A chorus of speakers on Tuesday urged Mecklenburg County commissioners to use their limited leverage to ensure Atrium Health delivers on the affordable housing it promised when it won $75M in taxpayer funding for its medical innovation district, The Pearl.
“I want to talk to you about the broken promises at The Pearl, a place with a history of broken promises,” said Angelia James, a west Charlotte resident. “Where is the affordable housing?”
In 2021, when it asked for public money, Atrium said it would set aside 5 percent of housing on site for low-income residents, donate a separate 14-acre site on North Tryon Street to the city’s housing authority and partner with the agency to build more than 400 units there…