The Village
The definitive local guide to the Cotswold Village shopping center — Publix, REI, Marshalls, HomeGoods and every anchor, with current hours, free parking tips, and the shops around it.
Cotswold Village, at Randolph Road and Sharon Amity, is the shopping center the neighborhood is named for — home to Publix, REI, Marshalls, HomeGoods, Ulta Beauty, and dozens more stores, all with free surface parking. This directory covers every anchor, current store hours, and the smaller centers around it, with SouthPark's regional mall ten minutes south.
The Village covers grocery, general merchandise, pharmacy, banking, dry cleaning, fitness, shipping, salons, and a dozen food options. For a household, that is the complete routine list. Most Charlotte neighborhoods borrow their conveniences from somewhere else; Cotswold's sit at its middle — the reason residents describe the neighborhood in minutes rather than miles, and a reason the surrounding residential streets held their value through every cycle since the 1960s.
Cotswold Village is a suburban-format open-air shopping center: a set of anchor boxes and outparcel buildings arranged around surface parking, with vehicular access from both Randolph and Sharon Amity. It is not a pedestrian main street and does not pretend to be. What it is instead is complete — the errands that most Charlotte households spread across three trips happen here in one.
The Village opened in the mid-century era as an open-air neighborhood center, and it has been through significant reinvestment cycles since — reconfigured layouts, replaced anchors, new outparcels, and updated facades. That willingness of capital to keep returning is the quiet reason Cotswold never went through the decline that hit some comparable first-ring commercial nodes in the 1980s and 1990s.
It also means the tenant roster changes. Treat this page as a description of the center's role, lineup, and character rather than a live directory; confirm any specific store or restaurant before making the trip. If you spot something out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
Honestly: it depends on your street. Homes on the blocks immediately off Randolph and Sharon Amity can and do walk for coffee, groceries, and dinner. Farther into the neighborhood the walk becomes a fifteen-to-twenty-five minute proposition, and sidewalk continuity is inconsistent — some blocks have full coverage, others have none. If walkability is a purchase criterion, walk the specific route from the specific house before you write an offer; it is the most reliable due diligence available and it costs twenty minutes.
The neighborhood's second shopping landmark is Cotswold Marketplace — a multi-vendor hall of independent antique, vintage, and design dealers that draws shoppers from across Charlotte and anchors the slower, browsing half of local retail.
The center's current anchors cover the categories households use most, with store hours generally running standard retail schedules — roughly 9 or 10 a.m. to 8 or 9 p.m., earlier for the grocery, shorter on Sundays; confirm individual store hours before a late trip. Parking is the neighborhood's quiet advantage: free surface lots wrap the center, so even a Saturday grocery run rarely involves circling. Tenant lineups at any center change over time — treat this as a snapshot and check the center's current directory for the latest.
Grocery
The full-line Publix at Cotswold Village sits at the center of the redevelopment and serves as the main weekly shop for most Cotswold households. Full bakery and deli counters (the Pub Sub has its own local following), a butcher and seafood case, a large produce department, sushi and prepared-foods stations, and a floral department. The in-store pharmacy handles prescriptions, flu shots, and immunizations with evening and weekend hours, and online ordering with curbside pickup and delivery covers the households that skip the aisle trip.
Off-price apparel & home
The Marshalls at Cotswold Village carries women's, men's, and kids' clothing, shoes and accessories, activewear, luggage, and a rotating home section. New shipments land several times a week, so regulars treat it as a browse-often stop rather than a planned errand.
Home furnishings
The HomeGoods at Cotswold Village offers off-price furniture, decor, kitchenware, bedding and bath, rugs, lighting, and seasonal goods beside Marshalls. The pairing of the two stores makes the Village a genuine home-outfitting stop — useful in a neighborhood where renovation and rebuild projects are constant.
Outdoor gear
The REI at Cotswold Village is the regional co-op's Charlotte store — camping and hiking gear, cycling, climbing, paddling, running, and snow-sports departments. The full-service bike shop handles repairs, tune-ups, and professional bike fittings; there's ski and snowboard tuning in season, gear rentals, and a program of classes and local outings that gives the store a following well beyond Cotswold.
Pharmacy
Prescriptions and convenience retail on the corner of the center — full pharmacy with drive-thru pickup, immunizations and flu shots, photo services, and the everyday health, beauty, and household aisles that cover the gap between grocery runs.
Beauty
Full-line beauty retail — cosmetics, skincare, fragrance, and haircare across drugstore and prestige brands, plus an in-store salon for hair, brow, and skin services. One of the center's most consistent draws beyond the grocery trip.
Pet supplies & services
Food, supplies, and gear for dogs, cats, fish, birds, and small animals, plus grooming, training classes, and boarding-adjacent services. In a neighborhood full of dogs on the greenway, it functions as a weekly stop for many households.
