Old Carolinian

"Also what was the Concourse B-C connector? Was the atrium not built at the time." The atrium was built sometime in the later1990's; can't remember when; there was a 'walkway' between B and C. Commuter flights originally used the ground level of D concourse after it was constructed; concourse E was added in the late 1990's. Concourse A must have been built in the mid to later 1990's, also. The image below is the airport terminal when it opened in 1984. No A, D or E concourses. No atrium. No parking garages or parking decks. No 'long term' surface parking. Concourse B was somewhat 'shorter' than it is now. While it looks small, it was somewhat of a 'step up' from the 1955 terminal and concourses.

I don't understand the comment about the NYC area hemorrhaging population. From the US Census Bureau: The population of NYC in 2010 was 8,175,133. The 2016 estimate was 8,537,133. That's an increase of 362,000. The population of the NYC SMSA in 2010 was 19,567,410. The 2016 estimate was 20,153,634. That's an increase of 586,000. Have I done the math wrong? Am I missing something?

Yeah, an average salary of $32,600 per year for being a “highly skilled, highly trained local associate” is better than making $9 an hour or $19,000 a year (if full-time) working on the sales floor of a Wal-Mart.

Is this the original building everyone is excited about: the Query-Spivey-McGee feed store? Downtown would be enhanced with a big 'Purina Chows' sign. And, some wooden loading platforms would add character to the block.

While it's good that Amazon has created 500 to 700 jobs, we shouldn't forget that the wage for a warehouse worker at Amazon is approximately $12 an hour or $24,000 per year if the job is full-time. But, another positive: Amazon wages are $2, maybe $3, more per hour than a workers earn at a Wal-Mart

The tax parcel information for the strip center at 1334 Central (where the Family Dollar is located) show it being constructed in 1959. There is an adjacent parcel of land to the southwest of the strip center on which the former Cole Manufacturing was located. That parcel does have a two story building that was designed by Louis Asbury, a prominent Charlotte architect. The Asbury designed building was built in 1912. I don't remember what was on the property before the strip center and its acres of asphalt parking. Looking at old maps of Charlotte, pre-1949 and pre-independence Boulevard, the maps show Clement bisecting the property and continuing north of Central (where the Smokehouse is located). I do remember the second incarnation of an A&P was located on the parcel that is now a CVS. The old A&P building suffered fire damage in the mid 1960's and was demolished. The third incarnation of the A&P was in the strip center. And the three story Charlotte Casket Company factory was located on the north side of Central next to the CSX line. Anyway, a polite description of the strip center and its ocean of asphalt would be 'unaesthetic'.