To improve safety, CATS is evicting all stores and restaurants from the main bus station uptown

The Charlotte Area Transit System plans to terminate the leases of the six stores and restaurants inside the main bus station uptown — a change the transit system says will make the station safer.

The station on Trade Street — known as the Charlotte Transportation Center — has been a crime hotspot for years, including a fatal shooting last month.

Interim CATS CEO Brent Cagle said that within 90 days the transit system plans to end the leases of all vendors, which includes a Burger King. They won’t be replaced…

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