Personal care & home fragrance
Soaps, lotions, candles, and home fragrance — the standard gift-and-restock stop that rounds out the center's personal-care layer alongside the salons and Walgreens.
Grocery
The Harris Teeter on the Cotswold corridor is the neighborhood's second full-line supermarket, minutes from the Village — fresh departments, a large prepared-foods and sushi program, a pharmacy, and online ordering with ExpressLane pickup. Many Cotswold households split the weekly shop between here and Publix depending on the list.
Around the anchors, the Village carries fitness studios, banks, salons, and a strip of restaurants facing Randolph Road — several of which appear on the Cotswold restaurants page.
Typical operating hours for the center's anchors, so a trip can be planned without a dozen phone calls. Individual stores adjust for holidays and seasons — confirm on the store's own page before a late or holiday run.
| Store | Typical hours | Good to know |
|---|---|---|
| Publix | 7 a.m. – 10 p.m. daily | Pharmacy typically 9 a.m. – 9 p.m. weekdays, shorter weekends |
| Harris Teeter | 6 a.m. – 11 p.m. daily | Pharmacy and fuel center keep their own schedules |
| Walgreens | 8 a.m. – 10 p.m. daily | Pharmacy window shorter than the front store |
| REI | 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. Mon–Sat, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. Sun | Bike shop and rentals follow store hours |
| Marshalls | 9:30 a.m. – 9:30 p.m. Mon–Sat, 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. Sun | Extended holiday hours in season |
| HomeGoods | 9:30 a.m. – 9:30 p.m. Mon–Sat, 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. Sun | Matches Marshalls next door |
| Ulta Beauty | 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. Mon–Sat, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. Sun | Salon appointments may start before opening |
| PetSmart | 9 a.m. – 9 p.m. Mon–Sat, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. Sun | Grooming salon hours differ from retail |
| Bath & Body Works | 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. Mon–Sat, 12 – 6 p.m. Sun | Extended hours during holiday seasons |
A structured look at what the Village holds beyond its five anchors, organized the way errands actually get run. Smaller tenants turn over from time to time, so treat the category list as the durable guide and confirm individual storefronts on the center's current directory.
Publix (grocery, bakery, deli, pharmacy) and Walgreens (pharmacy, photo, convenience) cover the weekly essentials — the two most-visited storefronts in the center. Harris Teeter, minutes away on the corridor, is the neighborhood's second full-line grocery.
Marshalls and HomeGoods handle off-price clothing and home furnishings; REI covers outdoor gear, bike service, and rentals. Together they make the Village a legitimate home-outfitting and gear stop, not just an errand run.
Bank branches and ATMs sit inside the center, handling the deposit-and-errand stops that pair naturally with the grocery run.
Ulta Beauty and Bath & Body Works anchor the beauty retail, with fitness studios, salons, and barbershops rounding out the personal-care layer — the appointments that anchor a Saturday morning at the Village.
PetSmart covers food, supplies, grooming, and training — a weekly stop for the neighborhood's many dog-owning households.
A strip of restaurants and coffee spots faces Randolph Road, mixing counter-service lunches with sit-down options — see the Cotswold restaurants page for named picks.
Smaller storefronts rotate through gifts, wine, pet supplies, shipping, and seasonal tenants; this layer changes most often, so check the center directory for what's current.
The quick-scan version of the directory — the anchors by name, and the smaller storefronts and services by what they do. Use it to check whether the Village covers an errand before you drive over.
Almost every errand inside the neighborhood happens at one of a handful of centers along the two arterials. Knowing them by name makes local directions far easier to follow.
Randolph Road at Sharon Amity
The anchor center that gave the neighborhood its name, redeveloped in stages from its mid-century original. Grocery, general merchandise, pharmacy, outdoor gear, banking, fitness, and a run of restaurants — see the anchor lineup below.
Monroe Road corridor
A workaday Monroe Road center on Cotswold's northeastern edge, known locally for independent tenants, service businesses, and international grocery rather than national retail. Tenant mixes on this corridor change; check current listings before making a trip.
Between Randolph and Monroe
The second layer of everyday convenience after the Village itself: smaller multi-tenant buildings carrying dry cleaners, salons and barbershops, veterinary and medical offices, insurance and financial services, hardware-adjacent trades, and neighborhood restaurants. Breakdown below.
≈10 minutes south
The regional destination: a full mall with luxury and national anchors plus surrounding boutique and dining retail, reachable down Sharon Amity or Wendover without living beside the traffic it generates.
Sharon Amity carries the neighborhood's second tier of retail between Randolph and Monroe — and understanding what each layer holds is the difference between knowing Cotswold and just driving through it.
Dry cleaners, nail and hair salons, barbershops, shipping counters, banks and credit-union branches — the errands between the big weekly shop.
Dental and medical offices, veterinary clinics, optometrists, and physical therapy practices line the corridor between Randolph and Monroe.
