Private. Central.
Walk or bike to nearly everything.
A quiet dead-end street tucked against the greenway — with Montford restaurants, Park Road Shopping Center, two Harris Teeters, Freedom Park, and Uptown all reachable on foot or by trail. The pool and clubhouse are steps from your door. The city is minutes away.
Walk out. Key in. You're on the trail.
Franciscan Terrace has a private, keyed entry and exit directly onto the Little Sugar Creek Greenway — resident access only. Not a public access point. Not a parking lot trailhead. You walk out your building door, use your key, and you're on the trail.
The greenway is paved and runs for miles in both directions, connecting to Freedom Park, Uptown Charlotte, and the broader Mecklenburg County trail network. Whether you run, cycle, walk the dog, or just want a 20-minute break between calls — the trail is always there, and it takes about 30 seconds to reach it.
This kind of access is genuinely rare in Charlotte. Most communities that advertise "near the greenway" mean there's a public trailhead within driving distance. At Franciscan Terrace, the trail is your backyard.
Two Harris Teeters.
Both within walking distance.
The nearest Harris Teeter is a 13-minute walk. The second is 18 minutes. Montford restaurants are walkable. Freedom Park is a short bike ride down the trail. In Charlotte — where driving is usually assumed — this kind of daily range on foot or two wheels is genuinely rare.
The walkability here isn't a marketing claim — it's a practical reality that residents notice quickly. Groceries, dinner out, a morning run, a Saturday bike ride to Freedom Park — it all starts from your front door. For people who value that kind of daily range, Franciscan Terrace punches well above its price point.
Dinner out. Saturday morning.
Both walkable.
Montford — Charlotte's best walkable dining and nightlife corridor — is right outside the door. And so is Park Road Shopping Center: a genuine mid-century landmark that opened in 1955 and still anchors the 28209 neighborhood with independent shops, local character, and architecture that actually has a point of view.
Park Road Shopping Center isn't a strip mall. It's one of Charlotte's oldest shopping centers — the kind of place that has real bookstores, specialty grocers, and neighborhood institutions that have been there for decades. The mid-century bones fit the neighborhood. It's a Saturday morning destination, not an errand to dread.
Montford for dinner on a Wednesday. Park Road on a Saturday morning. Neither requires getting in a car.
Established. Quiet. In the middle of everything.
Hedgemore Dr is a quiet dead end with no through traffic. It feels like a residential backstreet. It is also minutes from I-77, I-277, South End, Dilworth, Myers Park, and Uptown Charlotte.
The 28209 zip code sits at the intersection of some of Charlotte's most established neighborhoods — Myers Park to the south, Dilworth to the northeast, South End a short drive up the road. Franciscan Terrace gets you into that corridor at a condo price point, with the greenway as a bonus that most of those properties don't have.
The community itself was established in 1969 — originally built as apartments, converted to condominiums in the early 1980s. The mature landscaping, brick buildings, and 7.5-acre footprint reflect that. This is not a new development trying to build a community culture from scratch.
Gigabit internet.
A trail out the back door.
Both Google Fiber and Spectrum are available to residents — you're not limited to one provider. For anyone working remotely, that combination of fast infrastructure and a quiet no-through-traffic street makes Franciscan Terrace an unusually good WFH setup for Charlotte.
The greenway access adds something harder to quantify: a real mid-day break option. A 20-minute walk on the trail and back resets the day in a way a coffee run to the parking lot doesn't. Residents who work from home consistently mention the trail as one of the things they didn't expect to value as much as they do.
Selwyn. Alexander Graham. Myers Park.
Franciscan Terrace is served by three highly regarded Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools — all within approximately one mile of the community.
Attendance boundaries can change. Verify current assignments at cms.k12.nc.us or with a local real estate agent.
See the condos for yourself.
126 condos across 7 buildings — pool, clubhouse, private greenway access, and a location that actually lets you walk and bike to daily life.