Charlotte core
South End
Charlotte's old textile corridor turned light-rail boomtown — 1890s cotton mills under glassy new apartment towers, a rail-trail walk from Uptown.
MecklenburgUptown Charlotte
Charlotte's banking-capital skyline core, where Victorian Fourth Ward houses sit blocks from the nation's second-largest concentration of banking assets.
Cities across the metro
Concord
NASCAR's home track and a 1.36-million-square-foot outlet mall anchor this independent Cabarrus County city, a short I-85 run from Uptown Charlotte.
York (SC)Fort Mill
A fast-growing Charlotte suburb across the state line, with new construction, top-rated schools, and 2,300 acres of greenway to spare.
GastonGastonia
Charlotte's historic mill-town neighbor west of the Catawba River, reinventing its textile past one redeveloped block at a time.
MecklenburgHuntersville
Charlotte's lake-town suburb, built around I-77 and the shores of Lake Norman.
MecklenburgMatthews
Charlotte's historic railroad-depot suburb, southeast of Uptown and still headquarters to Harris Teeter.
IredellMooresville
Lake Norman living meets NASCAR's working garage — "Race City USA" is a lake town with an industry all its own.
York (SC)Rock Hill
York County's seat and a mid-size city in its own right — Winthrop University, a real downtown, and Charlotte an easy drive north.
Coming soon
Kannapolis
Guide in progress.
University City
Guide in progress.
Indian Trail
Guide in progress.
Ballantyne
Guide in progress.
Cornelius
Guide in progress.
Indian Land
Guide in progress.
Mint Hill
Guide in progress.
Belmont
Guide in progress.