of Charlotte’s most notorious examples. And it doesn’t look like things are going to improve any time soon. Multiple public agencies are involved in the planning for Independence Boulevard’s future, and plans for the corridor are constantly in flux, often [...]
By Caitlin Coakley, staff writer
Published: December 14,2010
The decision by the Metropolitan Transit Commission and the Charlotte Area Transit System to scale back the planned Lynx Blue Line Extension has Noel Smith concerned. President of North End Development Partners, an economic development advocacy group for the North Tryon corridor, Smith is invested in the revitalization efforts for the North Tryon Street corridor [...]
By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: December 10,2010
Surrounded by vacant and decrepit-looking shopping centers, hotels, restaurants and car lots, Independence Park is one of the last places still showing signs of life along a blighted stretch of highway just minutes from uptown. But Alec Polites said the shopping center is barely limping along. Polites, president of Polites Realty Co., and his father, [...]
By Caitlin Coakley, staff writer
Published: November 30,2010
When the city of Charlotte won a $25 million federal Urban Circulator Grant to build a starter streetcar line through uptown, from Time Warner Cable Arena to Presbyterian Hospital, supporters touted the 1 1/2-mile section as an important step toward a proposed 10-mile track. The plan was to expand the starter line from Eastland Mall [...]
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