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Nov 2, 2021 · The restaurant became a unifying spot for the African American community during the 1970s. The restaurant stayed on the corner of LaSalle and Beatties Ford Road until 1981 when they moved locations. The history of the building was forgotten until Christopher Dennis came along.
- Maureen Wurtz
- Beatties Ford Road
- Dalebrook
- Lincoln Heights
- Mccrorey Heights
- Oaklawn Park
- University Park
- Washington Heights
Beatties Ford Road, which provides a direct route into uptown Charlotte via West Trade Street, has served as a central corridor for the city’s African American community for decades. Established along that thoroughfare in 1876, the campus of Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU) offered a uniquely appropriate genesis from which the community grew and ...
Dalebrook was designed and built by Charles Ervin, a Charlotte-based developer whose Ervin Construction Company became the nation’s seventh largest homebuilder by the 1960s. The neighborhood launched in 1960 and quickly sold out within its first year. The self-contained community (located within the larger Lincoln Heights neighborhood) was the prem...
In the 1920s, the Southern Realty and Development Corporation initially developed the Lincoln Heights neighborhood as a subdivision for white Charlotteans, and even attempted to lure Durham’s Duke University to relocate to Charlotte’s West End. Those efforts proved unsuccessful, leaving the neighborhood largely undeveloped until the post-World War ...
McCrorey Heights, located northeast of the JCSU campus, just adjacent to the I-77/I-277 exchange, started in 1912, thanks to the efforts of then-JCSU president Reverend Henry L. McCrorey, who served the University in that capacity for forty years. The neighborhood grew quickly between the early 1950s and early 1970s into what historian Tom Hanchett...
Just north of McCrorey Heights lies Oaklawn Park, another neighborhood designed and built by Charles Ervin and his Ervin Construction Company, which dates back to 1954. According to Dr. Hanchett, the neighborhood was constructed specifically for African-American families during the waning days of racial segregation, and is one of Charlotte’s best-p...
Containing hundreds of homes, University Park is a large neighborhood that grew in stages starting in the late 1950s. That piecemeal growth complicated initial efforts to identify a definitive boundary of the neighborhood. Using recorded subdivision maps, HLC Staff and the historical consultant were able to develop this boundary map of the historic...
One of the oldest neighborhoods along the Beatties Ford Road corridor, Washington Heights was actually a Charlotte suburb that symbolized the growing economic strength of the city’s African American community when it opened in the early 1910s. As Charlotte expanded, what was once suburb became city, and the Washington Heights neighborhood offered a...
Jun 8, 1990 · On its meandering journey of 15 miles, Beatties Ford has long been a symbol of tradition and hope. It spans the gaps from urban to rural, black to white, from landed gentry to urban underclass. “In the richness of its history, it’s unparalleled,” says historian Dan Morrill of UNC Charlotte.
Sep 9, 2020 · Most of Charlotte’s leadership — the mayor, the police chief, the city manager, council members, and commissioners — met and cheered under tents on Beatties Ford Road on a rainy Wednesday to show pictures and talk about the future.
Feb 23, 2022 · Beatties Ford Road has a long and important history with the African American community. It connected families to the businesses they ran, the churches they attended and gave them a true sense of community.
- Maureen Wurtz
Nov 9, 2021 · The Charlotte developer behind the Beatties Ford revitalization project says the changes should benefit those worried about losing their homes to gentrification.
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Jan 5, 2022 · What’s happening: Change is underway at Beatties Ford Road and LaSalle Street, with the transformation of 2020 and 2023 Beatties Ford Road, two commercial properties owned by Dennis’ E-Fix Development Corp. 2023 Beatties Ford Road’s anchor tenant, Chase bank, opened on Nov. 4, 2021.
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