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$10 million addition in the war on cancer
CMC-University patients soon will have easier access to powerful tools for fighting cancer. Work started in July on a one-story addition along Tryon Street for University Radiation Therapy Center, now located at a nearby office park. The $10 million project includes...
Lease is more – Two big signings lift URP
Chalk up two more big leasing announcements for the University Research Park. The leases are coming so quickly we can hardly post them before others roll in. The latest – Red Ventures and Allstate – reinforce two points about University City businesses we have made...
Let’s celebrate start of Blue Line construction
Our long awaited light-rail line got a 25-gold-shovel groundbreaking last week. Hundreds gathered on the future line’s gravel bed near Ninth Street to hear Gov. Pat McCrory, Mayor Patsy Kinsey and others praise the 19-year bipartisan regional effort to build the line,...
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...
Yes, Virginia, light rail IS coming to North Tryon
For a number of folks, the fact that the Blue Line Extension (BLE) will be open in spring of 2017 will not come as news. However, a surprising number of folks got confused by the streetcar debate or by having heard promises of light rail for so long that they have...
Our growing street grid offers great escapes!
I rode from Kohl’s to IKEA the other day without using Tryon Street or I-85. Travel through our “downtown” on back streets? I’ll bet YOU have never done it. But you will. With all the Tryon-Harris traffic congestion – and more coming when light-rail construction...
Our popular greenways keep growing!
Anyone who’s walked the Toby, Mallard and Clark’s Creek greenways knows how popular our 9-plus miles of creekside trails have become. Good news, all you walkers, joggers, cyclists and non-car commuters: We’re getting more, including a trail linking University Place...