NORTHSIDE

4/11/2018 11:14pm

The Jackson Center has built community for years in Northside and Pine Knolls neighborhoods

By Rebecca Ayers

The Marian Cheek Jackson Center is a non-profit dedicated to building community in Chapel Hill's Northside and Pine Knolls neighborhoods. The organization has worked alongside UNC students since its beginning and UNC recently gave the organization a $3 million loan to continue its work in the community.  “I remember growing up with neighbors that knew each other, sharing joys and sorrows, knowing who lived around you, which brought safety because you knew who your neighbors were,” said Kathy Atwater, the center’s community advocacy specialist. “The Jackson Center has become a part of the community, not just someone outside looking in." 

1/14/2018 7:56pm

What it was like to be a Black student in Chapel Hill 60 years ago

By Maria Elena Vizcaino

 David Mason Jr. recalls walking every morning in the muddy, unpaved streets of the Northside neighborhood to attend class at Orange County Training School.  

4/13/2017 12:04am

Student renters and long-term residents in Northside are adjusting

By Lauren Talley and Samantha Scott

The Northside neighborhood in Chapel Hill is an unusual blend of long-time residents and student renters cycling in and out with the school year.

4/6/2017 1:27am

Competition for housing helps drive Chapel Hill rent up to highest in state

By Sarah Cheek

Chapel Hill rent prices are rising — in February, the town saw a 6 percent jump in rent, according to a recent report on rental markets around the country.

3/20/2017 9:52pm

Longtime Northside resident Marian Cheek Jackson remembered for a life of friendship

By Kaia Findlay

Marian Cheek Jackson never met a stranger. The lifelong Chapel Hill resident, 92, who died on March 4, was known to call the community center named after her in Northside to make sure someone was checking up on her neighbors. 

2/1/2017 1:51am

Northside expected to receive affordable housing as part of Habitat for Humanity partnership

By Doug Dubrowski

The Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership and Habitat for Humanity of Orange County are working together in the coming months to construct affordable housing in the Northside neighborhood.

1/23/2017 9:06pm

Meeting held between town of Chapel Hill residents to discuss West Rosemary development

By Meghana Srikrishna

Construction may seem to be coming to a close on Rosemary Street, but a whole lot more is just beginning.

9/29/2016 9:41pm

Northside Neighborhood Initiative celebrates success of its first year

By Sally Bitar

Since its launch in March 2015, the Northside Neighborhood Initiative has worked to improve affordable housing options in the neighborhood, among other objectives.

2/25/2016 11:09pm

A year out, Northside Neighborhood Initiative is making strides

By Brooke Fisher

Northside has seen its share of gentrification in the past 30 years.

10/29/2015 12:55am

Northside open house brings up new proposed regulation

By John Foulkes

James Pendergraft and his family have lived in the historic Chapel Hill Northside neighborhood his entire life. He claims he is descended from a slave of Joseph Caldwell, the first president of UNC.

9/27/2015 9:18pm

Habitat for Humanity brushes four families with kindness in Northside

By Isabella Lupoli

“If I can do my duties as a good man ought, if I can bring back beauty to a world up wrought, if I can spread love’s message that the master taught, then my living shall not be in vain,” sang Prince Taylor, owner of a freshly painted house.