Charlotte did not build new buildings for its food halls. It put them in the two largest industrial relics it had left.
Camp North End is seventy-six acres north of Uptown. Albert Kahn designed it as a Ford assembly plant in 1924. It became an Army Quartermaster Depot in the Second World War, and then in 1956 the Charlotte Area Missile Plant, which is where the name comes from. Eckerd used it as a distribution centre from 1967. Redevelopment started in 2017 and the kitchens moved into the bays.
Eat there at Soul Miner's Garden, the site's all-vegan kitchen, Blasian Asian Way, La Caseta, Eggroll Co and Gravity Sourdough. Free Range The Bar, Bar Fly, Room Service and Halal Street Food are in the same cluster of buildings.
Optimist Hall is a converted cotton mill in Optimist Park, holding more than twenty kitchens under one roof plus Noble Smoke's counter. Birdsong is across the street on North Davidson.
Both sites lost tenants in 2025: Billy Sunday and Marina's Tapas at Optimist Hall, Noche Bruta and Wentworth & Fenn at Camp North End. A food hall tenant list is one of the fastest-rotting things on the internet, which is why we check them rather than copy them.