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This is a list of major companies and organizations in the Charlotte metropolitan area, through corporate or subsidiary headquarters or through significant operational and employment presence in and around the American city of Charlotte, North Carolina. The Charlotte metropolitan area is home to seven Fortune 500 companies, numbers in italics ...
Uptown Charlotte is the largest business district in Charlotte and the Carolinas. [2] Several Fortune 500 companies have their headquarters in the district, including Bank of America, Duke Energy, Honeywell, and the east coast operations of Wells Fargo. [3] [4] Uptown contains over 33 million square feet of office space. [1]
Charlotte (/ ˈ ʃ ɑːr l ə t / ⓘ SHAR-lət) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the county seat of Mecklenburg County.The population was 874,579 at the 2020 census, [10] making Charlotte the 15th-most populous city in the United States, the seventh-most populous city in the South, and the second-most populous city in the Southeast behind Jacksonville, Florida.
WSOC-TV presently broadcasts 37 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours each weekday and five hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in addition, the station produces an additional 17 hours of newscasts each week for sister station WAXN-TV (in the form of a two-hour extension of WSOC's weekday morning newscast and an hour-long 10 p.m. newscast).
From late November to early January The Green used to feature a small ice rink—the only outdoor rink in Charlotte; [9] but in November 2011, after seven years on The Green, the rink was moved to the NASCAR Hall of Fame plaza. [10] The Green is owned by Wells Fargo and was designed by Wagner Murray Architects of Charlotte and was completed in ...
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Project L.I.F.T.: Initiative focused on West Charlotte High School and its feeder schools, which set a goal to increase the West Charlotte graduation rate over five years. Read Charlotte: A collaborative, community-wide movement to double the percentage of third-grade students reading at grade level from 40% (as of 2020) to 80% in 2025. [10]
The nearby North Carolina Zoological Park is located in Asheboro in Randolph County, North Carolina in the Uwharrie Mountains and Uwharrie National Forest. At over 500 acres (200 ha), it is the largest walk-through zoo in the world. Crowders Mountain State Park in Gastonia provides hiking and rock climbing opportunities.