Jacqueline Stowe has seen big promises come and go.

The 76-year-old grew up in Brooklyn, a thriving Black community just outside uptown Charlotte that in the 1960s was bulldozed for urban renewal. City leaders told residents they would rebuild and that families like hers could come back.

That never happened.

Now, decades later, Stowe fears that another promise tied to the same land — a vow to create affordable housing — could be broken too.

In 2021, Atrium Health unveiled an ambitious plan to build the city’s first four-year medical school on the Brooklyn land, along with an accompanying research and technology campus that aimed to make Charlotte a center for medical innovation.

To make it happen, Atrium said it needed $75 million in taxpayer money to pay for infrastructure such as ro

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