The first phase of Charlotte’s mixed-use medical district just outside uptown, The Pearl, opened in July. It includes a campus of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, a surgical training center, and medical technology companies.
But it’s what The Pearl doesn’t include that has some city and county leaders wanting answers. When Atrium Health asked for $75 million in public money for the district in 2021, they promised affordable housing. So far, that housing has not been built.
Michelle Crouch wrote about it for the Charlotte Ledger and N.C Health News. She joined WFAE’s Marshall Terry…