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  1. 29 minutes ago, Norm2 said:

    I don't think we need a Downtown moniker for any of our neighborhoods. I don't think we need a Midtown either. Let our neighborhoods be unique. We don't need to copy the names of the major districts of Manhattan that many other cities have copied.

    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.  

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  2. 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. 

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  3. 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. 

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  4. 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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  5. 1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

     

    Indy is also building a new 1,000 room convention hotel.  

    I think that Charlotte's convention center should be razed and rebuilt outside of 277.  I'd like to see a park/plaza in the middle of the existing site (like Madison Square or Union Square) with office buildings and residential buildings surrounding it.   I think a great site for a new center would be where all of those horrible housing projects are on Remount Rd. with the main entrance on S. Tryon St.  The residents there could be relocated to somewhere nicer.  It would be a win-win for everyone.

    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. 

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  6. It was more on the some minor streetscape changes (bike lanes and sidewalks) for a number of station areas.   The BLE is green and on schedule.  

     

    It turned out to be very much a meeting letting the random neighborhood people to spout "oh lawd, child, there will turrible traffic, when y'all shut dawn Sugaw Creek Road" complaints for temporary construction detours.  

     

     

    Then on some of the items I had hoped for more detail about, like the cross-charlotte trail, there is actually no answers until the bonds hopefully pass next Tuesday and we have design services complete for routing.

     

     

    A few points that were interesting to me:

    - 25th St over LSCG will be reconnected as a full street, not just a ped-bridge as previously planned

    - Parkwood will remain 2-lanes per direction but be widened for bike lanes and better sidewalks, rather than a road diet as implied on the city website (which actually show Brevard).  

    - I had forgotten about the change to Sugar Creek Road crossing where the road will be taken over the railroad.  

    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. 

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