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Ok, so more than likely BS. I had not heard of this rumor, so I seriously doubted it. Not that I am super well connected, but I assumed a Publix in NoDa/Plaza area would make huge waves on this forum.
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On 4/1/2020 at 1:59 PM, CLT2014 said:
They have 22 stores in the Charlotte market and rank 4th in market share after Food Lion.
Stores in South End, Cotswold, Rock Hill, Indian Land, Whitehall Commons, Lake Wylie, Huntersville, Gastonia, Propserity VIllage, Mint Hill, Harrisburg, Matthews, Indian Trail, et... most of their stores are in suburban areas that have newer strip mall developments that they could get into and didn't already have Harris Teeter as a tenant.
I heard a rumor that Publix is looking at taking over the location of the Food Lion on the Plaza at Matheson. I have no idea how good this source is, so I thought I would check in here. Any accuracy to this rumor?
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Does anyone know what they have been doing on the Little Sugar Greenway just south of Morehead? See picture below. It looks like some form of infrastructure work. I walk by it everyday, so I am curious about it.
Also, now that Atrium's expansion is approved, do we have any final details on the renovations to the greenway between East and Morehead?
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2 hours ago, Hushpuppy321 said:
Anyone know when The Hawk will open for leasing?
They are already taking reservations for units. They have been for a few months.
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I will share this link here. While I think it is a long shot, I think removing the Belk Freeway and replacing it with the silver line underground would be ideal. If you read the article below,
PortlandOakland is looking to do a similar multi-modal underground above ground combo and add to it affordable housing and mixed use development. I am not sure how wide the freeway is, but it seams like a light rail line can fit in there potentially with some vehicle lanes and development over the top.@JacksonH This article also have a link to the Congress of New Urbanism's Freeways without Futures list. That list contains a list of "Graduated Campaigns," including Seattle's removal of the Alaskan Way Viaduct. That route was replaced with a tunnel that opened one month after the viaduct closed. During that one month period, there was not traffic disaster, so people have drawn the conclusion that the tunnel was a waste of money. Presumably, some research was completed to see if people just avoided that area of the city until the tunnel opened, but I do not have that info.
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On 2/7/2020 at 9:47 AM, AP3 said:Wish it was a little taller
Wish it was a baller...
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20 hours ago, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:
There are 4-5 unnamed hotels in South End it could be.
Have we given up hope on this being a Kimpton given the Spectrum connection.
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I will be around on the 24th but I am out of town the weekend of the 22-23.
Anyone else?
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Sorry guys, I was at the bottom of the Grand Canyon with my feet in the Colorado River drinking a Lenny Boy Ground Up Coffee Stout. Any change we can get a mid-Feb meet up? Or maybe a quarterly thing and do April?
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18 hours ago, Scribe said:
First, these are simply inaccurate statements.
Looking from economic impact point of view, roads allow for the most diverse set of uses.
- Emergency services (would you like your EMT's relying on public transport)
- All goods based businesses.
- All time critical businesses.
- On location service based industries.
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Roads are the single method of transport that allows the gov't to spend only on half of the infrastructure (just the road - not the vehicle) everything else requires both.
- they offload the capex, opex and insurance for all private cars on the user.
Can you provide the same services with just light rail and bus service?
In a growing metro like Charlotte, you need a good balance of different modes of transport. There are some on this forum (not limited to @kermit ) that are anti-road to the point that they are blinded to all other economic factors that are in play.
I think you misinterpreted my statement, and I do not think any of your points demonstrate an inaccuracy in my statements. I completely agree with the points you are making. Roads are cheaper, period (particularly if we use cleaner fuels). However, the cost of using a road is more than simply the cost of building a road. For example, we subsidizing parking costs by requiring too many parking spaces to be built. The cost to build those parking spaces increases the cost of rent, which results effectively in a tax on people. If we did not subsidize parking, then parking would be more expensive. This would likely result in an increased demand from suburban residents for mass transit. This would keep those cars off the road, which in turn would allow the essential services and other road dependent services to use the existing infrastructure without expansion. We simply need to be aware of the total cost of using both types of transit when comparing which to build. See below for a plethora of studies that explain the costs and impacts of parking on a city. These are direct costs of road use.
