Marshall Park

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Marshall Park — institution, appearing in the Charlotte record across 29 documented year(s).

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1891
Latta Park opened in 1891 as an amusement and recreation ground built by the 4Cs at the streetcar line's terminus in Dilworth, featuring a lake, pavilion, greenhouse, and picnic grounds designed to draw streetcar riders — and prospective lot buyers — out to the new suburb.
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Latta Park Charlotte Street Railway Charlotte Electric Railway Electric Park Edward Dilworth Latta
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1891
The Highland Park subdivision, platted in 1891 on the former Shannonhouse farm east of downtown, was the first of five subdivisions that merged into Charlotte's Elizabeth neighborhood, making Elizabeth the city's second streetcar suburb after Dilworth.
Charlotte Street Railway Charlotte Electric Railway
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1891 · 1891-05-20
To draw crowds to Dilworth's opening day on May 20, 1891, Edward Dilworth Latta arranged a championship semipro baseball game at the newly built Latta Park between teams from Winston, North Carolina, and Columbia, South Carolina — the park's first game, played at its grand opening.
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Latta Park Edward Dilworth Latta
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1891 · 1891-06-19
On June 19, 1891 the Charlotte Democrat newspaper announced that the newly organized Highland Park Manufacturing Company, led by president W.E. Holt and secretary-treasurer C.W. Johnson, would build a gingham mill in Charlotte — the city's fifth cotton mill.
Alpha Mill Mecklenburg Cotton Mill Ada Mill Orient Mill Victor Cotton Mill Charlotte Observer Highland Park Manufacturing Company Miners' & Farmers' Journal
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1892
Highland Park Mill No. 1 opened in early 1892 on North Brevard Street just outside Charlotte, equipped with 465 looms producing gingham cloth; D.A. Tompkins was among its investors.
Alpha Mill Mecklenburg Cotton Mill Ada Mill Orient Mill Victor Cotton Mill Highland Park Manufacturing Company D.A. Tompkins Ephraim Brevard
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1893
A $100,000 power-generating plant Highland Park built on Sugar Creek made Highland Park Mills No. 1 and No. 3 North Carolina's first electrically driven textile mills, a technological milestone in the state's cotton-mill industry.
Unverified — sourced but not confirmed against a primary record.
Alpha Mill Mecklenburg Cotton Mill Ada Mill Orient Mill Victor Cotton Mill Sugaw Creek Presbyterian Church
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1897
Construction began in early 1897 on Elizabeth College, a Lutheran women's college built on land donated by the Highland Park Company and renamed for benefactor Elizabeth Watts of Baltimore, giving both the Elizabeth neighborhood and Elizabeth Avenue their name.
Elizabeth College Elizabeth Watts
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1903
Construction of Highland Park Manufacturing Company Mill No. 3 began in 1903, with the original mill building completed in 1903-1904, designed by textile engineer Stuart W. Cramer.
Alpha Mill Mecklenburg Cotton Mill Ada Mill Orient Mill Victor Cotton Mill Highland Park Manufacturing Company Stuart W. Cramer
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1903
Construction of houses in the Highland Park section of Elizabeth accelerated rapidly after the 1903 extension of the East Trade Street streetcar line along Elizabeth Avenue to Elizabeth College and out present-day Hawthorne Lane.
Charlotte Street Railway Charlotte Electric Railway Elizabeth College
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1903
North Charlotte's mill village was founded in 1903 when textile magnates William Holt (of Alamance County) and Jesse Spencer and Charles W. Johnston (of Charlotte) joined to build the Highland Park Manufacturing Company and the surrounding mill village.
Alpha Mill Mecklenburg Cotton Mill Ada Mill Orient Mill Victor Cotton Mill Highland Park Manufacturing Company Charles Worth Johnston Jesse Spencer William Holt
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1904
At its opening, Highland Park Mill No. 3 had a capacity of 20,000 spindles and 500 looms, employed about 800 workers, and produced gingham cloth as its principal product.
Alpha Mill Mecklenburg Cotton Mill Ada Mill Orient Mill Victor Cotton Mill Highland Park Manufacturing Company
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1904
Highland Park Mill No. 3 was the first textile mill in North Carolina specifically designed and constructed to operate on electric power rather than steam power.
Alpha Mill Mecklenburg Cotton Mill Ada Mill Orient Mill Victor Cotton Mill Highland Park Manufacturing Company
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1904
Independence Park, Charlotte's first public park, was established in 1904 on former city-reservoir land within the Elizabeth Heights subdivision, with its interior originally laid out by landscape architect John Nolen while he was still a Harvard graduate student.
Independence Park John Nolen
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1904 · 1904-11-01
Highland Park Manufacturing Company Mill No. 3 opened in November 1904 as the largest and most imposing cotton mill yet erected in Charlotte, located on the Southern Railroad line just north of the city.
Alpha Mill Mecklenburg Cotton Mill Ada Mill Orient Mill Victor Cotton Mill Highland Park Manufacturing Company Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad North Carolina Railroad
