If you have lived in Concord for more than a few years, you remember when Union Street was a construction zone with plywood over half the storefronts. The finished street reads differently. On a Friday evening in June, the sidewalks between Cabarrus Avenue and Market are the busiest they have been in a generation, and the reason is not one big project. It is roughly fifteen small ones that finally opened at the same time.
This is a guide for the person who already lives here. You do not need a case for Concord. You need to know which door to open on a Saturday afternoon when a friend from Charlotte texts to say they are driving out.
The building that flipped the block
The center of the shift is the old Cabarrus Theater at the corner of Union Street North. It sat closed to the public for almost fifty years. It reopened last fall as
