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BROOKLYN, RETURNED Can developers honor historic black neighborhood’s past as they build its future? BY JOHN SHORT PHOTOGRAPHS BY JONATHAN COOPER
THE SMELL OF OLD WOOD and creaking sanctuary floorboards tip you off to the age of the Grace AME Zion Church on South Brevard Street in Second Ward. It’s one of the oldest black churches in Charlotte, dedicated in 1902 after a $2,000 fundraising campaign by the founding congregation. Next door, at 229 South Brevard, stands one of the oldest commercial structures in the city, the Mecklenburg Investment Company Building, completed in 1922. Continued on next page JUNE 2020 // CHARLOTTE
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