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Healthy UCity Race Series wants YOU!

Healthy UCity Race Series wants YOU!

The Healthy UCity Race Series has opened with a Rush – hundreds of participants at the Gold Rush 5K at UNC Charlotte. You can join the fun, and get fit, by signing up soon for our next two events – the Green on the Green 5K at Corvian School and the Race 2 Educate 5K...

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Aon Hewitt helping our kids “Cook With Heart”

Aon Hewitt helping our kids “Cook With Heart”

By Abigail Armstrong Aon Hewitt Financial Advisors, with offices at Innovation Park, provides investment advisory services, financial planning, benefits counseling and financial education to employees and retirees. Aon Hewitt's employees also are helping improve the...

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Introducing our UNC Charlotte interns

Introducing our UNC Charlotte interns

University City Partners is proud to introduce our "Class of 2016" - our fall semester interns from UNC Charlotte. Seniors Hollis Maye-Keye and Cagney Reeves will help us with communications and planning - key functions for our success. We encourage you to consider...

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Our retail story continues to be written

By Mary Hopper Executive Director On any given week, the University City Partners office fields more calls about retail than anything else. While that has been true during all of our 10-year existence, those inquiries have accelerated with Belgate’s opening. Perhaps...

Making sure that University City is Center Stage

If you ever heard the adage, “Out of sight is out of mind,” you will appreciate University City Partners’ need to stay connected. UCP staff members devote a lot of time and energy to attending meetings, doing presentations and telling the University City story while...

A healthier future grows here

A new garden at CMC-University will soon yield berries, peppers, squash AND healthier humans, hopes garden founder Elaine Jones. A dietitian who counsels hospital patients, Jones sees the garden as a wellness classroom where adults and kids can learn about the...

Take that, crooks!

Campus crime dropped 30 percent between 2010 and 2011, says a new report from UNC Charlotte’s police. University City police also had a great year, with crime down 13.9 percent – the second best record of CMPD’s 13 divisions. One drop in particular indicates...