The Charlotte City Council on Monday approved rezoning petitions for a large mixed-use project in the Cherry neighborhood and a townhome development on the south side of Fairview Road. The council voted 11-1 to approve a petition that Midtown Area ...

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CHARLOTTE – Affordable housing in the Cherry neighborhood got a boost this week after the City Council approved rezoning petitions for the area. The council also approved a commercial project, deferred a decision on an office building and multifamily development ...

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CHARLOTTE – The City Council on Wednesday heard the public’s opinion on a proposal to build 30 affordable-housing apartments in the Cherry neighborhood and the planned redevelopment of an aging shopping center in south Charlotte. The council also deferred several ...

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The Charlotte City Council on Monday agreed to sell 2.2 acres in the Cherry neighborhood to a developer who will build 30 affordable apartments. District 7 Councilman Ed Driggs voted against the sale. The city bought the land, along Baxter ...

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Saussy Burbank expects to break ground this month on three of the 43 homes it plans to build on 6.6 acres in the Cherry neighborhood. The company is in the process of acquiring the land from Virgate 1 LLC, which ...

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CHARLOTTE – Cherry was founded in the late 1800s as Charlotte’s first workforce housing, a neighborhood for skilled and unskilled black laborers. That’s the history, and history is key to the present and future of the city’s second-oldest traditionally black ...

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