A skyline that sprouts new buildings at a dizzying pace. Neighborhoods dotted with new breweries and renovated mills. Thousands of new apartments springing up beside light rail lines. The signs of Charlotte’s booming prosperity are everywhere. But that prosperity isn’t spread evenly. And from Charlotte’s “corridors of opportunity,” it can seem a long way off, more like a distant promise than the city’s reality. Historic West End Partners’ J’Tanya Adams (second from left) and Erin Gillespie (center), the city’s Strategy and Development Manager for Corridors of Opportunity, were part of a panel following an announcement by the Truist Foundation. Charlotte’s Corridors of Opportunity program is not the traditional approach to economic development — instead of luring a single big business or splashy development, the city is investing $109 million of public and private funds into six parts of the city that have historically been overlooked. When Tracy Dodson returned to the city in 2018 to oversee economic development, she said this week that the city manager teased her about having to shift her focus from the “big, sexy projects” to parts of Charlotte that don’t normally attract attention. The corridors approach differs in another way, which came up following […]
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Invest The Invisible Impact
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Invest The Invisible Impact
