WonderWoman

There will be 200 units and more than 1 person living in most units. Even at 1.5 people per unit, that's 300 cars. 3.3 cars per minute would be a lot on such a small street. Keep in mind that 19 houses have driveways that back out onto this street and there are some young kids and a ton of dogs in the neighborhood so more cars increase the chances of an accident. However, my greater concern is still the parking issue. If the parking went away, it would be a nightmare.

There has been some talk from the developer that makes it sound like all of the Lincoln St. parking will be eliminated. At least 10 spots will be gone because of the garage but it is very possible that every spot on the street will be eliminated so that there would be room for all the hundreds of cars who would be traveling that street every day. If Lincoln St. loses all parking, the only place left to park would be Winnifred and that would be shared by people parking there to go to bars, a ton of people who will be going to the new apartment building, and Block residents. Parking would become a disaster.

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but I'm really concerned about this and I don't know who could help me. I'm hoping someone here has some advice! I live at the Block at Church St. and the new luxury apartment building that's being built on Lincoln and Church St. has decided that the entrance to the parking garage is going to be on Lincoln St. For anyone who is familiar with this street, it is currently a private street, quite narrow, and apart from Winnifred St. which fills up with non-Block residents, it is the only street parking available to the residents of this complex for several blocks. Our HOA is responsible for 50% of the road maintenance and the new apartment building management company will be responsible for the other 50%. Our neighborhood has 19 houses worth of people that use Lincoln St. every day. The new apartment complex will have 200 units worth who will use it. I am VERY concerned because #1: we are paying WAY more than our fair share of the road maintenance costs, #2: the entrance on the street will eliminate some and probably all of our street parking, #3: a tiny road will now have a TON of traffic on it. For the driveways by the parking garage, I have a feeling that getting out of the driveway in the morning will be Hell due to all the people trying to leave the garage to go to work. I can picture a lot of accidents by the garage. Do we have any rights? Is it possible to get the entrance flipped 90 degrees so that the entrance is on Church St. (a much larger road that can handle the traffic)? Who would we need to talk to to figure this out? Construction is well under way so we have to do something immediately. I'm really upset about this and I feel like my hands are tied. Basically, if the parking gets eliminated because of this, I'll have to move out of my house (among my roommates, we have four cars so no one would be able to park anywhere reasonably close). Losing all of our street parking will also really hurt our house values. I feel like we were taken advantage of 1 1/2 years ago. We all signed documents allowing the street to be turned into a private street. We were told that this was so we could get parking that the public couldn't use. I think this was a ploy by the developer so that there wouldn't be any obstacles for future building plans. Please help--thanks!!!

Ok, I finally have a concrete answer to what is being built across the street from the Block at Church Street townhomes. As atlrvr posted previously, it will be an apartment complex called 1225 South Church Apartments. It will be two four story, 200 unit apartment buildings. They are aiming for LEED certification on the buildings. Here is an article that was published about it: http://charlotte.bizjournals.com/charlotte...6898000^1732756

One of the sales reps at The Block said the apartment complex originally proposed wasn't happening but she didn't know any more than that. Also, a neighbor of mine found some blueprints or something somewhere that caused him to believe it would either be condos or apartments in the range of 200-250 units with some retail space which differs quite a bit from the original apartment renderings for 1225 Church. A construction worker asked his foreman for me and he told me it would be 200 condos. So, I don't know what to believe at this point! I have no idea who the developer is. Condos wouldn't make much sense to me since there haven't been any announcements or presales before breaking ground. Apartments don't make a whole lot of sense, either, because there are tons of other apartment complexes being built within the immediate area. It's gotta be a park ;-)!

Yes, I am talking about the huge plot of land between Lincoln, Church, and Winnifred and Carson, I believe, is on the North End. The Block is between Lincoln, Church, Winnifred, and Bland, so I can see why there may have been some confusion. I am talking about the land North of The Block at Church Street. It was originally supposed to be an extension of The Block but the The Boulevard Company decided to sell the land to someone else. I have asked everyone, including the construction workers who tore down the trees and warehouses over there, what is going up but I keep hearing different responses. If anyone knows anything, I would love to know what is in fact going up! For right now, though, I have an amazing view of Uptown so I think it would be great if it was something very flat, like a nice big dog park :-).

Does anyone know what is being built on the land between Lincoln, Church, and Winnifred? I saw a post several pages back about 1225 Church apartments being proposed but I think this fell through. Since then, I have heard that it could be 200 condos or 200 apartments and it might have some street level retail. I live at the Block at Church St. so I've been watching them tear everything down on that plot of land for weeks. I'm dying to know what's going across the street from me!