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The economics of opening a neighborhood coffee shop really demand that you serve more people than what can reasonably walk to the place in a neighborhood such as First Ward. And when the weather is bad, business is bad thus there has to be some parking for the place to survive.
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Just a few months ago... I sat down with a group of investors to talk about that site and how I thought that a new neighborhood winebar/food service business would work in the site...They loved the idea but questioned the site...
We didn't proceed further because of 2 things:
1-Parking was a nightmare and there were not enough residents to make up for it
2-size of space... we needed more room to work
We've sinced started looking at other places uptown as well as in Huntersville and North Charlotte.
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The polk building might have been one of those old buildings to try to save to renovate if they hadn't uglified the west side of it, and hadn't tried to kill off all the pedestrians trying to reach gateway.
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Its a shame to get ride of this old building... True it is ugly now... but it does have potiental to change...
they should use some imagination and redo the building for lofts and retial on the ground level. It just needs to be cleadned up a little and they can get the lot next to it for parking.
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Wow, that is pretty neat. What made them move the Pinnacle to the other location and change the name?
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I just watched the video on the web site... WOW!
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Is this Wachovia building that was talked about in the first post here, the same building they are building off of south tryon that is about 35 stories tall or is the building talked about that is over 80?
I agree with monsoon, we need something (other than a shiney new expensive arena) to bring people from around the world. DT charlotte has very few tourist.
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I would personally love to see almost like a mini central park theme... based off of NYC. I nice size park with plenty of trees, a pond, lots of walk ways and open spaces to sit or to play with your dog, and mid and high rises around it, with street level retail.
That would be a development that would pay off... both for the city and who ever was to own it.
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i would hate to see the hall house building go. its the only older, red brick highrise left on tryon. it used to be a hotel too, i believe. i wonder if BofA will go the transamerica route or highrise for its space. Transamerica has what, 400,000 ft of office and only 10 floors high.
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I agree ... I would hate to see that building go too... It addes a little age to our almost all post modern skyline. It would be nice to see it get a upgrade to accumidate better middle class housing in downtown. BofA can all's go around it too... Building around it would also be a wonderful addon to our skyline. I nice older building surrounded by a park... midrises... and office towers... sounds quite nice to me. Who knows if it will happen though. ... Here's to wishful thinking
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Who wants to make a bet that the latest Levine study will be just like the 10 previous ones?
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Has any of his studies ever filtered into reality?
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There really are two landowners for roughly 16 blocks of land southeast of N. Tryon St. and northeast of E 6th St. : Levine Properties (Daniel Levine) of Family Dollar wealth, and Mecklenburg County. Meck is slowly moving its services out of
its Hal Marshall Center on their land to their newly acquired Freedom Mall complex. Originally, the county had a competition for acquiring their land, and Levine had been in the running to combine it with their land for a massive project.
Here was Levine's proposal: http://www.coopercarry.com/CaseStudies/00T...tteQuarter.html
The county chose another developer Palladium, which later dropped the project when the economy fizzled in 2001/2002. Levine, who already owned most the neighboring land, and had spent money on his proposal to be interested, but his time table shifted to mollasses speed.
When the arena came to First Ward, Levine started talking like his plans will come to fruition sooner. The centerpiece of Levine's plans have always been his park (called "The Quarter" in the plans). To build the park, he has consistently sought city funds for an underground parking deck. He supposed that the arena would bring the funds for parking. Time has passed, and there are still no announcements about parking funds, so the land continues to sit idle (except for parking lots, and a few old buildings such as Dixies Tavern).
Word on this forum is that Levine is redrawing his plans, using ULI, and is possibly on the verge of making something happen. It is 100% definite that Levine will do SOMETHING with his land EVENTUALLY. When he makes a deal for the parking deck, it will likely be the spark to develop the park and some surrounding projects. He will likely continue to develop his land methodically and slowly, in order to make maximum use and advantage.
I personally (with no inside knowledge at all) think he will get funds for parking, and build his park within the next 3 years. I think he will build an initial phase of a shopping district along the park (he called it Market St. in his proposal a few years ago) within 5 years. The rest of his land, and the county's land will likely take another decade or two to be majority developed. There may, however, be some interim uses other that parking lots, that would be cheap to put up and raze.
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Wow... Thanks for the info dubone... I really hope this comes into reality. I just looked at the website you provided and it would be a great continuation of downtown and would benefit all who live, work, shop, or play there. I'm keeping my fingures crossed it will happen.
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Has anyone heard anything about a so called "Tryon urban village" in Center City. I've read about the thought but haven't heard anything other than the name.
Any Updates?
Charlotte Greenways and Trails
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I think this is a great idea... What a great way to show off our history. I for one would walk/jog the trail and admire the statues. I hope it gets done.
I think the uptown portion of the greenway will get alot of traffic and I am sure that once it is done... Residential will follow it all the way around uptown.
I like this project