Brooklyn Village

12/05/2022

The Brooklyn Village team is working towards ensuring opportunities for Black-owned businesses to bring back the area’s once bustling economy. Monte Richey, President of Conformity Corporation - a partner with The Peebles Corporation in the redevelopment of Brooklyn Village - joined Gwen Jackson of Brooklyn Properties for the first episode of Charlotte’s Brooklyn Now, a new podcast focusing on the importance and history of the Brooklyn Village neighborhood & development. Listen on Spotify and read more about the project at the link in our bio.

11/08/2022

The breaking ground of Brooklyn Village is on track to kick off next year, in early 2023. The initial phase of Brooklyn Village will include two multifamily buildings - totaling 540 units - as well as retail, office space and a hotel for visitors from around the world to experience Charlotte. Read more about phase one of Brooklyn Village's timeline in our bio. ⁠
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08/31/2022

CLT is a list maker! In 2021, Forbes named Charlotte one of the best places to retire.

08/29/2022

The Brooklyn Village project will include affordable housing, beginning in Phase I of the development. It will include no less than 114 affordable homes, more than triple the amount required by Mecklenburg County.

A variety of price points will be included: 30%, 60% and 80% of AMI (Area Median Income) in an effort to serve a broader spectrum of Charlotte’s residents with walkability to major employers, restaurants and cultural amenities.

08/25/2022

Charlotte Museum of History's current exhibit Charlotte: Signs of Home features business signs from throughout the city including Uptown.

Stop by and see the history of Charlotte in a unique way. The exhibit ends in December.

08/22/2022

[PHOTO DROP] Charlotte’s skyline has changed over the decades! The first photo is a vintage image, circa 1987 from .retro and the second is from earlier this month via photographer .

08/18/2022

Over several months, BK Partners hosted 14 community meetings to hear more from Charlotte citizens and former Brooklyn residents about what they’d like to see for the project.

The feedback from the meetings were reviewed with Mecklenburg County and laid the foundation for the Master Redevelopment Agreement for Brooklyn Village.

08/15/2022

08/10/2022

Rose Leary Love was a resident of Brooklyn and journaled many memories of the neighborhood which were translated into a book entitled Plum Thickets and Field Daisies in 1996.

The book is available at Charlotte Mecklenburg Library and included stories about housing, the people of the neighborhood including the author’s mother, musicians and the importance of church to the residents and more.

08/08/2022

Did you know that The J. Murrey Atkins Library at UNCC created resource guides on various Charlotte related topics? The guides range in subject matter but there is one entitled Charlotte Historic Neighborhoods and Brooklyn is included.

You can learn about the history, everyday life and more: http://ow.ly/sRGz50KabUz.

08/05/2022

Congratulations to The Brooklyn Collective Charlotte and their Executive Director, Monique Douglas on being featured in the summer issue of QC Exclusive.

She shares her thoughts on preserving the legacy of Brooklyn, art and creating a community at the center that is housed in one of remaining buildings that is original to the Brooklyn neighborhood. Brooklyn Collective is located at 229 S. Brevard Street.

Graphic: The Brooklyn Collective Charlotte

08/03/2022

The BK Partners began its work by seeking to understand the Second Ward’s past. We reached out to historians and neighborhood associations. Brooklyn Village encompassed a much larger area than the two sites we are working on, but vibrancy, and a dearth of activity is what describes the history of the area.

Our vision is to bring vibrancy back to this area of Charlotte.