Due to the COVID pandemic, there’s been a decline in reading scores across the board for all students in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School system. To combat the decreasing literacy rates, Charles Robinson, Vice President of Hidden Valley’s neighborhood association, has...
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Holiday Lights on The Speedway
Speedway Christmas, one of the Southeast’s largest holiday traditions is back again! Now through January 16, take friends and family to see four million lights spread among the four-mile course on the Charlotte Motor Speedway. Rain or shine, the synchronized lights...
UNC Charlotte honoring the acclaimed North Carolina architect, Phil Freelon
For over two years, 22 UNC Charlotte Architecture students and faculty members, Emily Makas and Greg Snyder have been working on designing an exhibition to honor Phil Freelon. Before passing away in 2019, Freelon worked on projects at the Gantt Center, the museum of...
University City Night Market is Back!
The annual winter entertainment and shopping experience, University City Night Market, will return this holiday season. This open-air marketplace at the lake and boardwalk at Shoppes at University Place is an opportunity to support small local businesses, purchase...
Feed Your Spirit, Mind, & Body with Free Chick-fil-A
There’s something special about bringing a community together. Especially around the holiday season when there are endless amounts of love, gratitude, and joy from everyone. The Keith Family YMCA understands this. Since the late 90s the Christian Mission Committee, a...
See University City’s latest projects and plans in pictures
So much change is sweeping across University City, it can be hard to keep up. All corners of University City's 7.5-square-mile area are evolving , from the 2,000 acre University Research Park to light rail stations. Nearly 4 million square-feet of office space was...
Wanted: Artists to help capture CLT history
The Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department is planning to build a new police station on North Tryon Street for our University City Division – and the Charlotte Arts and Science Council is seeking artists to help bring the station to life. Specifically, it is seeking...