In 1993, the Charlotte Housing Authority received a federal grant to redevelop Earle Village, a public housing complex. The redevelopment of First Ward Place is being hailed nationally as an enlightened and economically viable alternative to low-income housing, providing nearly half its residents housing assistance. First Ward Place, in turn, became the engine that drove the economic miracle that is the First Ward neighborhood today. |
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Traditionally known as "the government district", the Second Ward of Uptown Charlotte is home to city and county office buildings, county courthouse, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools administration, the Law Enforcement Center and the Charlotte branch of the Federal Reserve Bank. The Second Ward is bordered by Trade Street running East and West, Tryon Street running North and South, and 277 as a southernmost border. More recently Second Ward has received a great deal of attention as the future home of the Nascar Hall of Fame and a growing tourism sector of the Uptown with a new entertainment complex and convention center. Donald Trump has announced that the Trump Organization is considering a site in Second Ward as a potential mixed-use development site that will combine retail, hotel, commercial office space, and residential uses into one tower. | 
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| Third Ward today is the most diverse of the city's wards. It includes a sports and entertainment area, university, a residential neighborhood, and a 1.5 million square foot mixed use complex called Gateway Village. This innovative complex combines technology-oriented office space, over 500 new residential units, a public park, shops and restaurants. Gateway Village is attracting attention nationwide for creative positioning of a mixed-use development in an urban setting. The Third Ward has been the center of much development recently as is posed to be the next big thing in the Uptown. | 
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The Fourth Ward is a predominantly residential neighborhood artfully blends restored 100-plus-year-old homes with newer construction designed to be compatible with its surroundings. The Fourth Ward is often described as charming, quaint, or delightful.
The neighborhood, once run-down and largely abandoned, now sits as the most desired community in the Uptown. The neighborhood stands as a beacon of restoration and renewal of older homes and constrution of new housing in the Urban core. |  |
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Uptown Neighborhoods 
