It will significantly improve connections between Amtrak and local transit the current station is served by a single bus line. It will be the southern terminus of Amtrak's Carolinian and Piedmont lines, as well as a service stop on Amtrak's Crescent and a major stop on the planned Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor. The station was built with a streetcar platform, which provides connection to the CityLynx Gold Line, and a 1,100 ft (340 m) long, fully ADA compliant high-level platform, the second in the state behind Raleigh Union Station, for Amtrak service. The first test run of a Piedmont train using the station occurred on November 29, 2022. The station's inter-city tracks and platform were completed in November 2022. On August 30, 2021, the streetcar station was opened as part of the second phase of the CityLynx Gold Line. In 2015, NCDOT won a $25 Million TIGER Grant, to help start construction of Gateway Station. On November 1, 2012, NCDOT selected Houston-based developer, the Hines Group, for the project. In 2012, NCDOT completed property acquisition again of approximately 18-acre (73,000 m 2) for the Charlotte Gateway Station project. In that same year, an Environmental impact assessment was completed that resulted in a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) and the City of Charlotte and NCDOT signed a municipal agreement. In 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 awarded $520 million grant for the Piedmont Improvement Project in North Carolina which was used to make rail improvements identified in the 2002 feasibility study. As originally presented, the station would feature an underground station for CATS buses, a 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m 2) office building, and soaring lobby for other rail and bus services in the building's atrium. Īnnounced publicly in August 2005, the proposed Gateway Station is envisioned to serve as both a multimodal transit center in addition to both office and retail space. By 2004, NCDOT had completed property acquisition of 27-acre (110,000 m 2). The study identified two possible options: The Preferred Alternative, which included the station, various track work and a greenway at $206.8 million (2002 dollars), and the Station Build Only Alternative at $109.6 million (2002 dollars). In 2002, NCDOT completed its feasibility study for the Charlotte Multi-Modal Station and Area Track Improvements. In 1998, NCDOT began the acquisition of property for the station and supportive land uses (i.e. The site chosen along West Trade Street, currently a Greyhound station since 1973, was once the location of three previous stations: the Atlanta & Charlotte Depot (prior to 1886), the Richmond and Danville Depot (1886-1905) and the Southern Depot (1905-1962). In 1991, the City of Charlotte and the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) completed a preliminary feasibility study for a new Uptown rail station to replace the existing Amtrak station, built in 1962 by the Southern Railway and located on North Tryon Street near the rail yard for SOU's successor, Norfolk Southern.
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Estimated at a cost of $800.1 million (2017 US dollars) for full implementation of all public and private components, the project will be built in three phases, with Amtrak service tentatively scheduled to start in 2024. The district will also include parking facilities, mixed-use development and an elevated greenway.
Currently operating as a streetcar stop for the CityLynx Gold Line, it is the centerpiece of the overall 19-acre (7.7 ha) Station District, and it will serve Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) bus lines, the Lynx Silver Line light rail, Amtrak intercity trains and Greyhound Lines intercity buses.
Charlotte Gateway Station is a future intermodal transit station in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.
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