In response to the winter weather and extreme cold forecasted, activation of extreme weather protocols will begin the morning of Wednesday, Feb. 19 through at least the morning of Friday, Feb. 21, which includes additional capacity at area homeless shelters.

DetraPel, Inc., a clean-tech advanced materials company, has chosen to relocate its headquarters and advanced manufacturing operations to Mecklenburg County. The company will invest $3.5 million and bring more than 30 new jobs to southwest Charlotte.

Designed by prominent Charlotte architect C. C. Hooks, the Thrift Depot is the last surviving station of Mecklenburg County’s once-thriving Piedmont and Northern Railroad Company. 

The Abernethy House was once the centerpiece of the farm that supported the operations of Sundale Dairies. 

The Washam Farm was anchored by a rare example of a bungalow-style farmhouse originally constructed as a three-room tenant house. 

The Neoclassical styled Charlotte City Hall anchored an entire city block dedicated to municipal government. 

The C. C. Hook-designed Fire Station No. 4 is uptown Charlotte’s only surviving pre-WWII building that once served as a fire station. 

A small chapel is all that remains of Good Samaritan Hospital, the final surviving remnant of Charlotte’s a once-flourishing Third Ward Black community. 

The Louis Asbury designed Mecklenburg County Courthouse was the subject of a bitter dispute between urban Charlotteans and the county’s rural communities. 

The Seaboard Air Line Railroad Passenger Terminal is Charlotte’s only surviving nineteenth-century railroad passenger terminal.