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Is the wetlands at the corner of Park and Gleneagles finally going to get developed?
https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2023/08/29/harris-land-co-site.html
An infamously high-profile property in south Charlotte looks like it’s in play again for the first time in at least five years. Local real estate firm First & Early Partners has posted a 90-second social media video touting “Quail Hollow Village,” a 19-acre site bounded by Sharon, Gleneagles, and Park Roads.
The site is one that’s been sitting vacant for 20 years as one of Charlotte’s most prominent couples — Cameron and Dee-Dee Harris — and their Harris Land Co. has tried repeatedly to attract mixed-use projects without success.
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A couple of interesting write-ups on the property valuation of local private country clubs - many decreased in value!
https://gregjarrell.substack.com/p/whats-a-country-club-worth
Quail Hollow club valued at just under $10 million and categorized as an 'average type private course'.
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16 hours ago, InSouthPark said:
Well for one, Axios/Charlotte Agenda is just paid advertisements for new "awesome" restaurants. Every popular blogger that wants free food and drinks writes the same glowing *review*. When is the last time you saw far reaching social media say ANYTHING negative about a new restaurant/bar/concept? Everything is just sunshine and rainbows because that is what pays the bills and what they are paid to write.
The places that are truly good should get the press. Gone are the days when Purvis from the Charlotte Observer was the main restaurant critic we had easy access to and gave a place it's due, or criticized it.
Charlotte Magazine addressed this demise a few years ago. I recall one of the shills tweeting a response defending using her iPhone to take photos vs taking notes like an oulde - completely not addressing the real issues called out in the article: that the food was free, the review was at a promotional event, and her publication was likely paid by the restaurant.
https://www.charlottemagazine.com/the-case-for-food-criticism-in-charlotte/
Schwab tells me she was free to choose whom, when, and how she would review restaurants, and that she operated under a strict ethical code: She paid for all her meals, usually under an assumed name (her dog, Charlee, was one of her aliases), and visited a restaurant at least twice and with at least one other person before she wrote about it. She would never review a restaurant that hadn’t been open for at least three months. If chefs sent free food to her table, she would ask them to stop and add the dishes to her bill.
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23 hours ago, Temeteron said:
**Greek owned places in Charlotte that have closed:
Athens Diner (was next to CPCC)
Greek Isles
Zack’s
Nolen Kitchen
Knife and Fork
Mantis Restaurant
Mr. K’s
Uncle Jim’s
Chris’ Deli
Crown Point Restaurant
Acropolis (was a supermarket off Central)
**Greek owned places that are still around:
Kiki Bistro (my favorite)
Soul Gastrolounge
Ilios Noche
Ilios Crafted
Big View Diner
Vibe Cafe and Wine Bar
Mocco Bistro
Mad Greek
Little Village Grill
Estia’s Kouzina
Landmark Diner
Stacks Kitchen (amazing NJ style Greek diner)
Skyland
French Quarter
Greco’s Steak & Hoagie
Greco’s Fresh Grill
Open Kitchen
South 21
Sunrise
521 BBQ Tega Cay
House of Pizza
Empire Pizza
Gus’ Sir Beef
Captain Steve’s
Captain Galley’s
Captain Cap
Agora Greek market
Minos Foods Greek Market
These are only a handful. There are so many others I just can’t think of right now.
Cosmos was also Greek owned.
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article52119685.html
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Four more businesses evicted from the EpiCentre in Charlotte
Looks like Vault, the movie theater, Grabbagreen, and one other business are out. Shifting to office is going to be tough with the remote work trend that companies may be sticking with long term.
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2021 Nascar Schedule shows the All Star Race in Texas https://www.nascar.com/nascar-cup-series/2021/schedule/ Was it back in the early 2000's when there were city and state campaigns to keep this event in Charlotte? Now it is hardly noticed...how the mighty have fallen.
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On 9/8/2020 at 9:38 AM, InSouthPark said:One of the biggest allures of Wegmans is the huge size and huge selection. While an urban store would probably do fine, it's not what people are expecting with the full size stores and I couldn't see any scenario where an urban one would be built in CLT area in the next 10 years. They would need to get their foot in the door with a giant one in Ballantyne first and expand to some select areas from there. It's always been a suburban store. If they couldn't snag one in the Colony redevelopment, I can't see one north of Fairview for quite a while (not counting U-City).
