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Brooklyn Village is a 17 acres (6.9 ha) development in Uptown Charlotte that broke ground in Fall 2023. [ 3 ] [ 1 ] It is paying tribute to a former black neighborhood in the Second Ward of Uptown that was demolished in the 1960s as part of an urban renewal campaign.
Due to the 2007–2009 financial crisis, the only part of the tower built was the Knight Theater, until the Museum Tower opened in 2017. [12] The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture would have four floors, cost $18.6 million and have 45,000 square feet (4,200 m 2) of gallery, classroom, and administrative space. [13]
The concept of a mill village was gone and the houses were being sold on the open market. The neighborhood became more transient and the sense of community that had held North Charlotte together for the first half of the century was replaced by apathy toward the community among newer residents, and fear and distrust among existing residents.
In 1974, Mary T. Harper, Ph.D. (1935-2020), [4] an assistant professor of English at the UNC-Charlotte, proposed an Afro-American cultural center for the city of Charlotte. [4] Working with her mentor, Bertha Maxwell-Roddey, Ph.D., director of UNC-Charlotte's Black Studies Center, Harper envisioned a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Afro-American Cultural ...
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Belk Theater Booth Playhouse McGlohon Theatre Duke Energy Theater. Blumenthal Arts is a not-for-profit, multi-venue performing arts complex located in Charlotte, North Carolina. Opening in November 1992, Blumenthal owns and operates 4 theaters on 2 campuses in Uptown Charlotte. [1]
Soon the renamed theatre was seeing less use, partly because it was too small, but Children's Theatre of Charlotte had some performances there. By 1999, the 30-year-old Community School of the Arts was the main tenant. Actor's Theatre still used [4] the 180-seat [7] Duke Power Theatre, and North Carolina Dance Theatre used part of the space.