MVA hosted State of Charlotte with Michael Smith
MVA’s Young Professionals group hosted Charlotte Center City Partners President and CEO, Michael Smith for a seminar luncheon on February 12. The seminar discussed the current state of Charlotte and the outlook for 2020. Charlotte Center City Partners is an organization that envisions and carries out strategies to improve the economic, social and cultural development of Charlotte’s center city.
Since 2005, Smith has led Center City Partners, which collaborates with government, other nonprofits, and the private sector in Uptown, South End, and Midtown. Over the last couple decades, Charlotte’s urban core has been transformed into a major destination, thriving neighborhood and growing employment center, and recently closed out its most prolific decade of growth in history.