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I hope you're right. When I look at the staging video and blueprints, the ticket lobby doesn't appear to get that much larger, as the ticket counters and queuing areas for TSA all get moved forward (towards the roadway). The area around the Queens Court on the ticketing level seems to be especially tight.

The entire project was bad from the beginning. Giant parking garage, sloppy architecture, and poorly integrated into its surroundings. It's the Dallas North Tollway in 1984.

Vasu Raja, an Indian-American and Chief Revenue Officer of American Airlines, disagrees.

The Centurion Lounge has showers...

Raleigh has a real train station. We have an Amtrak hut.

I disagree, but everyone has their opinions... The building has been value engineered and that's never good for architecture. But hooray, we have another bland skyscraper.

I emailed them and got this response: Thanks for your note and your feedback. I won’t argue with the fact that the CLT C Club is ready for an update, and there is a lot that we have in the works for CLT overall as it relates to the Club experience: Early next year, we will actually be closing the C Club in order to perform some regulatory updates as well as make cosmetic updates to the restrooms, carpet, paint, and some furnishings We are working on a medium term proposal to update the club further, but given the extent of work required, it will likely be a 2023/24 program Over the longer term, we are working with the CLT airport to determine a solution that would allow us to expand the Admirals Club footprint significantly, but this will take time as it’s part of a larger terminal redevelopment project

Best I can tell, it’s going to look a bit disappointing.

Why a max on residential? It's next to a freeway and four blocks from a LRT and a future multi-modal station.

AA has miffed me again. The C & D Admiral's Club hasn't been remodeled since America West and US Airways merged (and even then it was just some new furniture), not to mention the fact the club is too far from the E gates to use. When I emailed the airline pre-pandemic to enquire about both, I got the same old story that "real estate is difficult to come by at CLT." Fast forward to last week when AA announced it will build a completely new 10,000 square foot club at AUS Bergstrom (as in creating new square footage that doesn't currently exist in the airport). Meanwhile at the airline's second busiest hub, we can't even get Coke machines in the C/D Club (something every other lounge in the network has had for a decade). I'm dumping the membership.

The top still sucks. And someone needs to hit the dim button a few times on the Ally logo. It’s so bright it’s illegible.

Not a fan of the current building. It was piecemealed together, anyway. The Tryon facade is what's left of the 1956 iteration--it was stripped of its modernist attributes and got a good dose of what I call the "UNC Charlotte Treatment": brick it up and go PoMo/faux classicism. The end result being a poorly integrated interior for library users and a clumsy exterior. Give me Seattle or Minneapolis designs any day of the week over the current schlock. By the way, here's the previous incarnation:

Nothing says "technology hub" quite like above ground utilities.

RE: Price's High rises don't have to worry about coin shortages.

Only trouble is, my grandmother and great aunts (born here) always called it uptown. Even rode the original streetcar from Dilworth UP there.

So......are the utilities going underground, or will this look like Tryon in front of the Railyard?

Yes. It's one of the main reasons there are still concessionaires that remain closed (Pret a Manger, Starbucks at B security, Shake Shack, etc).

I just wish they'd get back to remodeling what we already have. C, D, and E are still in need. C got new flooring (poorly poured and finished terrazzo) and ceilings, but everything has stopped. D and E still have old seating, carpeting and wayfinding.

Central and Pecan will still be a terrible setback CVS.

We once had one (current Cinnabon space). Sad.

Logo being applied to the stadium side this morning.

Does anyone know when the D and E remodel will begin? Both still have the old carpet, way finding, and seating.

I think 530' is the floor height. The architectural height is easily 60-70 feet more. For comparison, the newest renderings from Duke provide context, as DEC and Duke Plaza are directly across from one another.

They would certainly be enough to power the architectural lighting and give the appearance that the building has an actual roof. As I said before, the top without the solar array is just angled glass panels with an elevator box in the middle.

I hope that never happens (naming). He made a deal with the devil during the General Assembly's attempt at stealing the airport from the City of Charlotte (his employer).