Four builders, three nonprofits, two veterans and a widow
A handful of homebuilding and development companies and a trio of nonprofits are pitching in to build and rehab homes in two Charlotte area suburbs for a soldier wounded in […]
Self-Help helps others, not itself: Durham-based national nonprofit works quietly to revitalize Grier Heights
CHARLOTTE – It takes a lot of self-help – lower-case – to revitalize a neighborhood like Grier Heights with affordable housing, and so far Self-Help – capitalized – has been […]
Elizabeth Heights program receives Wells Fargo grant
GRIER HEIGHTS – Wells Fargo & Co. on Monday gave $100,000 to a Charlotte nonprofit to help revitalize this historically black neighborhood near where East 7th Street becomes Monroe Road. […]
Nonprofits lift Elizabeth Heights
GRIER HEIGHTS – Elizabeth Heights, the affordable new neighborhood within this historically black neighborhood that is trying to free itself of a bad rep, is off to a ripsaw-roaring start […]
Revitalization project debuts in Grier Heights
CHARLOTTE — The first eight homes will open this week — three of which are already under contract — in Elizabeth Heights a planned, 36-house, urban-revitalization project in the distressed, historically […]
First 8 homes in Elizabeth Heights moving toward completion
Exterior construction is nearing completion and interior work is under way on the first eight homes of a planned 36-house urban revitalization project in Grier Heights, a distressed, historically black neighborhood in Charlotte.
JCB Urban, nonprofits partner to help neighborhood
The Elizabeth Heights homes — which will largely be three-bedroom, 2 1/2-bath houses in the 1,500-square-foot range, according to building permits — will sell for about $110,000 to $130,000, said Don Gately, executive director of Crossroads Corp. for Affordable Housing.
Close, but no subdivision
The only house built in the Abersham subdivision in Davidson sits about a mile down Greenwold Drive, a road with no signs of normal everyday wear and tear like potholes […]
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