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SouthPark, Charlotte, once a prototypical car-centric retail corridor is now squarely in the crosshairs of transformation. Houston-based Hines is eyeing a 3.88-acre site across from SouthPark Mall, currently occupied by a surface parking lot and a one-story commercial building including Rooster’s Wood-Fired Kitchen. The plan? A mixed-use tower up to 275 feet tall, with residential units, office space, ground-floor retail/restaurants, and publicly-accessible open space.
For planners thinking about suburban retrofit, this site is instructive. The location checks many of the right boxes: adjacency to major retail and employment, an existing surface-parking “dead zone,” and a developer with appetite for density. The early buzz from stakeholders is positive SouthPark Community Partners, a local economic-development group, has been in preliminary talks with Hines and considers the proposal as “great news” for the neighborhood.