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Matthews pursues co‑located elementary, Discovery Place kids museum and downtown park via land swap with CMS
Summary
Town staff and Charlotte‑Mecklenburg Schools are negotiating a land‑swap and memorandum of understanding to co‑locate a new Matthews Elementary School and a Discovery Place kids museum on the same site; the town proposes creating a new signature downtown park on the school’s existing frontage, funded partly with tourism dollars.
Town leaders described a multi‑party plan on April 28 to rebuild Matthews Elementary on its current footprint, co‑locate a Discovery Place kids museum under a shared roof and convert the school’s Trade Street frontage into a new downtown park.
Town Manager Becky Hawk told the Board of Commissioners that the town has acquired three parcels near the school and has discussed a land swap with Charlotte‑Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) that would give CMS a surplus relief‑site parcel at McKee and Pleasant Plains in exchange for the town gaining the school frontage along South Trade. The town would use the combined frontage and the adjacent parcels it owns to build a larger signature downtown park that could replace or supplement Stumptown Park.
The co‑location concept is intended to…
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