Gentrification vs. growth in Charlotte: Do we stop or embrace it?

The Charlotte Observer

How Charlotte's historic Black neighborhoods, impacted by necessary growth around the city, are disappearing as gentrification takes hold.

Allegra Westbrooks Regional Library - Beatties Ford Road

The Charlotte Observer presents a community conversation​ illuminating a key topic of concern to residents.Growth versus Gentrification: Stop or Embrace It? focuses on how historic Black neighborhoods, impacted by necessary growth around the city, are disappearing as gentrification takes hold.Join us on Thursday, June 22, 6-7:30 p.m., at the Allegra Westbrooks Regional Library for an in-person conversation with a panel of community leaders, experts and those affected by the change to explore reasons for growth and how it shapes, affects, destroys or rebuilds communities.Our panelists include Malcolm Graham, Charlotte City Council member, District 2; Boris Henderson, Aldersgate Living and Habitat for Humanity International Board Member; David Walters, Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Urban Design at UNC Charlotte; Quila Brunson, Real Estate broker, owner of Perfect House Group and a West Charlotte native; Ismaail Qaiyim, Esq.,Queen City Community Law Firm; Winston Robinson, McCrorey Heights Neighborhood Association.Any questions you have for the panel may be submitted using this form at <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSchGphf8-2hAa1mYOdJWYfdu84KCUJwVFq9271AEa7AIt6WVQ/viewform" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">this link</a>.

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