Football's back, and Panthers training camp has quietly become a Charlotte ritual — free, open to fans, and held uptown instead of Spartanburg for the third straight summer. We look at what that shift says about the city, set against a historic sports stretch: next week, Messi and the MLS All-Star Game come to town. Plus: the growth-vs-neighborhoods housing fight, the new transit tax, and a hook worth staying for — Charlotte Restaurant Week starts Friday.

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Sources this episode: Carolina Panthers, Axios Charlotte, WBTV, and public records.

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