project: BELMONT AREA REVITALIZATION PLAN
date: 2002
location: CHARLOTTE, NC
client: CHARLOTTE/MECKLENBURG PLANNING DEPARTMENT
contact: DEBRA CAMPBELL, DIRECTOR OF PLANNING
The Belmont Area Revitalization Plan is a planning effort sponsored and funded by the City of Charlotte and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission. This project focused on revitalizing one of Charlotte’s oldest inner city neighborhoods into a safe and sustainable community. The project study area encompasses 522 acres equivalent to 1,647 parcels.
Through a four-phase planning process, the planning team, led by Urban Collage, Inc. in collaboration with Asset Property Disposition, Inc., GNA Design & Assoc., and Robert Charles Lesser & Company developed a strategic action plan for implementation which identifies opportunities, projects and partnerships consistent with the community’s vision, focusing on community improvement. In particular, this plan provided parcel-by-parcel recommendations for land use, implementation and capital improvements.
The primary redevelopment opportunities in the Belmont area include:
- 150 Single Family homes on infill lots;
- Growing the Central Avenue commercial district;
- Adaptive reuse of the Hawthorne Mill for residential units and office studios;
- Redevelopment of Piedmont Courts as a mixed-income community;
- Create community and civic pride through public improvements to the Hawthorne Middle School and Little Sugar Creek Greenway.
