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But the names downtown and midtown have existed in this city in some form, forever. We always called uptown, downtown growing up. I just embraced calling it uptown when i moved back four years ago. My first job was at Midtown Square Mall.

Anyone know what's going on across the street (Bre\vard) from First Ward Park? They put orange fencing around some the area a week or two ago and thought it might be for another event, but this morning I noticed some heavy equipment in there.

lol at all the coded language in this thread. just say what you want to say. most of you commenting now just don't feel safe when white people aren't the vast majority whether something happens or not. i wonder what those kids on the bikes looked like? (this is part of the "culture" y'all scream about on here) I wonder why southpark and southend make you feel safer? i live uptown and my family has for over 20 years and it's no more or less any safer than any other part town. uptown is perfectly fine all the time, but you're using this one incident to go off on safety, fear and low key bigoted rants. this is America. anything can happen anyplace at any time. humans are dangerous period.

Cleveland has also been working on completely renovating the apartments that sit between Caldwell and Davidson. It's pretty extensive renovations. When they first started i thought it would just be cosmetic cosmetic changes, but i've been impressed with what i've seen so far.

I went by there yesterday as a part of my daily walk and the concrete is clearly for outside dining (or something else, but definitely not parking) . the slab of concrete is slightly elevated and there is space (dirt for now) between the concrete and the road. Both lead me to believe that it can't be for parking. I've been wrong before though, so we'll see.

Dude. We get it. You don't like it and you look down on that part of town. You even went out of your way to say that Eastland (isn't some great area). Wonder why you don't like these areas? What are you trying to prove? It's a Soccer facility that's privately funded. What's to hate? You don't even know what it's going to look like and your trashing it, because you feel like good things only deserve to be in certain parts of town, around certain types of people.

Lol, you guys are really telling on yourselves here. The code in these replies isn’t hidden very well. We get it. If it’s not majority white, or doesn’t cater to white people most of you don’t like it. It scares you. That’s Charlotte. Always has been. Always will be.

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I don't get the impatience on this. We all knew from the time that construction started that it would be a slow process given the careful nature of renovating an old theater, the small plot and from what I've read on here, the builder.

Totally get what you're saying and I don't want to derail this thread, but that's not good enough. My father grew up in Cherry and I played little league there for three years. Drove through there in July when I was visiting before I moved back to Charlotte and damn near cried. History is more than buildings. It's the people. I think folks in this forum forget that because it mostly never affects people that look like them. Cherry is gone. Guys on here complain all the time about old buildings being torn town but are silent when it comes to gentrify old black neighborhoods. Anyway, building looks great if it ever gets built.

Cherry is no longer "historic". All that history is gone.

Some of you guys love blaming EVERYTHING on the evil transportation center. We understand what you really mean though. Just moved back to town after being gone most of the last 14 years. Walked to CVS in the Epicenter and totally fine. Decided that i wanted some Bojangles and guess where I went GASP, the transportation center location. I wasn't harassed or even talked to lol. Just say you don't like black people. be honest with yourself. Everybody I see passes the bus center on the opposite side of the street if they need to go by it. LMAO, you guys fear people that are unlike you so much. I love development and have been lurking on here for well over decade but rarely comment because i don't feel i belong. To see the closeted bigots on here is disgusting. the sad part is most of you don't even realize it.

LOL. Your solution is basically, "hey, just move those black people out of there. They'll figure it out. As long as we get something shiny and new, who cares?" You really think all those people would be "relocated to somewhere nicer"? You're cute. The sad part is, most people in the city think the same way you do.

You know, I've come on this site for years (it's a part of my daily routine) because I have genuinely loved construction and development since I was a child and I enjoy hearing about all the amazing new things going on in my hometown, but every now and then some of you guys are very judgmental about certain people that live in certain parts of town. Your comment was very ignorant. I'm sorry that "the random neighborhood people" don't speak in a manner that suits you, but they have a right to voice their opinions just like anyone else in the city when it comes to matters that effect where they live no matter how you think they may sound. For a couple years of my life, I was one of those "random neighborhood people" but I guess you thought those types of people don't come to sites like this.