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1904 · 1904-11-01
Mecklenburg Cotton Mill opened in November 1904 just north of Highland Park Mill No. 3 and drew its power from Highland Park's power house.
Unverified — sourced but not confirmed against a primary record.
Alpha Mill Mecklenburg Cotton Mill Ada Mill Orient Mill Victor Cotton Mill Highland Park Manufacturing Company
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1905
According to the North Charlotte Historic District's National Register documentation, Mecklenburg Mill opened in 1905, one year after Highland Park Mill No. 3.
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Alpha Mill Mecklenburg Cotton Mill Ada Mill Orient Mill Victor Cotton Mill Highland Park Manufacturing Company
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1907
By 1907 the Highland Park Manufacturing Company had grown into the nation's third-largest gingham producer, expanding to include additional plants and running roughly 30,000 spindles and 1,000 looms with more than 800 employees across its operations.
Unverified — sourced but not confirmed against a primary record.
Highland Park Manufacturing Company
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1908
Electric Park, an amusement park, opened in 1908 on North Charlotte's 36th Street on the site of the former Mecklenburg County Poor House.
Electric Park
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1911
Developer George Stephens announced plans for Myers Park in 1911, and Boston landscape architect John Nolen produced the neighborhood's original master plan that year, featuring curving streets that followed natural topography and a 110-foot-wide boulevard (Queens Road) as its spine.
W.R. Myers John Nolen King George George Stephens
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1912
In early 1912 a crew of about fifty laborers and twenty-four horse teams began grading the first four miles of Queens Road and adjoining streets, marking the start of physical construction in Myers Park.
W.R. Myers
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1913
Johnston Manufacturing Company was established in 1913 by Charles Worth (C.W.) Johnston, producing cotton yarn from a plant located in North Charlotte between Highland Park Mill No. 3 and Mecklenburg Mill.
Alpha Mill Mecklenburg Cotton Mill Ada Mill Orient Mill Victor Cotton Mill Highland Park Manufacturing Company Johnston Manufacturing Company Charles Worth Johnston
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1915
George Stephens, Myers Park's developer, built his own wood-shingled house at 821 Harvard Place in 1915, the same year several Southern Power Company executives also built homes in the new suburb.
Southern Power Company W.R. Myers King George George Stephens
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1917
In 1917 landscape architect Earle Sumner Draper, who had been John Nolen's on-site field supervisor since 1915, took over design of Myers Park, softening Nolen's street curves and adding a second entrance at East Boulevard.
W.R. Myers John Nolen Earle Sumner Draper
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1919
In 1919 tobacco and power magnate James B. Duke bought the 1915 Taylor House on Hermitage Road overlooking Edgehill Park and had architect C. C. Hook triple it in size into the 52-room Duke Mansion, Myers Park's architectural centerpiece.
W.R. Myers James B. Duke C. C. Hook
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1920
Chatham Estates, a section of what is now Plaza-Midwood served by the Central Avenue streetcar line that ran up The Plaza and along Mecklenburg Avenue to the Mecklenburg (later Charlotte) Country Club, filled in with houses through the 1910s and early 1920s, contemporaneous with the development of Myers Park elsewhere in Charlotte.
Unverified — sourced but not confirmed against a primary record.
Charlotte Street Railway Charlotte Electric Railway Mecklenburg Country Club W.R. Myers
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1922
George Stephens resigned from active management of the Stephens Company in 1922 and moved to Asheville, after which new management showed less interest in Nolen's and Draper's planning principles and Draper's involvement in Myers Park ended.
W.R. Myers John Nolen King George George Stephens Earle Sumner Draper
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1926 · 1926-11-23
The Camp Greene Memorial was erected and dedicated on November 23, 1926, by the Mecklenburg Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and stands at the corner of Wilkinson Boulevard and Monument Street in the Ashley Park/Wilmore area of Charlotte.
Camp Greene
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1928
By 1928 the City of Charlotte had annexed virtually all of Myers Park, and that year the neighborhood received its own C. C. Hook-designed public elementary school on Radcliffe Avenue.
Harding High School Second Ward High School Central High School W.R. Myers C. C. Hook
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1932
The Independence Park baseball grandstand in Charlotte was built between 1932 and 1935 using federal relief labor, started under the Civil Works Administration (CWA) and completed under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA).
Unverified — sourced but not confirmed against a primary record.
Independence Park
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1934 · 1934-01-03
Charlotte Mayor Arthur E. Wearn secured $70,000 in federal FERA and CWA relief funding to begin building a stadium in Independence Park, the project that became American Legion Memorial Stadium.
Unverified — sourced but not confirmed against a primary record.
