July 23, 2020
Preserve Mecklenburg has purchased the property at 2515 Booker Avenue in the historically Black Washington Heights neighborhood in west Charlotte. The property includes a “former grocery store, originally known as Jim Patterson’s Grocery, then later as the ‘Little Booker Store'” that is significant to the African-American community.
Read more about the history and potential future of this former grocery store: “Preservationists help save ‘very important component’ of Black history in Charlotte”