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Institute connects with center city

Posted on February 8, 2012
Categories: General News Tags: Charlotte Center City, Downtown Revitalization, ECONOMY, Education, UNC Charlotte

The UNC Charlotte Urban Institute now has office space in the university’s Center City Building. Although the institute will continue to be headquartered on the main campus, several staff members and institute Director Jeff Michael are now regularly spending some time each week in the uptown facility. The Center City Building offers the institute new […]

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Carolina Thread Trail takes steps toward reality

Posted on January 11, 2012
Categories: Maps Tags: ENVIRONMENT, LAND PRESERVATION, Open Space, Recreation, Sustainability, TRANSPORTATION, UNC Charlotte

Imagine being able to hop on your bicycle in Huntersville and pedal on greenways and trails to your job in the UNC Charlotte area. How about a Saturday morning hike from downtown Lincolnton to the Catawba County line, with the kids? A regional system of trails and greenways is beginning to emerge that promises to […]

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Research Triangle West: Bringing knowledge production to the western Piedmont

Posted on October 7, 2010
Categories: Cabarrus, Charlotte, County, Greensboro, Guilford, Kannapolis, Maps, Mecklenburg, Winston-Salem Tags: DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMY, NC A&T, NC Research Campus, Research Triangle Park, Transit, UNC Charlotte, UNC Greensboro, Wake Forest

In the early 1950s the not yet established Research Triangle Park (RTP) was pitched to Governor Luther Hodges as a cluster of “two medical schools, two engineering schools and a core of preeminent researchers in every field of science.” Hodges response: he called the presenter (a dean at NC State College) a “huckster.”[i] North Carolinians […]

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