Community Profiles
Victoria Brown, Va’a Tuilesu, Silvia Robinson,
ETH/316
July 15, 2013
Ted Haas

Community Profiles
Victoria Brown
The Sharon Lakes community is an urban community located in the middle of two other communities within the city of Charlotte, North Carolina. Sharon Lakes is an urban environment with many cultures, languages, backgrounds, and history to offer its residents. The residents of the Sharon Lakes community are mostly Hispanic, African American, Caucasian, Asian, and a number of other nationalities mixed in. Each resident offers numerous amounts of diversity and flair to the Sharon Lakes community.
Markets, Laundry Centers, Community centers, and Public events are meeting places for the Sharon Lakes community. Sharon Lakes community holds regular festivities to bring community members together. Several summer cook-outs, festivals, and a recent community revitalization project have been successful in building relationships within the community. Residents in this community work as Manufacturing and Laborers, Sales, and Service Workers, some Executive, managerial, professional, and some Clerical, assistants, and technical support (Neighborhood Scout, n.d.). The blend of working class and professional jobs residents hold in the community give Sharon Lakes a unique flair that proven successful in creating the family like environment the community has grown accustomed to.
In Sharon lakes the community gives back what is put into it. Members of the community are like a large family, each with a responsibility to watch over other members, keep the community clean, crime free, and to report any suspicious activities. The community has started a revitalization program that holds each resident accountable for their surroundings. Bi-Laws put into place makes residents responsible the property they live in and those surroundings it.