Independence Park
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1934 · 1934-06-13
The new Charlotte stadium under construction in Independence Park was officially named American Legion Memorial Stadium, honoring Mecklenburg County soldiers who died in World War I, in recognition of Hornet's Nest Post No. 9 of the American Legion.
Unverified — sourced but not confirmed against a primary record.
Independence Park
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1968
By 1968, the last residents had left Brooklyn, relocating to public housing communities including Double Oaks, University Park, Piedmont Courts, and Earle Village, as well as neighborhoods including Biddleville, Belmont, Villa Heights, Washington Heights, Wesley Heights, and Wilmore.
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1969
Highland Park Mill No. 3 closed in 1969, and the Mecklenburg Mill (by then renamed Mercury Mill) ceased operations soon after.
Alpha Mill Mecklenburg Cotton Mill Ada Mill Orient Mill Victor Cotton Mill Highland Park Manufacturing Company
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1970
Marshall Park is a 5.5-acre urban park at 800 East Third Street built on part of the former Second Ward (Brooklyn) neighborhood after urban renewal demolition cleared the site.
Marshall Park Redevelopment Commission W.W. Ward
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1970
The land cleared from Brooklyn's demolition was used to build the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center, the Mecklenburg County Courthouse, Marshall Park, and, decades later, the NASCAR Hall of Fame — government and civic buildings replaced the residential and commercial Black neighborhood that had stood there.
NASCAR Hall of Fame Marshall Park Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center Mecklenburg County Courthouse NASCAR Hall of Fame
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1970 · 1970-09-01
Beginning in fall 1970, students from West Mecklenburg, Harding, Garinger, North Mecklenburg, and Myers Park high schools were bused into West Charlotte High School under the Finger plan, and the initial rollout produced tension including riots at the school before it stabilized into an integrated campus.
Unverified — sourced but not confirmed against a primary record.
Harding High School Second Ward High School Central High School W.R. Myers
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1988 · 1988-10-20
Highland Park Manufacturing Company Mill No. 3 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 20, 1988 (NRHP reference number 88001855).
Alpha Mill Mecklenburg Cotton Mill Ada Mill Orient Mill Victor Cotton Mill Highland Park Manufacturing Company
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2013
Romare Bearden Park's design includes two gardens, a dining courtyard on crushed granite, a formal event green, an interactive digital chime play area, and several waterfalls, and it sits directly across from the Charlotte Knights' stadium (Truist Field).
Romare Bearden Park Truist Field
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2013 · 2013-08-31
Romare Bearden Park, a 5.4-acre uptown park at 300 S. Church Street designed by artist Norie Sato based on the work of Charlotte-born artist Romare Bearden, had its grand opening over August 31–September 1, 2013.
Romare Bearden Park Mecklenburg Presbytery First United Presbyterian Church First Baptist Church West
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2018
The final master plan for the Brooklyn Village redevelopment — a $700 million, 17-acre mixed-use project on the former Bob Walton Plaza, Marshall Park, and former school board property — was approved in June 2018.
Unverified — sourced but not confirmed against a primary record.
Marshall Park Harding High School Second Ward High School Central High School
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2018
The Little Sugar Creek Greenway was further extended in 2018 with a 1.5-mile section from Tyvola Road to Huntingtowne Farms Park.
Sugaw Creek Presbyterian Church
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2020
The Little Sugar Creek Greenway was expanded in 2020 with a 2.2-mile segment from Huntingtowne Farms Park to I-485.
Sugaw Creek Presbyterian Church
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2020 · 2020-05-29
On May 29, 2020, hundreds of protesters marched down Beatties Ford Road in Charlotte following George Floyd's murder; some threw rocks and bottles at police and damaged police vehicles, store windows were smashed and looting occurred at University Park Shopping Center, and police deployed pepper-spray projectiles; City Councilman Braxton Winston was among those arrested.
Ford Motor Company King George
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2020 · 2020-06-01
On June 1, 2020, around 200 protesters marched in Uptown Charlotte while a separate demonstration at Freedom Park remained peaceful; police reported some rock- and firecracker-throwing, issued dispersal orders, and made one arrest at Church Street and MLK Boulevard.
Freedom Park Mecklenburg Presbytery First United Presbyterian Church First Baptist Church West
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2022
Developer Crossland Southeast began construction in August 2022 on 39 acres of the former Eastland Mall site, planning 155 single-family homes, 280 multi-family units, retail/office space, and a county park.
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Latta Park opened in 1891 as an amusement and recreation ground built by the 4Cs at the streetcar line's terminus in Dilworth, featuring a lake, pavilion, greenhouse, and picnic grounds designed to draw streetcar riders — and prospective lot buyers — out to the new suburb.

