DMann

It would seem to me that many of the older buildings, 50+ years, would probably need significant upgrading to meet any of the current needs for office space. Buildings are not made to last forever, just a projected period of time. Certainly reuse is an attractive option but when the dirt cost escalates to a number that is unsustainable for many retail operations, reuse goes the way of dial phones, telegraphs, etc. Large retailers have models they use for opening new stores. Unique and boutique type spaced usually do not fit their models. If'n you owned a 6 story 50 year old building and the city was telling you that you had to provide X amount of parking spaces, and need to upgrade your elevators / sprinklers / electrical etc on the one hand and a developer telling you that he will take the responsibility for the building off your hands at a tidy profit, what would you do?

The Foul Pole is being installed in Right Field! Yipee!

You just couldn't REESEsist saying that, could you?

She probably realizes that in addition to "water balloons" we also have ballots.

Anyone hearing anything about the piece of land on the Northwest corner of Euclid and E. Morehead? This is a spot near Royal Court that was to have been developed about 6 years ago.

I think the site in question is the parking deck. I saw a Reebok sign in the window across from the Residence Inn.

Looks like the spaceship from Independence Day

Congrat's, those are nice units.

MLS has about 83 listings and between The Madison and SKYE there are about 45 unlisted units available.

Who didn't see that coming?

The hotel will be on the corner of Fourth and Graham, and the office building will be on the corner of Fourth and Mint. For those baseball minded people, read Left field, and Left Center field.

The parking lot on the corner of Third and Tryon is screaming for a signature development. I can't wait to see what goes there.

You are right sir!

Hard to believe that with all the talent we have here that no one knows something!

Yikes!

Soooo....this Foxx announcement is kinda like the pope quitting. Something doesn't feel right about this. Foxx saying that he has accomplished all he set out to do seems like reconstructive history. No CIP, potentially losing the airport, not able to get consensus with a 7 - 2 majority on city council, brick wall on the streetcar, those things hardly sound like accomplishments.

Maybe Jerry Orr will run!

230 units, 4 stories = about 60 units per floor, right.

Beat me to it Kermit, apples and oranges.

Interesting on page 27 it shows a street between the stadium grounds and the proposed hotel/office complex.

Go HERE for an interesting look at the value of homes near transit stops.

A bit off topic perhaps, but HERE is a story about Cleveland wanting to build "Skyways" and accompanying reports of cities that have them. Baltimore is apparently taking theirs down, as is Cincinnati. Seems like planners generally feel it kills street level activity. Duh!

Oh please don't tell me we will lose yet another surface parking lot!

Streetcar networks were not abandoned for lack of use, it was a combination of the auto companys and oil companys giving subsidies to cities for busses, and the sprawl of suburban development in the 50's and 60's. Density was not something that was coveted, and density is a requirement for streetcars.

It is a shame we do not have a view from the back side. It seems to me all units will be city view facing with hallways on the back side. If that is the case, it is a great use of the space. I believe there will be an eventual removal of the Blake Hotel, maybe over the next 5 years. I can see that block becoming a series of high rise buildings of Avenue type construction. That is probably more a hope than anything else, but it would be cool as the Second Ward develops.