It’s been 36 years since the West Boulevard community had a neighborhood grocery store.
On Saturday, the West Boulevard Neighborhood Coalition held a community mixer to celebrate progress in its quest to launch Three Sisters Market, a community-owned grocery cooperative. Read more at QC Metro
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Plans are underway to open a grocery store in an underserved Charlotte community for the first time in 30 years.
The West Boulevard neighborhood is considered a food desert with no reliable access to affordable and nutritious food.
“I do not know if this community understands how unlevel the playing field has been,” said Janiqua Jackson, the general manager of the planned Three Sisters Market.
The Market will be a 12,000 square foot grocery store located at West Boulevard and Clanton Road. Read more at Queen City News
The West Boulevard Neighborhood Coalition’s effort to bring a grocery co-op to a Charlotte community termed a food desert has yet to materialize, and the project is short on funds.
Organizers with the coalition said they started strategizing to fill a void of a grocery store in the community in 2015, to bring the Three Sisters Market to the West Boulevard corridor. The area has been without a full-service grocery store for more than 30 years. But that void has yet to be filled. Read more at WFAE
Jul 7, 2025 — Work on Three Sisters Market, a local initiative to bring a grocery store to Charlotte’s West Boulevard corridor for the first time in three decades, has stalled as backers work to secure additional funding, its executive director said. The project was initially set to be completed last month. But since the West Boulevard Neighborhood Coalition announced the initiative in 2023, the organization has raised only a third of the funds needed to make the project a reality. Read the full article at the Charlotte Observer
Despite numerous setbacks in securing a grocery store, members of the West Boulevard Neighborhood Coalition say the opening of Three Sisters Market, a community-owned food cooperative that is planned for the corner of Romare Bearden Drive and West Boulevard, is now within sight. The co-op is expected to open in 2025. Continuing reading here.
CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 15, 2024 – Atrium Health, in partnership with the YMCA of Greater Charlotte, is bringing convenient access to health care to the West Boulevard corridor of Charlotte at the new Ed Brown Community Center. On March 15, a ribbon-cutting was held for the new medical building, located on the campus of the Stratford Richardson YMCA. The Atrium Health Community Care Primary Care West Boulevard Family Medicine clinic, housed inside the Ed Brown Community Center at 1940 West Blvd., in Charlotte, will open to its first patients on March 18, bringing access to an area of the city that has been historically unserved and underserved.
Edward J. Brown III was a prominent Charlotte business leader and selfless philanthropist who inspired others to make a difference in the community. In addition to leadership roles with Bank of America and Hendrick Automotive, Brown served on multiple civic boards – including 19 years as part of The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority Board of Commissioners, which he chaired from 2013-2021. He challenged Atrium Health to build new care sites in vulnerable communities, a push that led to the clinic concept being implemented at the Stratford Richardson YMCA. Continue reading here…
Our next Sustain Charlotte Social, presented by Truist, will be held Thursday, Oct. 3, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Revolution Park Sports Academy (1225 Remount Road in Charlotte).
Charlotte is a wonderful place to live, but getting around can be a challenge. With the recent news about the Charlotte region’s transportation plan, we are teaming up with Charlotte Area Transit System, Charlotte Regional Transportation Coalition, and the West Boulevard Neighborhood Coalition to brainstorm how we can improve our bus and transportation system.
Join us to talk about all things transit! Our speakers will share more details about a possible transportation tax and ongoing bus initiatives at CATS, followed by an interactive workshop about how to improve specific bus stops and bus routes in the West Boulevard neighborhoods. Come share your thoughts and affect how our bus system serves YOU!
Four new food markets are set to come to Charlotte’s West End.
During this week’s Sarah Stevenson Tuesday Forum on Aug. 6, several organizations discussed their plans to open grocery-centered concepts and community additions.
“It takes a village to address the massive need of food insecurity that’s impacting our community,” Kimberly Scott, Mecklenburg County assistant health director, said during the forum.
Read the full article here.
