The Collective operates out of three historic buildings dating back to 1886 that were home to many “firsts” in Charlotte’s black community, including the first building financed, designed and built by black leaders exclusively for black professionals. The buildings are among the few to survive the 1960’s program of “urban renewal” that displaced nearly all of Uptown Charlotte’s Brooklyn Neighborhood.

The Brooklyn Collective seeks to advance the city of Charlotte’s social, political, and economic communities, just as the founders of these buildings and institutions did over a century ago.