Gateway Station is a proposed multimodal transit center for Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina. When completed, it will serve the CityLynx Gold Line, CATS Silver Line, Amtrak, Greyhound intercity buses, and local Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) buses. It is also preliminary identified to serve the proposed LYNX Red Line and LYNX Silver Line. It is to be constructed by the North Carolina Department of Transportation, and financed by state, federal government, Amtrak, Greyhound, CATS, and private developers. It is tentatively planned to be opened in 2024.HistoryIn 1991 the city of Charlotte announced the proposed site along West Trade Street as the preferred location for a replacement facility for the existing Amtrak station along North Tryon Street. The North Carolina Department of Transportation began the acquisition of property for Gateway Station in 1998, with the 27acre acquisition complete by February 2004.Announced publicly in August 2005, the proposed Gateway Station is envisioned to serve as both a multimodal transit center in addition to both office and retail space. Costing an estimated $100 million to complete, this is now the site of the Charlotte Greyhound bus terminal and was the previous location of the Southern Railway train station until 1962 when it was demolished. As originally presented, the station will feature an underground station for CATS buses, a 100000sqft office building, and soaring lobby for other rail and bus services in the building's atrium.
