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		<title>Controversial Independence Boulevard plan wins City Council approval</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 19:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Ramsey, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Destination still unknown for Independence Boulevard area&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 15:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Boykin, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to lengthy and convoluted planning processes, the Independence Boulevard project is one of Charlotte&#8217;s most notorious examples. And it doesn&#8217;t look like things are going to improve any time soon. Multiple public agencies are involved in the planning for Independence Boulevard&#8217;s future, and plans for the corridor are constantly in flux, often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More than a train stop&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caitlin Coakley, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Wal-Mart Independence Boulevard’s salvation?&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Boykin, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lack of funds leaves streetcar idling&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2010/11/30/lack-of-funds-leaves-streetcar-idling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caitlin Coakley, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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