🎥 Flyover Friday: The highlights of LoSo
A closer look at Lower South End — with drone videos
The following article appeared in the Jan. 26, 2024, edition of The Charlotte Ledger, an e-newsletter with smart and original local news for Charlotte. We offer free and paid subscription plans. More info here.
Charlotte’s Lower South End neighborhood, called LoSo, is changing from a warehouse district to an area filled with new entertainment, housing and dining hotspots.
Over the last decade, Charlotte’s Lower South End neighborhood, known as “LoSo,” has emerged from its industrial warehouse roots and transformed into a destination neighborhood with apartment living and after-hours fun.
It’s home to Charlotte staple Olde Mecklenburg Brewery, which first tapped into the area’s potential back in 2009. But it wasn’t until recent years that the area transformed into a living and entertainment landing place.
LoSo — which is generally defined as the area between South Tryon Street and South Boulevard, from Clanton Road to the north to Woodlawn Road to the south — has since welcomed Queen Park Social bar and arcade, State of Confusion restaurant, Protagonist Brewery and Rally Pickleball courts.
The name for the neighborhood received some pushback when it debuted, with local media opinion pieces calling it “LoSo: The death of neighborhood names in Charlotte” and “a generic, soulless neighborhood name.”
But the moniker seems here to stay. And the neighborhood’s newest mixed-used development, called The Station at LoSo, is adding even more living, eating, retail and office spaces to the mix.
Checking out growing areas of Charlotte is most enjoyable when you can do it from above, so The Ledger and our friends at video production company The 5 and 2 Project are excited to share the next video in our “Flyover Friday” series. It’s our look at Charlotte’s growth and development up close, using professional drone video.
For expertise in this area and the new 15-acre development, we turned to Claire Shealy of Beacon Partners, to learn more about:
What visitors can expect to find inside The Station at LoSo’s 200,000 s.f., including 350 multifamily units and office and retail spaces with tenants like Skyla Credit Union, People’s Market deli and coffee shop, Taco Boy restaurant, Salata Salad Kitchen and Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee.
LoSo’s proximity to uptown, the Scaleybark light rail station and other entertainment spots in the area.
What’s next for LoSo as it continues to grow and attract young people and families to the area.
How designing office space has changed since the pandemic to attract remote and hybrid workers into the office.
Check out the video:
We hope you enjoy!
Here’s where LoSo sits on a map, by the way:
Related Ledger article:
“A neighborhood seeing (Lo)So much change” (May 5, 2023)
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If you want to catch up on previous seasons of Flyover Friday — with from-the-air looks at other parts of town including Camp North End, University City, SouthPark and Ballantyne — check out our dedicated webpage that houses each episode. The video series is an independent editorial production of The Ledger and The 5 and 2 Project (in other words, we are not a pay-to-play operation).
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