What about the hole in the ground at Park & Gleneagles?
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Any plans of cleaning up the area beyond resurfacing Woodlawn? Or will market forces take care of it over time?
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On 6/6/2020 at 1:16 PM, CLT> said:
Expense Accounts.
Yep...from Del Frisco's SEC filing https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1415301/000141530118000030/dfrg-20171226x10k.htm Its a "safe" choice if you are taking a large group of customers out. The people who go on Fri/Sat and spend their own money boggle the mind though.
We believe the majority of our weekday revenues in our Del Frisco’s Double Eagle and Sullivan’s concepts are derived from business customers using expense accounts, and our business therefore may be affected by reduced expense account or other business-related dining by our business clientele. If business clientele were to dine less frequently at our restaurants, our business and results of operations would be adversely affected as a result of a reduction in customer traffic or average revenues per customer.
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Another benefit to removing this is it would remove the deathtrap merge from 4th on to 277 where you are fighting against the speeding thru traffic that is trying to merge over to Independence.
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12 hours ago, Jt282506 said:
Upstream closed
Their fall Oysterfest was epic...
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14 hours ago, Tyree Ricardo said:
My opinion on this is you don’t just put things on
your website, with no PR, if it’s actually happening. There’s no marketing behind it at all, so... there ya go. Something will happen eventually, momentum is moving this direction.
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45 minutes ago, gman430 said:
BMW and Boeing being two of them here in SC.
For those two wouldn't that mean shutting down the assembly line vs "working from home"?
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2 hours ago, urbanlover568 said:
If cases don't go down next week, would not be surprised to see Martial Law and the same measures Spain, Italy, and China implemented.
A month of that will do a number on a lot of businesses.
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On 11/23/2019 at 4:52 PM, thenewkage95 said:
Metal detectors, increased police patrol, armed security, as well as better surveillance is all that is necessary.
That will do wonders for attracting clientele
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https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article237668974.html
17 incidents involving guns since 2017 - not sure how they turn this around.
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Another shooting @ the Epicentre - this time police were involved.
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article237393094.html#storylink=mainstage_lead
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3 hours ago, TheOneRJ said:
Apparently the shot came from an altercation in the Epicentre. Shocker.
Place is going to go the route of Underground Atlanta if stuff like this keeps up.
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1 hour ago, tarhoosier said:
How soon will EpiCenter(re) be replaced with tower?
Jacksonville Landing was recently purchased by the city to be demolished. It struggled for 31 years.
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1 hour ago, CarolinaDaydreamin said:
Same market applies. This time you just keep refreshing the app instead of walking around dealing with sketchy street scalpers.
The City of Charlotte isn't taking a 30% cut for transacting the deal on their sidewalks. Ticketmaster and Stubhub take that for using their ticket exchange. I would argue that changes the market. If I'm looking to sell my tickets for 'face' then I need to mark them up in order to break even.
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What if someone has an old phone w/o NFC?
I'm all for using technology to weed out fraud and make it easier to buy/sell tickets. But the15%-20% cut on each side of the transaction that they typically take is absurd.
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1 hour ago, SgtCampsalot said:
I know at least two panthers players (practice team) who live in an apartment in Uptown for the specific purpose of not owning a car and still being able to afford it at their salary (which is only paid out during the season). There's gonna have to be some kind of shuttle or something.
Wonder what the guys in Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, NE, etc all do with their practice facilities way out of downtown? Think those owner pay for shuttles?
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7 hours ago, Hushpuppy321 said:
Would've been nice if they had considered moving this to either the Eastland Site or River District. SC could stay involved in the team by Tepper renewing their Summer Camp Practice Contract at Wofford College.
The facility will be too nice NOT to use it for summer camp as well. Other teams who have invested heavily in practice facilities have stopped traveling away to training camp.
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4 hours ago, navigator319 said:
Lowes to hire 2000 software engineers. Don't get to excited yet... sounds like some will go out West BUT here's to hopping CLT gets some.
Ellison, when questioned by analysts about where the new software engineers will be based, responds that those details haven’t yet been determined. He noted that Lowe’s has offices on the West Coast that could presumably house some of those new employees.
Did they ask him how many would be in India?
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Wegman's coming to Ballantyne.
https://www.wbtv.com/2024/04/15/wegmans-is-coming-charlotte/