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I assume it is this building: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/wanamaker-building John Wanamaker made the famous statement that 50% of his advertising budget was wasted and he did not know which half it was.

Homelessness is a continuing problem in 4th Ward. What might it be at this location which is a bit out of the circulation route for those fellows (I think). Edit: I visit Elmwood occasionally and the homeless are nearly invisible. No tents, sleeping bags, no pile of detritus from living/sleeping nearby. No wanderers, though they may pass through and not linger. The cemetery staff may focus on that.

Superb retrospective, DJ. The site was the longtime home of Hollywood (film/video production) Rentals, a dimly lit convenience/gas station with the most well thumbed porno photo magazines I ever saw, and Hinnant Artificial Limb company. All three doomed by success of the regenerated area. Creative destruction, invisible hand, yadda. This is your Urban Planet.

Former Lowrance Hospital, Mooresville. Then located in Mooresville on Center Street, I believe. I know two people born there.

I recall the Beaucatcher Mountain tunnel as the US 70 approach to Asheville. An impressive view of the city at the time as one emerged to the daylight. The cut today is an entrance to modern roadside chain service effluvia and drek. The mountain was exploded to make the Beaucatcher cut for modern highway access. Kermit is correct that railroad tunnels have an effective life of 100+ years for the company which chooses to build one though that is a vanishing number today. The cost can be colossal but the savings over such a long time frame are also quite significant over maintaining a curving, hillside, flood prone alternative. (buried communications lines, cough)

Good restaurant mirror: On Reddit someone said he had a wager and the loser had to eat at a restaurant chosen by the winner. In other words, where is the WORST dining experience possible in Charlotte. Replies are hilarious. This does not include fine dining that is short of expectations but honestly sanitation grade 81 or lower/full native Asian menu spice level/desultory service experience. Entertaining reading.

Yes, this. Vancouver is a major cruise port for Alaska CRuises, Hawaii and other destinations not served or poorly served from the U. S. due to the Jones Act. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Marine_Act_of_1920 Legislation created to subsidize US ship builders which became useless almost immediately for international shipping.

go here: https://www.census.gov/construction/c30/historical_data.html then to private /seasonally adjusted. File is small and downloads and opens fast for me. What does this convergence mean? Opinions requested. (These two may be unconnected and the change is independent of the two variables) Nonetheless the data center boom is impressive.

I noticed the sings on that new building while driving Wednesday. I was stumped by the upper sign. I assumed it was Wake medical school but it conveyed zero meaning to me. edit: the Atrium symbol conveys meaning because I have learned its symbolism. (whatever a tree of life/stalk of grain or otherwise it is meant to convey)

Maybe my imagination but this building is rising faster than other recent buildings with less height.

Every idea now commonly accepted was once eccentric and controversial. Nearly all eccentric and controversial ideas are never commonly accepted. (crib from Bertrand Russell and likely others.)

Will a new hotel facing a public bus station improve the street experience?

Any attraction that brings families and children into the life of the central city is an absolute good for all citizens.

incentivize=subsidize?

We know that in a general sense that lower education contributes to Republican votes and to Trump votes specifically and especially. Important to note that means formal education. Learning has the opportunity to continue through life if the individual is open to it. A voter choosing a candidate who promises to act against their interest and then voting for the same party/candidate again indicates a failure of personal learning not only institutional education. This is a global issue and not politics alone. Politics crystallizes the issue with data and numbers.