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Elizabeth/Chantilly
 The Elizabeth neighborhood is a charming community located to the East of the Center City which found its earliest beginnings in 1891. The mature tree lined streets and the pedestrian convenience of restaurants and parks make the Elizabeth Community a commonly sought-after lifestyle. Historic houses dating back to the early 1900s also attract many people to who appreciate architecture and desire established well-located communities.The Elizabeth neighborhood received its name from a small Lutheran women’s college that was founded in 1897 on the site that is now Presbyterian Hospital. The college was called Elizabeth College and was funded by Gerard Snowden Watts who earned his money in the tobacco industry in Durham, NC. Although the college was well outside of the city limits, the college quickly made the neighboring community one of the most fashionable places to live outside of the city. The college operated on the original location until its relocation to Salem, VA in 1915. The main building of Elizabeth College was demolished in 1980 although it served as a hospital facility for many years. Today, Presbyterian Hospital serves the community on this site and has resulted in the development of various other medical services in the area from specialist in medicine to general practitioners.  A sign of the neighborhood’s quick rise to fashion was the arrival of the street trolley in 1902. Until Myers Park came around, Elizabeth was the premier neighborhood in the area. With easy access to transportation into the city, the neighborhood quickly became home to the city’s wealthiest business men. It is said that many of the residents of Myers Park first lived in Elizabeth. The neighborhood is rich in history as home to many important community leaders such as William Henry Belk, founder of the Belk Department Stores. Most of the earliest houses were built on Elizabeth Avenue as an extension of the affluent East Trade St. Nearly all of the houses on Elizabeth Avenue have been replaced with commercial buildings as modernization efforts attempt to provide new services to the community. These ongoing efforts include the work of Grubb Properties who is working to bring a Fresh Market as well as a movie theatre and apartments to the site, adjacent to Presbyterian Hospital, which formerly held old run-down commercial buildings. Among their efforts is the drive to bring an electric streetcar service to the neighborhood again as an acknowledgement to the history of the neighborhood.  The neighborhood was annexed into the city in 1907 and shortly thereafter, Independence Park opened up as the first public park in the city. The park was designed by John Nolen, who later fashioned Myers Park. Before being converted into the park that exists today, the site was home to a series of lakes created by the damming of a spring-fed stream. Common to both Myers Park and Independence Park is the use of stacked stones in the creation of walk-ways, structures, and seating areas. The park stands today as a central component of the neighborhood offering recreational space to enjoy. Residents of the community also enjoy the walk-ability of the neighborhood and the access to popular neighborhood restaurants which include Crisp, Hawthorne’s Pizza, Customshop, Carpe Diem and Jackalope Jack’s. The best and only local creamery in Charlotte, Elizabeth Creamery makes ice cream fresh daily.The current boundaries of the Elizabeth neighborhood are, roughly, Randolph Road/4th Street to the Southwest; Independence Boulevard to the West and North; and a creek to the East. The average house in Elizabeth sells for $575k with historical houses pushing the $1M range.
Chantilly  Elizabeth is bordered by a small but popular neighborhood called Chantilly, which is jokingly referred to as "Little Elizabeth". Chantilly was a vibrant and active community with the same look and feel as neighboring communities Midwood and Elizabeth until Independence Blvd was constructed in the 1947. When Independence Blvd was built, it took a large chunk of the neighborhood with it. The neighborhood slowly declined until the late 1990s when the urban resurgence began. Today, Chantilly is a popular Uptown neighborhood with large tree-canopied streets but with smaller homes than Elizabeth. While the neighborhood is still small, it has grown dramatically in popularity over the last 5 years. The neighborhood is bound by Independence Blvd and the railroad tracks, so growth of the neighborhood is geographically constrained. A large percentage of the houses in Chantilly have been renovated, rebuilt, or added onto with an average price of a home in Chantilly being around $350k with larger homes ranging around $500k.
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