Three Black-owned small businesses at Northlake Mall told The Charlotte Observer that they and other locally-owned shops have been pushed out recently by new ownership of the financially-struggling north Charlotte complex.
Just last year, the mall’s prior owner turned to those same locally-owned businesses, many of which were owned by Black entrepreneurs, to fill vacancies at Northlake.
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