jtmonk

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I mean damn, the panels could at least be red to match the brick.

April 5

@I miss RVA I wouldn't read too much into the Raleigh rezoning. In Raleigh, if developers want to construct anything above 20 stories, they typically have to rezone it for up to 40 stories. It's likely that these developers intend to build something within the 20-30 story range. However, due to zoning regulations, they're required to zone it up to 40 stories, but that doesn't necessarily imply they'll actually build to that height.

December 18, 2023

@KJHburg Damnit, I totally forgot about this meetup. I was right down the road from you guys at Tucker's Tap Yard with the dogs. Hope you guys had fun.

December 5, 2023

30 minutes ago, CLT Development said:

The Development numbers actually have it at quite a bit larger and definitely more urban than Birkdale. The site is only 6 acres smaller than Birkdale, and will have FAR LESS surface parking.

Could it be something similar to North Hills in Raleigh? Maybe like North Hills and Birkdale combined, take the best of both and replicate it here.

November 2, 2023

43 minutes ago, blopp1234 said:

RDU is a focus city for Delta, which uses routes to places such as Cincinnati to feed passengers into flights to Frankfurt, London, Iceland and Paris. Charlotte being the American Airlines hub that it is allows passengers from across the southeast to be funneled into CLT so instead of just capturing demand from the Charlotte metro area, which wouldn’t support all the European flights currently offered from Charlotte, American is able to capture demand from multiple cities, such as Birmingham, New Orleans, Memphis, etc. and funnel those passengers through Charlotte, allowing them to fill their European flights.

While RDU is a focus city for Delta, they only feed passengers to Paris on Air France. American flies to London, Icelandair flies to Iceland, and Lufthansa flies to Frankfurt, none of which Delta would generate traffic for. RDU punches above it's weight for a number of reasons but I think the main reason is corporate support, I believe a number of corporations and universities in the area put money aside for the Lufthansa flight. This is what RIC should concentrate on, drumming up support from local corporations in my mind would be the best bet to land service to Europe. That, along with the new Airbus 321 XLR should give RIC a very real chance at getting service to Europe.

July 26, 2023

It’s taken from Kane Realty/Mackenan’s RFQ response to the Town of Cary municipal complex redevelopment project. Axios’ article includes a link to a folder where all received RFQ responses are available for view.

July 26, 2023

Not sure if this is the current proposal but just found this.

June 16, 2023

19 hours ago, JacksonH said:

I saw this commercial today for BMW. Is that Charlotte?

That's LA

April 24, 2023

11 hours ago, elrodvt said:

That's interesting, Why is NC DOT second in the country? It can't be miles of road in the state right? Do counties or some other entity break it up in other states?

Correct. In most other states you have state maintained roads, county maintained roads, and city/municipal maintained roads. In North Carolina you only have state maintained roads and city/municipal maintained road. This set up means that NCDOT is responsible for a greater share of roadways than other state DOTs.

March 17, 2023

12 hours ago, KJHburg said:

the 3 Morehead corridor towers rising from uptown today. I see 4 cranes in the 2nd shot including the Wake Forest Med school tower.

You can actually see 6 cranes, maybe even a 7th in the south park area but it's too blurry to make out. There are 4 cranes for the Morehead towers, a fifth at the med school, and 6th is in the tree line next to the med school tower.

March 16, 2023

1 hour ago, Take2 said:

Couldn't agree more. Can't imagine the new name or whatever taking off. We know it for what it's been for decades. Must Charlotte developers completely erase everything!!

This is actually Chicago developers, but I agree that the name change is stupid.

March 2, 2023

@SydneyCarton I appreciate the pictures. However, some context would be nice so we know what project we are looking at.

February 7, 2023

36 minutes ago, allthingsplanes said:

It's definitely true that the airport "terminal" is underwhelming compared to most, but I do wonder how many comparable US cities there are? Obviously, we're nothing like New York or LA. but for the most comparable these are the only ones I can think of:

Orlando

Tampa / St. Pete

Philadelphia / Trenton

Dallas

Houston

Of course, Dallas and Houston's 2nd airports are much larger and more established. Orlando and Tampa's 2nd airports have actual terminal buildings.

My criteria was where the 2nd airport is part of the metro and not a 2nd, close, large city (such as San Francisco and San Jose, or Miami and Fort Lauderdale). Particularly where the airline essentially advertises that you're flying to the main city (thus why I thought of Philadelphia). Are there any others I missed?

St Louis Mid America Airport, Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, Paine Field Seattle, Norfolk International Airport and Newport News International.

September 21, 2022

18 minutes ago, tozmervo said:

Nashville's numbers are definitely worse - often MUCH worse. At a quick scan I found a 171k count on I-24 leading into downtown, just one of six interstate legs going into downtown.

Transportation Data Management System (ms2soft.com)

Also note that the NCDOT ADT numbers are from 2020 which would be skewed due to COVID. If you zoom in you can click on the dots and look at the previous years. For example, I-77 North of 277 had an ADT of 181k in 2016.

