Grant aimed at minority-owned businesses in Charlotte [Video]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Community leaders are seeking solutions for the barriers many minority-owned businesses face in underserved areas. 

The city of Charlotte has chosen three corridors of opportunity to create a strategy that will help close the racial wealth gap and small businesses succeed. Those strategies will be implemented using a $100,000 grant from an organization called Living Cities.

The communities chosen are the Beatties Ford/Rozzelles Ferry, West Boulevard, and West Sugar Creek corridors. 

Starting a business is hard for anyone. J’Tanya Adams, founder of Historic West End Partners, said it’s often even harder for people of color. 

“If my grandmother went through it, my great grandmother or grandfather went through it, those are years that you can’t get back, where others have been able to excel because they …