The Highland Park subdivision, platted in 1891 on the former Shannonhouse farm east of downtown, was the first of five subdivisions that merged into Charlotte's Elizabeth neighborhood, making Elizabeth the city's second streetcar suburb after Dilworth.

To draw crowds to Dilworth's opening day on May 20, 1891, Edward Dilworth Latta arranged a championship semipro baseball game at the newly built Latta Park between teams from Winston, North Carolina, and Columbia, South Carolina — the park's first game, played at its grand opening.

On June 19, 1891 the Charlotte Democrat newspaper announced that the newly organized Highland Park Manufacturing Company, led by president W.E. Holt and secretary-treasurer C.W. Johnson, would build a gingham mill in Charlotte — the city's fifth cotton mill.

Highland Park Mill No. 1 opened in early 1892 on North Brevard Street just outside Charlotte, equipped with 465 looms producing gingham cloth; D.A. Tompkins was among its investors.

A $100,000 power-generating plant Highland Park built on Sugar Creek made Highland Park Mills No. 1 and No. 3 North Carolina's first electrically driven textile mills, a technological milestone in the state's cotton-mill industry.

Construction began in early 1897 on Elizabeth College, a Lutheran women's college built on land donated by the Highland Park Company and renamed for benefactor Elizabeth Watts of Baltimore, giving both the Elizabeth neighborhood and Elizabeth Avenue their name.

Construction of Highland Park Manufacturing Company Mill No. 3 began in 1903, with the original mill building completed in 1903-1904, designed by textile engineer Stuart W. Cramer.

Construction of houses in the Highland Park section of Elizabeth accelerated rapidly after the 1903 extension of the East Trade Street streetcar line along Elizabeth Avenue to Elizabeth College and out present-day Hawthorne Lane.

North Charlotte's mill village was founded in 1903 when textile magnates William Holt (of Alamance County) and Jesse Spencer and Charles W. Johnston (of Charlotte) joined to build the Highland Park Manufacturing Company and the surrounding mill village.

At its opening, Highland Park Mill No. 3 had a capacity of 20,000 spindles and 500 looms, employed about 800 workers, and produced gingham cloth as its principal product.

Highland Park Mill No. 3 was the first textile mill in North Carolina specifically designed and constructed to operate on electric power rather than steam power.

Independence Park, Charlotte's first public park, was established in 1904 on former city-reservoir land within the Elizabeth Heights subdivision, with its interior originally laid out by landscape architect John Nolen while he was still a Harvard graduate student.

Highland Park Manufacturing Company Mill No. 3 opened in November 1904 as the largest and most imposing cotton mill yet erected in Charlotte, located on the Southern Railroad line just north of the city.

Mecklenburg Cotton Mill opened in November 1904 just north of Highland Park Mill No. 3 and drew its power from Highland Park's power house.

According to the North Charlotte Historic District's National Register documentation, Mecklenburg Mill opened in 1905, one year after Highland Park Mill No. 3.

By 1907 the Highland Park Manufacturing Company had grown into the nation's third-largest gingham producer, expanding to include additional plants and running roughly 30,000 spindles and 1,000 looms with more than 800 employees across its operations.

Electric Park, an amusement park, opened in 1908 on North Charlotte's 36th Street on the site of the former Mecklenburg County Poor House.

