CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A sleepy section of Uptown is about to get a long overdue makeover.
Let's connect the dots.
Decades ago, Brooklyn was a thriving African-American neighborhood in Uptown's Second Ward. It was a town within a town with 1,500 homes, shops, restaurants and churches.
But in the '60s and '70s, it was all bulldozed in the name of development and replaced by government buildings and Marshall Park.
In recent years, a new plan slowly gained traction for a newly reimagined Brooklyn Village. Ditching the current buildings and park and replacing it with 1,200 apartments and condos of all price points.
The multi-year, multi-million dollar Brooklyn Village community is set to be smack in the heart of Uptown.
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