Library and the Children's Theater of Charlotte. The library provides services, books, CDs, DVDs and homework support for children and teens. ImaginOn contains the McColl Family Theatre and the Wachovia Playhouse, venues used by the Children's Theater for their performances. Parks, recreation, and culture Parks Romare Bearden Park First Ward Park Fourth Ward Park The Green Marshall Park Entertainment venues Uptown Charlotte has two major league sports venues. Bank of America Stadium, home of the Carolina Panthers and Charlotte FC, opened in 1996; and the Spectrum Center, home of the Charlotte Hornets, opened in 2005; The Charlotte Knights, a minor league baseball team, play at Truist Field. The Charlotte Convention Center attracts over 500,000 people a year to its of exhibit space. The Convention Center is currently undergoing an expansion to add an additional of meeting space and a pedestrian bridge connection to the adjacent Westin hotel. Within recent years, multiple museums have opened in Uptown. The first phase of the Levine Center for the Arts opened in 2010, as part of the then-named Wachovia Cultural Campus. List of museums in Uptown: Bechtler Museum of Modern Art Charlotte-Mecklenburg Fire Education Center and Museum Discovery Place Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture The Light Factory McColl Center for Art + Innovation Mint Museum NASCAR Hall of Fame Museum of Illusions Charlotte Second Ward Alumni House Museum AvidxChange Music Factory Performing arts Blumenthal Performing Arts Center Carolina Theatre Levine Center for the Arts Knight Theater Media The Charlotte Observer has its headquarters in Uptown Charlotte. Transportation Uptown Charlotte is surrounded by Interstate 277, an auxiliary highway which creates the boundaries of the four wards and is the innermost of the city's three ring roads. Interstate 77 also runs parallel to the west of Uptown's third and fourth wards. The Lynx Blue Line runs through Uptown, connecting Uptown to Charlotte's University City to the northeast and Interstate 485 to the southwest via light rail. See also List of tallest buildings in North Carolina / the United States / the world List of tallest buildings in Charlotte, North Carolina Charlotte, North Carolina List of Charlotte neighborhoods References External links Charlotte Center City Living Uptown Charlotte Neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina Economy of Charlotte, North Carolina Central business districts in the United States