Remount Road/West Boulevard Intersection Improvements

Announcement

July 18, 2024 - Real estate acquisition is underway, during which the city acquires the property rights needed to build and maintain the project. City real estate agents will engage affected property owners to explain the acquisition process and answer any questions. The artist, Monique Luck, is preparing final concepts for the artwork that will be placed on all four corners of the intersection.

  • Project typeTransportation; Placemaking
  • Project budget$3.8 million (includes all costs associated with the project such as planning and design, acquiring the right-of-way, utility relocation, consultant fees, construction, signalization, permits and landscaping)
  • Project phaseDesign

close-up of a brightly painted street in West Charlotte

Part of Corridors of Opportunity - West Boulevard

 

Project Overview

In partnership with the West Boulevard Neighborhood Coalition, the City of Charlotte led a study that served as a first step in providing a vision for the West Boulevard corridor with a focus on the intersections of Remount Road, Clanton Road and Old Steele Creek Road. The West Boulevard and Remount Road intersection project was selected from this study and was recommended in the West Boulevard Playbook. 
The strategy for Remount Road is to create an enhanced neighborhood node with a safe, walkable pedestrian environment by focusing dense development along the West Boulevard corridor and orienting retail entrances and public space toward the intersection. 

The project proposes to install a decorative plaza, multiuse path, transportation bus shelters, pedestrian lighting, landscaping, crosswalks, wheelchair ramps, pedestrian signals and site furnishings. Through placemaking, the history and culture of the corridor will be reflected in the project’s improvements.

Project Goals

  • To improve pedestrian mobility and safety
  • To incorporate the history and culture of the corridor in the infrastructure investment

Public Involvement

Public meetings took place in the fall of 2021 and Feb. 2023 to engage the public and get their feedback on this project. Another meeting took place in Feb. 2024 at the West Boulevard Library to meet the selected artists. 

Vicinity Map

aerial map of project area with a yellow line depicting the roadway getting improvements

Project Contacts

Kristie Kennedy, EI
Senior Engineering Project Manager
General Services
704.591.3954
kristie.kennedy@charlottenc.gov

Will Linville, AICP CNUa
Program Manager
Urban Design Center
Planning, Design & Development
980.287.7124
william.linville@charlottenc.gov

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Public Art by Monique Luck

a young multiracial woman standing in front on a large mural of a child's face

Above: Monique Luck in front of her work titled "Lost and Found." Photo by Eric C. Halili III

Monique Luck is an award-winning international artist and muralist. Her work can be found at art galleries and museums across the country, including the African American Museum of Dallas, The South Carolina State Museum and the Heinz History Center Museum in Pittsburgh.

Locally, you can find her work at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture. Her installation "Welcoming Dreams" is at the Renaissance West Community Initiative. She completed a residency at the McColl Center for Arts + Innovation and was selected twice as one of Charlotte's ArtPop Street Gallery Public Art artists. 

Luck has won numerous awards, including Judges Choice and Best in Show at Charlotte's Festival in the Park, Honorable Mention at the Beverly Hills Art Show and Best Bearden-Inspired Collage at the Mint Museum.

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