July 12, 2022

There's a number of reasons for not including a curb. The one I run into a lot is due to stormwater regulations. Sometimes the City's stormwater administrator will prefer ditches as a better means to control stormwater runoff as it's cheaper to maintain and allows water to naturally filter through the ground. Now I always prefer curbing because of aesthetics but if our stormwater administrator prefers ditches I usually go along with his recommendation.

May 6, 2022

1 hour ago, theronhobbs said:

Since this glass jewel will be no more than 5' off the back of curb, has any consideration been given to protecting the building from vehicular traffic at the intersection? Even if there's room, a couple, beautiful, OSHA-yellow bollards would look great here after a car plows into the lobby a month after it opens in 2037.

It's more than 5' off the back of curb, the construction fence blocks most of the sidewalk in that picture. However, on the 6th street side you have a section of sidewalk that's 6' wide. It's always been that way but the City is installing separated bike lanes here with a raised curb so you'll have plenty of separation from traffic.

April 19, 2022

9 hours ago, Vitamin_N said:

I tweeted this and it ended up being my most-liked tweet ever. Which is a low bar, but still... One acquaintance of mine even booked a first class ticket with his AA miles. Aviation enthusiasts are an enthusiastic bunch! (Tried to give you some credit in the original tweet btw.)

https://twitter.com/PFDigest/status/1516113737819774982?t=9fSIpqmpzJZgzb4hAOhKlw&s=19

I'm not going to lie, I was very close to booking a flight but I'll already be out of town that week .

April 18, 2022

3 hours ago, southslider said:

Not Elizabeth Avenue. Oldest section of streetcar. And still NO development.

You can thank the property owners for that. If the property was in other hands it would most certainly be developed.

March 28, 2022

What probably happened was the development passed the threshold for stormwater requirements and now must include some type of device for stormwater retention. A retention pond is one option however there are also underground retention devices that can be used. I'm sure the developer is fighting back because this can be expensive and is saying the City is requiring a retention pond because they know it will cause more of a reaction with the media than saying their development must include a stormwater device. Also note that stormwater requirements are passed down from the state, this is not Greensboro throwing up hurdles just because they want to. Source: I'm a City Planner (not with Greensboro) and work directly with our stormwater administrator.

March 23, 2022

11 hours ago, CLT Development said:

Jim Noble sucks

Why do you say that?

February 9, 2022

2 hours ago, go_vertical said:

This opinion is solely based on my perception of things so I could be very wrong here, but from what I understand Nashville's downtown/urban growth seems to have a considerably higher residential to office ratio when compared to Charlotte. No doubt they are experiencing a housing crunch like we are here and all this residential is necessary, but without a massive increase of jobs coming to the streets surrounding these apartment towers I can't help but feel like the type of dense growth they are enjoying isn't sustainable. Without office space coming online alongside these high priced apartments eventually the pool of people willing to pay top dollar for urban living will dry up since I doubt the workers at the new manufacturing facility or surburban office park located 15-20 miles away will see the benefit in that.

With the last ten plus years of uptown Charlotte's development being so office heavy (I think this may be the single greatest period of Center City's job growth and it doesn't appear to be slowing down) Charlotte is positioned much better to absorb mid and high rise residential and I feel it will enjoy a much longer stretch of sustained dense, urban growth whereas Nashville will eventually slow down to a more realistic pace. The region will still grow but I see a higher percentage of it moving out to more of the outlying areas in typical hyper-sprawl fashion especially in the absence of a serious mass transit plan. I don't follow the city closely and maybe they are aggressively working on a plan, but with the growth they have been experiencing for a while they are certainly starting from a defecit in regards to mobility.

I hope I articulated this well without sounding like I'm bashing Nashville. I love the city and it's a super fun place to visit. Am I completely off base here? I mean, the high priced, high rise apartments ideally need to have job space coming in beside them to work on the long term right? It works very differently for a city like Miami for obvious reasons.

They'll be fine, they have a ton of office development going up as well. Amazon, Pinnacle, Oracle are investing heavily in Nashville along with many other companies.

February 4, 2022

Saw this on jasonthomasclt Instagram this morning. 130,000 SF, 8 story office building behind Optimist Hall. Looks pretty good.

December 29, 2021

The elevation you see there is elevation at sea level. Take that and subtract it from the floor elevation at sea level and you'll get your height. The residential tower looks to be around 340', the office tower looks to be around 307'.

December 16, 2021

7 hours ago, cityboi said:

City Council just voted to pass an ordinance downtown to create a "social district" allowing citizens to consume alcohol on public streets and sidewalks. To my knowledge it will be the only public area in the state where people will be able to permanently consume alcohol in public

https://www.rhinotimes.com/featured-article/to-go-cups-may-be-coming-to-downtown-greensboro/

Not the first but one of the first. Kannapolis approved on last month, Lexington is currently working on one as well.

November 5, 2021

33 minutes ago, norm21499 said:

Wow, according to The Ledger, the first building won't finish construction until 2027.....

According to the Journal it will start delivering in 2024 with full completion around 2027.

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