This past Saturday the South End Neighborhood Association hosted another successful Community Day. We hosted our first Community Day a year ago with the desire to have a series of work projects as a way to spruce up the neighborhood. Projects focused on adding or improving flower beds or public art projects and having another … Continue reading
For a while now you may have noticed the large question mark on the back of the Design Center Water Tower. That question mark will be replaced shortly with the new artwork above from Jeff Thomas who was selected the winner in the 2013 Highest Design Competition. This year’s theme was “What Rythm Do You … 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.
Last night (Tuesday, April 23) we held our first Community Meeting to share the Rail Trail Vision. We had a tremendous turnout with over 80 people, which included lots of residents from South End, Dilworth, Wilmore and Sedgefield along with City Councilwoman, LaWana Mayfield, many representatives from City staff as well as Charlotte Center City … 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