Next Door
SouthPark, from the inside.
The mall, the towers, Symphony Park and Piedmont Row \u2014 and what it means to live on the residential side of it.
An edge city with a lawn
SouthPark is Charlotte's second downtown: roughly six million square feet of office, a regional luxury mall, hotels, medical offices and several hundred restaurants and shops packed into about a square mile. It also has a symphony lawn, tree-lined sidewalks and a mall that spends real money on landscaping, which is why it does not feel like an office park.
SouthPark Mall
The anchor. Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Dillard's and Belk, plus Hermès, Louis Vuitton, Apple, and a long list of national and regional retailers. Its scale, employment base and proximity are central to the way Barclay Downs functions and how buyers evaluate the neighborhood.
Symphony Park
The open lawn behind the mall hosts the Charlotte Symphony's summer series along with seasonal markets and community events. For Barclay Downs residents it functions as the neighborhood's borrowed front yard.
Phillips Place and Piedmont Row
Phillips Place on Fairview Road is an open-air village with shops, restaurants, a cinema and a hotel. Piedmont Row adds office and dining on the western side. Between them and Morrocroft Village, most errands never require a trip beyond a mile.
Living beside it
The trade-off is honest. Sharon Road and Fairview Road carry real traffic, especially at holiday shopping peaks, and the eastern streets hear it. The interior streets do not, and the same proximity that produces the traffic also produces the walkability. Readers weighing a move to the condominium and townhome side of the district can compare it with a SouthPark luxury living guide, which covers the housing directly inside SouthPark rather than the streets beside it.