[Cotswold Area Projects]

If they're going to parachute in an urban-ish store in a very suburban area, traffic is a very real, legitimate concern.  I doubt that this store will draw that much more traffic to Cotswold in general, but it sure would add traffic to a corner of the neighborhood that cannot handle the traffic it already has.  This would make a lot more sense if the took Miesian Corners suggestion to line up their drive with the Cotswold Village entrance on Randolph and add a traffic light with left turn signals (looking at you, Greenwich) to that intersection.   

 

If I lived on Chiswick or Barwick, I'd be freaking out right now.

 

I live over on Water Oak and use that neighborhood to get back to Sharon Amity from Colwick.  Traffic is going to be a nightmare for those residents.  Those "Wick" streets need to be tied into the surrounding neighborhoods.

[History of Charlotte]

My sister is getting married in September to a guy who is from California and really enjoys history, so I want to get him a book about Charlotte. Looking for something informative and interesting, with good pictures but also some decent historical knowledge. Something kind of between a coffee table book and a textbook. Any ideas?

 

Dan Morrill has his book Historic Charlotte available free online - http://landmarkscommission.org/Morrill%20Book/Index.htm

There's also Hornet's Nest by LeGette Blythe and Charles Brockman - http://www.cmstory.org/history/hornets/content.htm

 

Hanchett's book is the most complete scholarly book on Charlotte, though the in depth material really runs to about World War II.

[Metropolitan, Midtown Redevelopment]

^That said it is in the most awkward of spaces as far as finding the entrance.  Has anyone else gone there?  

 

Either you drive to 2/3rd level of parking deck and enter there,  or from the street you enter what almost looks like more doors for Best Buy, take the escalator up to Marshall's, and then exit into the parking desk and the Staples Store is to the left..

 

I usually park on the first floor at Target and walk over.  It's so much easier than combating the TJ's and office traffic.

[SouthEnd Midrise Projects]

Love it. It's like the button/magnet series (its hard to find them now) that had stuff like "SouthEnd, where we like 'em big and pink." "Dilworth, I want to touch your bungalow"

 

A friend of mine made those buttons/magnets.  She moved back to SoCal, so that's why you don't see them anymore.