Charlotte Area
Arbor Village Apartment Homes are located in southeast Charlotte, North Carolina. On this page, you will find:
- Map of Area
- Quick Facts about Charlotte
- Living in Charlotte
- Schools, Shopping, Places of Worship
- Cultural & Leisure Activities
- Geography & History
Southeast Charlotte Area
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Source: Travel Channel
Living in Charlotte
CNN’s Money Magazine ranked Charlotte at 8 of the 100 best places to live and launch small business, stating that is had a “steady influx of young educated workers, business-friendly banking community, local sports entertainment.”
Source: Article at money.cnn.com
NC Tourism describes Charlotte:
“The largest city between Washington, DC and Dallas, Charlotte’s gleaming skyline rises from the surrounding North Carolina Piedmont like a beacon. Charlotte is now the second biggest financial center in the US (after New York), it has an airport that is a major airline hub, it is the center of the motorsports universe, and hosts the NFL’s Panthers and the NBA’s Bobcats. Charlotte has already constructed the Carolinas’ first commuter light rail system, and is busily preparing for the opening of the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2010. In short, Charlotte is a can-do city that never fails to impress and entertain, while still managing to hang onto much of its traditional charm and Southern hospitality.”
Source: Visit-NC.com
Schools, Shopping, Places of Worship
Schools in the Area:
- Alexander Graham Middle School
- Central Piedmont Community College
- Davidson College
- Johnson and Wales University
- Johnson C. Smith University
- Kings College
- Myers Park High School
- Queens University of Charlotte
- Sharon Elementary School
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Winthrop University
Shopping
- Harris Teeter (0.8 mi)
- Talley’s Green Grocery (1.7 mi)
- Food Lion (1.8 mi S)
- Crossroads Mall (2.4 mi)
Places of Worship
- Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church
- Diocese of Charlotte
- Dilworth Baptist Church
- Calvary United Methodist Church
- Saint Patrick’s Cathedral Church
- Cathey Memorial AME Zion Church
Cultural & Leisure Activities
Sports Since the team’s inception in 1993, the NFL’s Carolina Panthers have called Charlotte home. The Panthers wow crowds on many a Sunday on the field at Charlotte’s Bank of America Stadium. For basketball fans, the NBA Charlotte Bobcats and the WNBA Charlotte Sting keep audiences on their feet year round at Charlotte Bobcats Arena. Charlotte, of course, is one of the prime destinations for NASCAR fans. Racing enthusiasts can go hog wild at the world famous Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
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- Visit the Carolina Panthers Stadium online
Music The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra has entertained the people of Charlotte for decades, performing a lengthy series of classics (from Tchaikovsky to Wagner) every year at historic Ovens Auditorium, and the architectural marvel Belk Theatre (where even the cheapest of seats are never more than 135 feet from the stage). Opera Carolina, based in Charlotte, performs four epic productions at Belk Theatre each year (from “Porgy and Bess” to “La Boheme”), as well as an annual holiday production of “Amahl and the Night Visitors,” and an extensive series of Education & Outreach productions all over both North and South Carolina. Giving Belk Theatre a run for its money, Tremont Music Hall likes to say that here, “you’re never more than 50 feet from the stage.” At such close range, audiences are continually bowled over by their favorite national touring rock bands (like X, MXPX, and KMFDM). The Visulite Theatre, hosts rock bands as well (such as the Reverend Horton Heat and Birdmonster), this time in a retired movie house setting. The Milestone Club provides Charlotte with easy access to the underground music scene, playing host to punk and metal bands from all over the world, not the least of which are the Melvins and Green Milk for the Planet Orange. For folk aficionados, The Evening Muse just might be a home away from home. Up-and-coming singer-songwriters like Gary Jules and Dan Bern take the stage at this intimate venue, where the walls are adorned with the works of local artists.
Comedy The Comedy Zone brings Charlotte the most sought-after national touring comedians, from Dave Chappelle to Jerry Seinfeld. The Charlotte Comedy Theater, on the other hand, is a local improve troupe dedicated to making their community laugh.
Art In the refurbished remains of the historic Charlotte Mint lies the Mint Museum of Art, home to a number of exciting collections, from ancient American art, to Spanish Colonial, European, and contemporary. For a more bohemian experience, one can venture into Charlotte’s “NoDa” arts district, where galleries and art studios like Hart Witzen Gallery and the ArtHouse line the boulevards. On the first and third Fridays of each month, art lovers are invited to visit such establishments on NoDa’s famous Gallery Crawl.
Museums The Afro-American Cultural Center works to preserve African American art, culture, and history, and present it to audiences for educational purposes as well as sheer enjoyment. Housed partly in the original 1936 hangar of Charlotte’s original municipal airport, the Carolinas Aviation Museum is an aviation nut’s dream. Their collection includes everything from a replica of the Wright Brothers’ 1902 Wright Glider to the Grumman F-14D Super Tomcat, made famous by the film Top Gun. Also on display are a startling array of jets, helicopters, ordnance and missiles, rockets, and even spacecraft. The Levine Museum of the New South bills itself as an “interactive history museum,” and, as such, uses a wide variety of multimedia exhibits to tell the story of the South since the end of the Civil War. The museum tells this story from many different perspectives, with an eye toward creating greater understanding and painting a more complete picture than traditional history books have attempted.
Source: Travel Channel Guides
Geography & History
Charlotte sits amongst the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, in a region known as the Carolina Piedmont. It is located approximately 227 miles from Knoxville, TN, about 183 miles Richmond, VA, and 318 miles to Myrtle Beach, SC, on the Atlantic coast.
Charlotte was born in the mid-Eighteenth century, at the crossroads of two great Native American trade routes. Scots-Irish, German, English, and French Huguenot settlers followed the Great Wagon Road into the Carolina foothills, where the Catawba Indians made their home. The settlers set up shop at the aforementioned intersection of trade routes, recognizing the potential of the fertile land and central location.
In recent decades, Charlotte’s distribution networks and control over high finance have done nothing but grow. While the city has become an international banking capital (home to Fortune 500 companies like Bank of America and Wachovia), the people of Charlotte have not forgotten their rich and tumultuous history.
Locals cherish General Cornwallis’ characterization of their city, and continue to celebrate Charlotte’s revolutionary reputation. Contemporary reminders of this section of the city’s storied past include major transit corridors like Independence Boulevard and Freedom Drive, commercial hubs such as the Independence Center, community gathering places like Freedom Park and Independence Park, and, of course, the NBA’s long-time Charlotte Hornets. The old mint no longer functions as such, but in its place, the Mint Museum of Craft and Design and the Mint Museum of Art stand as prominent tributes to Charlotte’s fabled gold rush and its subsequent establishment as a city of serious financial weight.
Charlotte’s people have not lost their Revolutionary War-era fighting spirit either. When the Hornets were hijacked to New Orleans in 2002, Charlotte wasted no time securing a new NBA team to call its own. The Charlotte Bobcats entered the league in 2004, and continue to thrill audiences at Charlotte Bobcats Arena. For NASCAR fans, Charlotte is something of a Mecca as well. It is home to the world famous Lowe’s Motor Speedway and around 75% of the American motor sports industry’s employees are headquartered in and around downtown Charlotte.
Source: Travel Channel Guide