The Excelsior Club was once considered the premier Black social club of the Southeast. But since then, it has fallen into disrepair. Now, a developer wants to revitalize the Washington Heights ...

The Excelsior Club in Charlotte’s historic Washington Heights welcomed Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, and James Brown. But now the club is in disrepair and plans to save it are back at square one.

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The Excelsior Club, a two-story white home on 921 Beatties Ford Road in west Charlotte, became the city’s first exclusive Black nightclub in the mid-1940s. Through the years, Excelsior evolved into ...

Darius Anderson has big plans for the Excelsior Club. Convert the historic west Charlotte spot back to a music venue. Build a boutique hotel there and have a restaurant on site. But one major ...

A local development team wants to spend $7.8 million to resurrect the historic Excelsior Club as a museum-restaurant that is a near replica of the shuttered 1944 venue. Why it matters: The restoration ...

A local developer is working to revive The Excelsior Club — the historic, longtime center of nightlife for Charlotte’s Black community. But to do that, he said, he’ll need to tear down the club’s ...