Belk Greenway Connector

• Project typeTrails, Paths & Bike Lanes
• Project budget$4.53 million (includes all costs associated with the project such as planning and design, acquiring the right-of-way, utility relocation, consultant fees, construction, signalization, permits and landscaping)
• Project phaseDesign; Real Estate Acquisition

Part of the Uptown CycleLink program

Project Overview

In the spring of 2016, the Charlotte Department of Transportation partnered with Charlotte Center City Partners to develop the Uptown Connects! Study, which identifies challenges of bicycling in uptown Charlotte and provides a series of recommendations to make cycling safer and more comfortable. The study also provides recommendations to link existing and future greenways and urban trail facilities and destinations throughout uptown. The Belk Greenway Connector was one of those recommendations.

The original limits of the project began at the intersection of Pearl Park Way and Kenilworth Avenue and continues along Baxter Street, in tandem with the Pearl Street Park/Pappas Properties development. The project continues up McDowell Street, under I-277 and ended at the intersection of East Brooklyn Village Avenue and McDowell Street. Due to additional development in the area, the scope was revised and will now install a two-way cycle track along McDowell Road making the connection between Baxter Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard.

Project Goals

• To provide the bike connection between Baxter Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard
• To provide east/west bicyclist connectivity in and through uptown Charlotte