September 6, 2024 - The project team is about to start 90% plans. The real estate phase is expected to start before the end of the year and the bid phase is expected to start in late 2025.
Part of the Uptown CycleLink program
In the spring of 2016, the Charlotte Department of Transportation partnered with Charlotte Center City Partners to develop the Uptown Connects! Study, which identifies challenges of bicycling in uptown Charlotte and provides a series of recommendations to make cycling safer and more comfortable. The study also provides recommendations to link existing and future greenways and urban trail facilities and destinations throughout uptown. The Belk Greenway Connector was one of those recommendations.
The original limits of the project began at the intersection of Pearl Park Way and Kenilworth Avenue and continues along Baxter Street, in tandem with the Pearl Street Park/Pappas Properties development. The project continues up McDowell Street, under I-277 and ended at the intersection of East Brooklyn Village Avenue and McDowell Street. Due to additional development in the area, the scope was revised and will now install a two-way cycle track along McDowell Road making the connection between Baxter Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard.
Project Goals
Jeremy Shue, EI Project Manager General Services 980.423.8477 jeremy.shue@charlottenc.gov