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One year ago we hosted our first South End Community Day, a Saturday morning dedicated to landscaping and art projects to spruce up the neighborhood. In partnership with the Charlotte Community ToolBank and the South End Neighborhood Association (SENA), we have planted several new flower beds and spruced up an old dumpster over the last … Continue reading »

This Friday looks like we will finally have great weather…not that the weather has stopped folks from coming out to Food Truck Friday! We have two great events happening on Friday night in two separate location. The first is the usual Food Truck Friday, which last Friday had to have been a record number of … Continue reading »

I really love all the local food offerings that South End provides from Healthy Home Market and Atherton Market to restaurants like Luna’s Living Kitchen, The Liberty, Common Market and others. This Sunday, Triple C Brewery is hosting a Funds to Farms dinner and all the details are below. Looks like a great event and … Continue reading »

The South End Neighborhood Association is bringing back the popular Outdoor Movie Night that they started last summer. The plan for now is to have 3 Outdoor Movies that would be on the 2nd Friday of May, June and July. We are changing up the location this year and will be hosting under the trees … Continue reading »

It’s that time of year when there are tons of events happening every weekend and South End has no shortage. Below is a quick list of a few special events and features happening over the next few weeks to include several today. If you have an upcoming event in South End, please let me know … Continue reading »

Love getting photos from our Facebook and Twitter friends. Here is another great way from Nicholas Rend @nrend. Feel free to like it on our Facebook page.

Next Tuesday, April 23rd we are hosting a community meeting to share the vision for the Rail Trail and would love for you to come join us. The meeting will start at 5:30pm at Byrons in the Design Center of the Carolinas. We will have a formal presentation and then we’ll have a short tour … Continue reading »

One of the six main goals of the South End Strategic Plan (Good to Great) that we worked on as a community a year and a half ago, was improving neighborhood connectivity. A tremendous selling point of South End is it’s walkability and it’s proximity to other neighborhoods, (Uptown, Dilworth, Wilmore, Brookhill and Sedgefield). There … Continue reading »

At the last South End meeting I gave an update on new streetscape furniture we will be installing throughout South End and wanted to make certain to share this for those not able to attend the meeting. Some of you may be thinking, “Furniture…for the street? Does that mean Lazyboys down Camden Rd?”. Okay, slight … Continue reading »

George Hobica, syndicated travel journalist and founder of Airfarewatchdog.com published a story yesterday titled, 10 Reasons To Visit Charlotte This Spring, and South End got some terrific mentions. Under reason number 2 “Food Wonderful Food” he calls out Price’s Chicken Coop, Mac’s Speed Shop and Luna’s Living Kitchen and noted the convenience of using the … Continue reading »

Nice blog post written by Lindsey Grossman for Mapquest Discover titled, “Best 48 Hours: Charlotte, Queen City of The South”. It begins with some great options for visiting South End and wanted to share a portion and link you back to the site for the full post. Best 48 Hours: Charlotte, Queen City of The South … Continue reading »