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/11/20/the-many-costs-of-too-much-parking
https://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/parking-spacescommunity-places
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They should turn it into apartments.
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We can all discuss our own preferences of transit options, but thanks to the beautiful diversity of this country (and forum), we will never have consensus. In my opinion, I would much rather see these conversations (particularly at the policy creation level as opposed to dinner conversations) focus on the subsidies provided to the various options. Currently, there are numerous subsidies in zoning ordinances and tax expenditures that greatly benefit cars. This disguises the true public cost of driving. This makes obtaining public funding for other sources of transit (bike lanes, designated bus lanes, and light and commuter rail) seem relatively more expensive. If we compared the cost of the Silver Line, or even the entire transit "Big Bang," to the actual cost of providing cheap roads and parking, then the differences would not be nearly as great. Currently, the general public sees roads as free and mass transit as extremely expensive. This is simply not an accurate comparison.
This argument is really applicable to many other urbanist concepts as well, such as urban vs. suburban living. Using broad based taxpayer fund to widen roads serving suburbs is a redistribution of wealth from urban areas suburban areas. It also misconstrues the costs of living in a less dense area. Toll roads tax the use of the roads. Therefore, they are a more fair tax and not a redistribution of wealth. If suburban and rural residents paid the true costs of living in those areas, there may be less desire to live there.
Note, I am not saying urban is always better than suburban/rural. I am sure there are other costs that urbanites do not feel that suburban residents do. My point is that we should focus on the true costs of each policy when comparing them, and individual preferences should be secondary in the policy discussion.
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21 hours ago, InSouthPark said:
They have cleared all the trees at the greenway for the extension just north of Tyvola in the past week. They really took out a lot of trees on both side of the creek so it looks way different there now.
Pics or it didn't happen! Thanks!
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I guess its an electronic board...
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A video board would already have been approved in their plans, correct? Particularly if they already started building it. I don't think it is a video board.
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#1 Levine Parking Deck stays empty.
#2 Levine parking Deck Blocked Lane remains blocked.
#3 Charlotte gets a new brewery.
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9 minutes ago, KJHburg said:
Brookfield has already started a redevelopment at North Point Mall in Alpharetta. They are tearing down the vacant Sears and put outside restaurants along with an apartment complex. It will be way too late for Brookfield to wait until a big maybe LYNX is extended that way. They need to start this redevelopment maybe with that in mind but starting the North Point Mall treatment. I have been to both malls and North Point is slightly better but struggling due to a nearby outside mixed used development called Avalon (like Waverly but much bigger) This area has great demographics as does Carolina Place.
from the ATL Biz Journal
""A planned 30-acre redevelopment of Alpharetta’s North Point Mall would add apartments, retail space and a new outdoor plaza. Mall owner Brookfield Property Partners L.P submitted new renderings to Alpharetta officials of the project that would remake North Point’s former Sears department store. Brookfield last year acquired General Growth Properties Inc. The images show a striking new entrance to the mall, dubbed “The Point” in renderings. They also show a large greenspace with a water feature. The project would add 300 residential units in three buildings and 24,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space in three buildings. Drive-through restaurants are discouraged, according to the city’s staff report, suggesting officials want the new project to be pedestrian friendly. Rooftops and outdoor dining are encouraged. Other features of the plan include a new multi-use path along North Point Circle, which wraps around the mall.""
If I speak to them again, I will ask about their time frame to start improvements. However, my expectation is that they will not do much until something is decided on the light rail. As I understand it, the blue line could stop at the mall exactly or be several miles away from it. Those create two very different results for the mall. Without the rail to spur the new life, I am not sure they will want to reposition it as a retail center in the face of some other nearby centers (Ballantyne, Tanger, etc.). After all, the mall is dying in part due to location and competition. Without the light rail, an entirely new purpose for the land may be the best use. I will probably talk to those guys in a few weeks, so I will let you know what they say if this comes up.
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12 hours ago, Dale said:
Ron Rivera a goner ?
Yes, and more importantly so are Eric Washington, Norv Turner, and Kyle Allen.
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12 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:I’ve always thought that Carolina Place was kind of a dump. I’d like to see it replaced with a huge Birkdale-style complex with retail, apartments, hotels, and some new schools.