Independent restaurants and counter-service spots that draw from Cotswold, Stonehaven, and the apartments along Sharon Amity — see the restaurants page for named picks.
The character shifts toward independents: international grocery, Latin American bakeries and taquerias, auto services, and family-run businesses that have held the corridor for years.
The Village has a rhythm, and timing a trip to it is the difference between a twenty-minute errand and an hour. These are the patterns regulars plan around:
The quietest window of the week. Publix and Harris Teeter are freshly stocked, the parking rows nearest the anchors are wide open, and Marshalls and HomeGoods have overnight shipments on the floor before the weekend browsers arrive. If a trip involves several stores, this is when to do it.
The restaurant strip facing Randolph Road fills with the office and remote-work crowd. Counter-service lines peak around noon; going at 11:15 or after 1:30 cuts the wait considerably. Retail stays manageable throughout.
The commute-hour grocery rush. Publix and the Walgreens drive-thru are at their busiest, and the Randolph/Sharon Amity intersection runs heavy. After 7:30 p.m. the center empties quickly — late-evening grocery runs are remarkably easy.
Saturday late morning is the Village's peak: grocery, retail, salon appointments, and restaurant brunch all land at once, and the anchor lots fill. Early birds get the same stores with a fraction of the traffic; late afternoon is the second-easiest window. Sunday afternoons run busy but calmer than Saturday, with shorter store hours to plan around.
From mid-November through Christmas, weekday mornings remain the reliable window and weekends at the anchors are genuinely crowded. Extended holiday hours help — the last hour before close is often the calmest of the day.
The Village is built around free surface parking — lots wrap the storefronts rather than sitting in a single garage, so most stores have dedicated rows within a short walk. Grocery shoppers tend to use the Publix and Harris Teeter front lots; retail and salon visitors fill the rows closest to Randolph Road and the interior drives. During peak Saturday mornings and pre-holiday weekends, the lots closest to the anchors fill first, but overflow spaces along Sharon Amity and the outer perimeter usually stay available. There is no paid parking gate; access is open from both Randolph Road and Sharon Amity, with the easiest entries near the Publix and Walgreens corners.
Retail activity at the Village spikes around back-to-school, Halloween, and the winter holiday season, when anchors like Marshalls, HomeGoods, Bath & Body Works, and PetSmart extend hours and rotate seasonal inventory. REI runs pre-summer bike-shop clinics and fall ski-and-snow tuning promotions. Publix and Harris Teeter both stock holiday meal kits and expanded prepared-foods sections. Many stores adjust hours for Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, and Easter, with pharmacies and in-store salons sometimes closing ahead of the front store. Confirm current seasonal hours and event schedules directly with each store before making a special trip.
Sharon Amity and Monroe Road carry additional strip retail, independents, service businesses, and — on the Monroe side — international grocery and Latin American bakeries that most Charlotte neighborhoods have to drive across town for. This is one of the quiet advantages of Cotswold's northeastern edge.
SouthPark is the Carolinas' premier retail district: a full regional mall with luxury and national anchors, plus surrounding boutique, dining, and service retail. From most Cotswold addresses it is a short run down Sharon Amity or Wendover, which effectively gives the neighborhood a second, much larger retail center without any of the traffic that comes with living beside one.
Charlotte's design trade resources cluster toward South End and the Design District — tile, stone, plumbing showrooms, lighting, appliances, and to-the-trade fabric and furnishing sources. Most of the good ones are fifteen minutes from Cotswold. Several operate on trade accounts only, which is one practical reason renovating homeowners engage a designer earlier than they planned to.
Seasonal markets operate across Charlotte, including options within a short drive of Cotswold, with the regional state farmers market to the southwest. Schedules are seasonal and change year to year; check current listings before planning a Saturday around one.
This site is independent editorial and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or representing Cotswold Village, its ownership, or any tenant. Names are used for identification and commentary only.
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The neighborhood's commercial heart at Randolph and Sharon Amity — grocery, big-box anchors, services, and a dozen restaurants.
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The center anchors around a full-service grocery plus national soft-goods and home retailers, pharmacy, banking, fitness, and a rotating set of service tenants such as salons, dry cleaning, and medical offices. Tenant rosters change, so check the center's current directory before making a trip for a specific store.
Source: Charlotte Regional Business AllianceSouthPark Mall is about ten minutes away for department stores and luxury retail, Park Road Shopping Center draws residents for specialty food and local boutiques, and Monroe Road carries a growing line of independent shops, breweries, and design showrooms.
Source: Mecklenburg County Park & RecreationYes — the Monroe Road and Central Avenue corridors have accumulated a cluster of antique dealers, upholstery workrooms, tile and stone suppliers, and lighting showrooms, and the Design Center of the Carolinas sits a short drive toward Uptown. Many trade showrooms require a designer to write orders.
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