Charlotte: City officials tout South End as model for rail-oriented development

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City officials tout South End as model for rail-oriented development
By Eric Frazier

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Posted: Tuesday, May. 14, 2013


With construction booming in Charlotte’s South End, city leaders on Tuesday called the area a model for the kind of smart growth that transit projects can spur in struggling neighborhoods east, west and north of uptown.

At a news conference on a street corner near the Lynx light-rail line, officials from Center City Partners joined several City Council members for a bus tour of the area’s new projects, which include 11 residential developments announced or under way. Officials project the South End’s population will roughly double as it adds a projected 3,500 residents by the end of 2015.

Officials with Center City Partners said they’ll soon install 20 benches, 13 bike racks and 34 solar-powered, Internet-connected waste and recycling containers to further enhance the area’s livability.

Center City Partners President Michael Smith said the coming of the Lynx Blue Line six years ago sparked the transformation of the formerly industrial area. ..................(more)

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/05/14/4041411/city-officials-tout-south-end.html#storylink=cpy

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1. Yes if we had our priorities straight

al cities would have decent light rail.