The redevelopment of Carolina Place mall will come sooner than most probably expect. However, a lot of it will hinge on the blue line extension. Brookfield recently (18 months ago?) took GGP private again. They believe that numerous malls in GGP's portfolio are ripe for redevelopment. In my conversations with the Brookfield team, they specifically cited Carolina Place Mall. In addition to actively pursuing the mall as a stop for the extension, they want to add apartments and make other upgrades to make it more of a destination than it currently is. It will not go away, but look for more development similar to what has occurred around South Park to happen actually on the grounds of the mall. While we may see some of this start in the near term, it is likely a 10 year+ timeline for a material impact to be made.
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37 minutes ago, a2theb said:
It seems that people sometimes forget that they live in a city. Nobody deserves to have their car window smashed or be violated by somebody rummaging through your car but at the same time some people need to realize that they live in an urban area and shouldn't leave anything in their car.
I always giggle to myself when I see nextdoor posts like "someone stole my golf clubs, laptop and $1000 in US currency from my car. I think I remembered to lock it but I'm not sure". No sh*t, your car was parked on a city street with the door unlocked.
I agree 100%. In St. Louis, if you parked on the street you just took everything with you and left your doors unlocked. Some mornings you would come back and your glove compartment would be open, but all the windows would be intact.
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On 11/17/2019 at 9:52 AM, tarhoosier said:
Just for fun I looked for Afshin Ghazi online. He was the developer (?) of Epicentre and lost control of it in a blizzard of non-payment/bankrupcy/liens/lawsuits. The latest entry I find is for his company Connecticut Avenue, LLC, and property at 940 West Tyvola, vacant at Tyvola and South Tryon. The rezoning request I found was from 2016. The Ghazi Company website is fractured and without updates since Epicentre was an active project (years).
"...lost control of it in a blizzard of non-payment/bankruptcy/liens/lawsuits..." = FRAUD
Tarhoosier - You put it very politely. It was his and his business partner's violation of the fraud provisions in the bankruptcy code that allowed the court to consolidate cases and ownership of companies to result in a near total loss for them and a $1 million fine a piece.
There are some additional links in that story which go into the fraud aspect.
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I would ask them how many total floors they have...
How tall are Canopy and AC hotels in SouthPark? You forgot the other Spectrum Vantage tower. The old CBJ building is down, so I think we can consider this one under construction.
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Not sure if this should be here or in the SouthPark thread, but does anyone know what is going on at the corner of Runnymede and Selwyn? Over the last 2-3 weeks several houses have been demolished right here. Below is a screenshot with a blue square around the area...though I think the area may be longer than the area I marked. I will try to grab a few pics on the way home today.
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1 hour ago, Matthew.Brendan said:
Now, Neumann himself isn’t very important, foolish charlatans are common in society. The question is why he became so powerful despite being so obviously unfit for a role stewarding billions in capital and managing thousands of people. And that’s where we get to the real power centers behind this fiasco, the financiers who lent WeWork large sums of money. This includes Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan and Masayoshi Son of Softbank.
Dimon’s role is prosaic; his bank essentially financed WeWork after Dimon was tricked by Neumann into thinking the real estate money losing enterprise represented the future. Dimon wanted JP Morgan serve as Neumann’s personal banker, to serve as the commercial banker to WeWork, to take the company public, and to offer credit services as well.
If you know Dimon’s actual reputation, him getting suckered isn’t surprising. From what I heard back in 2009, Dimon is a mediocrity who essentially got lucky his bank was too slow to get in on the subprime scam in 2006; he then used his bank’s incompetence at getting into the bubble as justification for how prudent he was. In this case, however, Dimon didn’t miss the fraud boat. JP Morgan managed to just make it into WeWork, the last round of the money losing fake tech bubble. Dimon will now portray himself as the adult cleaning up the mess, but of course, he’s more of an arsonist pretending to be a firefighter.
As a second aside, most of this 2009(ish) stuff could be said about Stumpf and Wells Fargo.
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Has anyone heard anything about an Olympic Training Facility coming to Kannapolis? See an old article below. Is this going to have a real economic impact or is it more of a smaller center?
https://www.salisburypost.com/2019/10/08/olympic-athlete-training-center-considering-kannapolis-for-new-site/