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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
What do you get when you combine a bike path and a sidewalk? The answer is the 10-foot-wide University City Boulevard Pathway. Work will begin this summer on the multi-use path along Hwy. 49 from the main campus entrance to Mallard Creek Church Road, The first...