Conformity

Hope to. Took cap off on our side and stairs are still there (filled with granite chips). Looking closely, you'll note a period decorative light pole which lit that stair originally. Unfortunately, MeckCo removed stair on the other side of street when expanding SWIM MAC pool seating.

An unbelievable project which viability must be informed by no cost basis and capital from every conceivable source. An uncharacteristic move in Charlotte to see so many individuals and organizations working for so long to preserve an historic resource like this. I remember when "CityView" connected to theater. Fat Tuesday's anyone?

Both detention ponds are in. Happy with the velocity of both the site works and the demolition. Credit two of the best: -Blythe Development - DH Griffin

Couldn't agree more. Recall also that role awarded was "master developer". Many others developers will be involved in Brooklyn Village, along with BK Partners, inherently ensuring variety.

The BK Partners relationship is with Mecklenburg County, not the City of Charlotte. No extension has been requested. After winning the RFP, it took until 2018 to negotiate the Agreement with the County. Despite having a signed agreement, BK Partners was still "owed" a few follow on documents related to a deal Spectrum decided not to do on the same property many years back. Residue from the Spectrum deal affected BK Partners path to clean title. Getting that cleaned up involved appearing before City Council and working some things out with other government agencies. That work was all completed near Christmas 2019 (all as reflected on the "Timeline" on the Brooklyn Village website). The BK Partners clock only started ticking then. As an aside, City Council has voted to rename Stonewall "Brooklyn Village Avenue".

We've considered both. Both demo and gut to structure.

This shot RDF posted is taken from McDowell and looks westward into our newly constructed "Second Street". While "newly constructed", all we've done here is place Second Street as it was configured in the 1920's (and as it remained until the '60's when demoed). Today's sweeping curve in MLK Blvd (previously named Second Street) near the NASCAR HOF is a by-product of urban renewal. It is one of the horizontal planning moves that led to the superblock that supports the Ed center and Marshall Park. Our Second Street placement runs directly into the back of the First Baptist. Prior to urban renewal, Second Street continued on a path that would split today's church in half. First Street was also eliminated. Standing on McDowell at MLK Blvd and looking uptown, the First Street intersection was about 75 feet to the left (south). Running through the Aquatic Center parking lot, then closely flanking the Second Ward HS Gymnasium, it ran into uptown parallel to the original Second Street, behind the clock tower hotels, through NASCAR HOF and the Convention Center. Myer's Street is reflected in our Myers Passage (in red on our plan). The gymnasium was pocketed into that hard corner...1st and Myers. You can walk Myers in your mind's eye and perhaps should in the real world. It's ghosts are everywhere. I will post on its importance separately when I am able.

Where Conformity Corp is concerned, Prodev is incorrect in every instance. Anyone following our work for an extended period of time knows this.

Where Conformity Corp is concerned, Prodev is incorrect in every instance. Anyone following our work for an extended period of time knows this.

When the backhoe bucket was sinking into the alter of one 13 churches, most built by the African Americans who attended them, what version of urban planning was that? Sure hindsight is 20/20, but planning or no planning, these were bad choices. One of the many challenges today is how do we "solve" for that history.

Above is an assembly of Sanborn maps reflecting all 5 phases of the Urban Renewal project in Brooklyn. Over 220 acres.

The scope of the Brooklyn taking: ..........Or so I thought. Working to get images to "take".

One would think so.

I am admittedly late on this. With partners, I only the only piece of land not controlled by Charlotte Pipe as you move toward 77 on Morehead. The Dowd Family has owned and operated a melting smelting and casting complex on the back side of 277 (as viewed from Morehead) for over one hundred years. I don't recall anyone working to force them or the 500 so jobs off that land. I can tell that from my perspective the issue is one of planning. In the late 90's and early 2000 the West Morehead Plan was just coming to fruition. I speculated millions there and so have others based on the promise of that plan. Nearly every adjacent property had been converted to MUDD zoning. Investment was happening. The streetscape was completed west of I-77 and more investment came. Now everyone has money in it...public money. Crescent then Frank Martin and George Shield then Beazer Then I think Lane and others got cozy with it for a while, but ultimately CP&F bought it. My investment will ultimately be surrounded by ductile iron pipe storage....so I speculated...and things didn't go my way. I don't fault the Dowd Family for doing what is right for them. I fault the City for caving on this crucial piece of frontage. From the Stadium to 77, the South Side of Morehead will never be developed. Once again the City, while at once claiming to value the intriguing areas that make up that first ring (West Morehead, Dilworth, Elizabeth, Plaza Midwood, Central, etc), makes decisions that shut off any prospects for pedestrian activity along the key connectors leading from uptown to Charlotte's bastions of the real.