West Charlotte
This is the best place to see the juxtaposition of old and new. There still are landowners who trace their family homesteads to pre-Revolutionary land grants from George III, and pockets of forested idylls. Located nearby is the Nation’s 12th busiest airport – Charlotte/Douglas International – as well as much of the area’s heavy industry. Airport noise hampered residential growth on the far, east side. Northwest, around the extension of Beatties Ford Road, one can find a unique pocket of upper-income subdivisions. To the west, around Mount Holly-Huntersville Road, new subdivisions have cropped up in the still-rural area.
Highlights: Charlotte’s regional Farmer’s Market (on Yorkmont Road), the Charlotte Coliseum.
Look for: Beatties Ford Road, an urban street and historic country road, going from uptown to the Catawba River.
