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it is a really great addition to the skyline and lovely that it isnt tan or dark glass.

you arent really in tune with pursuit's mentality are you?

the city does no maintenance on the property. it is taken care of by pursuit (not that theres much at all). the police tower is nice though huh?

articles like this are ridiculous and are not helping the banking situation. Bank of America is not going into the luxury hotel business... eh whatever... whats the point in arguing with the article anyways?

different entity

am i the only one not so excited about levine is planning? in one of the few spaces to make a lively street retail scene or retail district we are going to get 280,000 sqft of retail only... Its not bad, but its not great either. the land has so much potential

the problem with getting a loan is that banks dont want to give small loans that are less profitable to development companies like the pursuit group when they can instead give a larger loan to someone else. As lending gets tighter, less banks are willing to fund a smaller project like encore. For clarification, I am not a pursuit group employee. Also for clarification, liquid was set to be designing several other white water centers around the country. I can see why they have stalled to, but it is unfair to lay the blame on the pursuit group solely.

if you dont know what your talking about, stop slandering a good company... everyone is struggling at this point and it has been a rocky year, but the pursuit group is far from verna and to clarify liquid had significant work beyond the pursuit group

wow the more music venues in downtown the better. sounds good

www.graceonbrevard.com the church is open. Has been for a couple weeks. Its absolutely awesome. The pursuit group is incredibly busy and right now getting financing is extremely tough, encore was close, but has regressed a bit. It is not gone and will be built. remember this company is something like 10 people, but has 6-7 various projects happening

I like it, but in order to make it part of urban life, it has to something to draw more people there. Sure the trees are pretty and a big open lawn a nice concept to lay out and read a book, but how about something like a small playground? A small dog walking specific area? Something that makes the downsides of living in downtown be a bit better, and makes it more usable on a daily basis. I dont really want to see another "the green"

God so would i... having a great, walkable midrise neighborhood would be incredible... anywhere from 3-8 floors with living retail in the bottom, those kinds of neighborhoods can exemplify urbanism at its best. But this is charlotte, and we paved over the neighborhoods that had potential to become that type of area long ago the vue is cool, but really on a grandscale not all that interesting or unique compared to density... so basically ive full circled back to monsoons point, but for charlotte today, I will still take it, and i do not see the future in the creation of neighborhoods that we are talking about.

that can definitely be true and I know you dont want to debate this here but I will just say, in a city like charlotte towers are not built to fill the entire lot in the same way that they are in say the lower east side... so either way the "urban fabric" is patchy in Charlotte whether or not the building is 8 stories or 50, even our most dense street, tryon, has plazas and lots of open space, but thats the business district so its a bit different

skyscrapers remove people from the city? I dont see the difference in going up 50 floors versus three, once your up your in your home and off the city street anyway... as far as the whole sustainability thing, I think you are overly optimistic if you actually think US home buying choices and building will SIGNIFICANTLY change in two years. There are always going to be little very green communities, but overall people love to live in excess. Now, I think slight changes will be made, green is selling so developers will do it, but not enough to make projects like this unprofitable.

let me know when you can live in charlotte without a car... as far as the green comment, i laughed...

time... just give it some time.

I kinda laugh at stuff like this... not many on this website seem to understand its more difficult then allotting a space and saying, retail, come here. no mainstream retailers are willing to make the jump to uptown, especially not now, even at very attractive offers.

hmm I am fascinated by the boulevard plan. I think the key to actually getting something like this out of the concept phase is a serious developer approaching the city with a plan, something like copley place in boston or maybe the time warner center in NYC to anchor down one of the parcels, followed with strict zoning restrictions for full street friendly retail... something that will generate tax $$ and high property values on that land opened up. If it takes Trump to do it, I would welcome him here. It could be an awesome anchoring retail area for uptown finally, and if the brevard st plan holds together, we could end up with a nice pedestrian area sometime in the distant future...

this has been talked about and tried several times. Its not as easy as offering space at a good price. youd actually be surprised at how hard it is to get any mainstream retail tenants into uptown, and thus, they have yet to arrive.

I laughed when I read the article this morning. The people posing the photo looked like they were about to be kicked out onto the street and their dog killed, rather then losing their view in a luxury condo. This is a joke. There is no legally binding height restriction. Development happens. My father once told me, before you buy on a view, always know what can rise in front of it. There were never any real restrictions, just guidelines, which mean nothing. Build it, I love the idea of a decent urban corridor flowing into downtown.

The more I see it, the more I realize, I really do like the look of this building, it is a modern addition to the city that breaks away from our tryon st. obsession.

I've heard, and this may mean squat, that this will not be happening. Kind of disappointing, but Charlotte will be just fine.

I heard about this. A large company in downtown was offered naming rights on a new office building on N. Tryon by a developer directly. I dont know whether they got further in talks about this, I will do some digging.

creating more density outside the loop will be awesome and hopefully help stretch the city, I am looking forward to hearing more about this project

I know a little bit. And count on this one happening.