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Stores, restaurants, and local businesses help define neighborhoods, create an identity and allow residents to flourish. In Charlotte’s Corridors of Opportunity, developers are transforming strip malls, warehouses and vacant spaces and trying to gauge what will draw people and turn a profit. The hope is to cultivate more local economic opportunities while supporting longtime businesses.