Construction of the long-awaited medical school near uptown Charlotte is officially underway. The Queen City is the nation’s largest city without a four-year medical school. The first shovels of dirt were turned on Jan. 18 at a ceremony near the intersection of Baxter and South McDowell streets, commemorating groundbreaking on Wake Forest University School of Medicine Charlotte and the surrounding innovation district, known as “The Pearl.”
The school of medicine will anchor the Howard R.…
