CHARLOTTE — Charlotte Center City Partners, UNC Charlotte, and real estate developer Daniel Levine are in the early stages of building interest to create and nurture a technology hub along North Tryon Street near the university’s uptown campus. The first public discussion of the idea began last week as part of Center City Partners’ quarterly board meeting.
Michael Smith, Center City Partners president and CEO, said the informal coalition who have discussed the concept plan to start an advisory committee in January. The committee will likely include Levine as well as representatives from the university and others in the public and private sectors. It will likely have 12 to 15 members.
Smith envisions the committee presiding over a long-term, multi-phased effort. The effort began with a two-day trip in June to the eight-block Tech Square district anchored by Georgia Tech in midtown Atlanta, a collection of hubs and incubators that includes start-ups as well as representation by larger companies including Home Depot Inc., Chick-fil-A and the Boeing Co., among others.
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