Wall Street of the South Braces for Hurricane Florence
- In Charlotte, untrammeled growth may put city in danger
- A place defined by creeks, hills and towers for its banks
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Charlotte built everything it needed to become banking capital of the South: gleaming office towers on a hill surrounded by parking lots, freeways and the assorted concrete markers of rapid development.
Hurricane Florence and its floods may reveal the cost of the North Carolina city’s rush to build.