City Park

Charlotte, North Carolina

City Park is an active lifestyle community that will physically integrate a very disconnected area of the city. 

The 170-acre site that once housed the 465,000 square foot coliseum and 70 acres of parking will be transformed into a mixed-use active lifestyle community that creates a central ‘place’ where none currently exists. City Park physically fills the void left by the vacant coliseum and simultaneously integrates an area of the city that was once fragmented by the coliseum’s presence.

The fundamental concept behind the design of City Park is integration of land and uses through open space and recreation.

The design for the site began with a recreation plan, the primary feature being a 3-mile multi-use asphalt trail for running, cycling, mountain biking, and walking.

Coined as ‘The Loop’, the trail encircles the site and provides direct connections to all of the adjacent properties.  The idea of connecting City Park to Renaissance Park, in addition to the other adjacent uses via open space and trails provided a framework from which to develop the plan for rest of the site. 

Reuse of existing site features and infrastructure was another conceptual basis upon which the master plan was developed.

Award:

2007 NCASLA Honor Award for Planning & Analysis - City Park

Charlotte, North Carolina