Alyson Craig, Assistant City Manager

Alyson Craig serves as an Assistant City Manager for the City of Charlotte. Her portfolio includes the Planning, Design and Development department, Economic Development, Charlotte Water, and the CLT Development Center, the city’s seven-department one-stop shop for permitting.

Previously, Alyson served as Planning Director for the City of Charlotte, overseeing department initiatives that included Charlotte 2040 Comprehensive Plan and Unified Development Ordinance implementation, regional transportation planning, long-range planning, land development permitting, tree canopy plans and policies, historic districts, urban design, annexations, the rezoning process and the CLT Development Center. Alyson joined the city as the Deputy Planning Director in 2018.

Before joining the City of Charlotte, Alyson worked at UNC Charlotte as the Co-Director of the Childress Klein Center for Real Estate and the Director of the Master of Science in Real Estate (MSRE) program. She taught classes in the MSRE program that included Site Planning and Real Estate Development and took students abroad each summer to study land use planning in countries across the world.

Prior to joining the faculty at UNC Charlotte, Alyson worked for Grubb Properties’ Investment team managing office, multi-family, and mixed-use development and acquisition projects. Before moving to Charlotte in 2011, she was Vice President of a planning and engineering firm in Florida, working with clients on development agreements, entitlements, rezonings and annexations for large multi-use land development projects.

Alyson has a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master of Science in Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development from the University of Georgia and a Master of Science in Real Estate from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.