Developer George Stephens announced plans for Myers Park in 1911, and Boston landscape architect John Nolen produced the neighborhood's original master plan that year, featuring curving streets that followed natural topography and a 110-foot-wide boulevard (Queens Road) as its spine.

In early 1912 a crew of about fifty laborers and twenty-four horse teams began grading the first four miles of Queens Road and adjoining streets, marking the start of physical construction in Myers Park.

Johnston Manufacturing Company was established in 1913 by Charles Worth (C.W.) Johnston, producing cotton yarn from a plant located in North Charlotte between Highland Park Mill No. 3 and Mecklenburg Mill.

George Stephens, Myers Park's developer, built his own wood-shingled house at 821 Harvard Place in 1915, the same year several Southern Power Company executives also built homes in the new suburb.

In 1917 landscape architect Earle Sumner Draper, who had been John Nolen's on-site field supervisor since 1915, took over design of Myers Park, softening Nolen's street curves and adding a second entrance at East Boulevard.

In 1919 tobacco and power magnate James B. Duke bought the 1915 Taylor House on Hermitage Road overlooking Edgehill Park and had architect C. C. Hook triple it in size into the 52-room Duke Mansion, Myers Park's architectural centerpiece.

George Stephens resigned from active management of the Stephens Company in 1922 and moved to Asheville, after which new management showed less interest in Nolen's and Draper's planning principles and Draper's involvement in Myers Park ended.

The Camp Greene Memorial was erected and dedicated on November 23, 1926, by the Mecklenburg Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and stands at the corner of Wilkinson Boulevard and Monument Street in the Ashley Park/Wilmore area of Charlotte.

By 1928 the City of Charlotte had annexed virtually all of Myers Park, and that year the neighborhood received its own C. C. Hook-designed public elementary school on Radcliffe Avenue.

The Independence Park baseball grandstand in Charlotte was built between 1932 and 1935 using federal relief labor, started under the Civil Works Administration (CWA) and completed under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA).

Charlotte Mayor Arthur E. Wearn secured $70,000 in federal FERA and CWA relief funding to begin building a stadium in Independence Park, the project that became American Legion Memorial Stadium.

The new Charlotte stadium under construction in Independence Park was officially named American Legion Memorial Stadium, honoring Mecklenburg County soldiers who died in World War I, in recognition of Hornet's Nest Post No. 9 of the American Legion.

By 1968, the last residents had left Brooklyn, relocating to public housing communities including Double Oaks, University Park, Piedmont Courts, and Earle Village, as well as neighborhoods including Biddleville, Belmont, Villa Heights, Washington Heights, Wesley Heights, and Wilmore.

Highland Park Mill No. 3 closed in 1969, and the Mecklenburg Mill (by then renamed Mercury Mill) ceased operations soon after.

Marshall Park is a 5.5-acre urban park at 800 East Third Street built on part of the former Second Ward (Brooklyn) neighborhood after urban renewal demolition cleared the site.

Highland Park Manufacturing Company Mill No. 3 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 20, 1988 (NRHP reference number 88001855).

Romare Bearden Park's design includes two gardens, a dining courtyard on crushed granite, a formal event green, an interactive digital chime play area, and several waterfalls, and it sits directly across from the Charlotte Knights' stadium (Truist Field).

Romare Bearden Park, a 5.4-acre uptown park at 300 S. Church Street designed by artist Norie Sato based on the work of Charlotte-born artist Romare Bearden, had its grand opening over August 31–September 1, 2013.

The final master plan for the Brooklyn Village redevelopment — a $700 million, 17-acre mixed-use project on the former Bob Walton Plaza, Marshall Park, and former school board property — was approved in June 2018.

The Little Sugar Creek Greenway was further extended in 2018 with a 1.5-mile section from Tyvola Road to Huntingtowne Farms Park.

The Little Sugar Creek Greenway was expanded in 2020 with a 2.2-mile segment from Huntingtowne Farms Park to I-485.

On June 1, 2020, around 200 protesters marched in Uptown Charlotte while a separate demonstration at Freedom Park remained peaceful; police reported some rock- and firecracker-throwing, issued dispersal orders, and made one arrest at Church Street and MLK Boulevard.

Developer Crossland Southeast began construction in August 2022 on 39 acres of the former Eastland Mall site, planning 155 single-family homes, 280 multi-family units, retail/office space, and a county park.