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It makes sense but will probably never happen for the same reason San Antonio and Austin don't have 1 larger airport. No city wants to give up its identity like that and Brunswick county would probably oppose it in their county. But they are both growing metro areas. Myrtle Beach for obvious reasons has a lot of seasonal service which is less in Wilmington.

this is big news for Greenville 900 new jobs at a new solar factory. Greenville NC was chosen over sites in Arizona and Georgia. BOVIET SOLAR SELECTS NORTH CAROLINA FOR FIRST NORTH AMERICAN PRODUCTION FACILITY | Boviet Solar Manufacturer expected to bring 900 jobs to Greenville | Local News | reflector.com

Large new industrial and warehouse park coming to south Greensboro. Toyota suppliers should be very interested in these buildings. Cushman & Wakefield to Lease Southeast 85 PowerPlex in N.C. (commercialsearch.com) Southeast 85 PowerPlex - Home

Nice handy list of nonstop flights from RDU. Direct flights from Raleigh - Axios Raleigh

first reported in the Ledger then in the Biz Journal Shorenstein is selling its interest in the office buildings at Camp North End. The Offices @ Camp North End - Charlotte - Properties for... (jll.com) Shorenstein Properties selling office stake in Camp North End - Charlotte Business Journal (bizjournals.com) ""The San Francisco-based commercial real estate firm is seeking a 90% recapitalization or the outright sale of The Offices @ Camp North End, according to a JLL property listing. JLL is marketing the property on behalf of Shorenstein. The 380,031-square-foot site includes five adaptive-reuse office buildings — 701 Keswick Ave.; 1701 and 1801 N. Graham streets; and 201 and 301 Camp roads. They span 20 acres on the Camp North End site. The buildings delivered between 2019 and 2022 and are 58% occupied. Tenants include Software startup Mentra, local tech firm Kingsmen Software, Google Fiber, Bolton & Menk, Petfolk, Centene Corp., Ally Financial’s TM Studio, CloudGenera, Passero Associates and Pine Gate Renewables. Shorenstein joined Atco Properties & Management in the redevelopment project in 2018 as a strategic capital partner. ""

Bucees is coming to Fayette County. from the Houston Biz Journal "BUC-EE’S-WELCOME TO FAYETTE COUNTY!!!" the state senator wrote on Facebook. "Another great economic and commercial achievement for our District!" Several sources have confirmed to MBJ that Robert Sloan with The Shopping Center Group is representing Buc-ee's on the deal. Sloan declined to comment. The site is 28 acres, according to an image Walley posted, and directly to the north of Interstate 40. The news was made public at a meeting of the Fayette County Board of Commissioners on April 23. The site sits about halfway between Ford Motor Co.'s BlueOval City and Memphis. The company has yet to confirm details such as scale of the facility, expected employment count, and more. A PR representative who works on behalf of Buc-ee's could not be reached by MBJ's deadline. Texas-based Buc-ee's serves as a popular stop known for its food, clean bathrooms and safety. The company averages $60 million per location, according to a fact sheet published by Sen. Walley. Wages average $17-$19 an hour and come with benefits. The Fayette County location would join at least two other locations in Tennessee, in Crossville and Sevierville. When the Sevierville location opened in June 2023, it was the company's largest store yet, at 74,000 square feet, but that title will soon be challenged. A location in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, also is in the works, but the company last year called off its plans for a location in Clarksville, Tennessee, which could have been the fourth location in the state. Buc-ee's selects Memphis-area location in Fayette County - Houston Business Journal (bizjournals.com)

Saw this on Channel 2 news tonight and they are doing features on all the new big projects in town. New Pinnacle building to tower over Nashville Yards (wkrn.com)

Enjoyed my stay here in Music City and the Land Between the Lakes heading back to Charlotte. Thanks again and special thanks to @smeagolsfree for telling me what this or that was that I was looking at! Come see us over in Charlotte sometime and my offer still stands free lunch on me and a tour that will knock your socks off by train, car, and express lanes. June 15 some of the Charlotte Urbanists and Charlotte Urbanplanet people are going on a walking tour of our capital city Raleigh come join us starts at Raleigh's Union Station. A couple of photos of bison at LBL and a few from Charlotte and Raleigh I have taken in the last few weeks. ( I will be the tour guide in Raleigh too) 3 of the Bison as you can see and that one bison was charging the fence at those 3 ladies. Charlotte starts with the Firebird statue locally referred to as the Disco Chicken. 5 photos first Raleigh photo starts skyline in the distance shot after the Charlotte skyline freeway shot. 10 photos

You could put a hotel tower where that education building is and keep the existing church sanctuary look at the survey. Go to the flyer then click on the Negative No Build easement. What I am saying a hotel could be built here and use the church as part of it. A hotel would need no parking just a drop off point and could use or work out a deal with Stiles and the 110 East Tower. Plus with my plan the tree would not be touched as it is in the corner on the other side of the sanctuary. In other NC cities they would find a way and places like Savannah you could not tear down a 100 year old building like that easily.

Had a few minutes to kill so I drove by the airport and I mean right by the terminal. The hotel looks great. I sure hope all the road improvements ease the access in and out. It was extremely congested for a Thursday evening it seem to me.

77 South widening with a partner or the state alone needs to get going with the tolled express lanes. Transit Time: The cost of widening I-77 south of uptown Charlotte keeps rising | WFAE 90.7 - Charlotte's NPR News Source

Walked around Opry Mills too and I saw Paula Deen opened a restaurant here and elevated it since it right by the river. It is still hard to believe that 10 feet of floodwaters were in this mall. Couple new stores opening there too. Lots of tourists in the mall and the Grand Ole Opry next door.

Wilson County: the county seat of Lebanon and my quick walk-through. Reminds me of Franklin just smaller and not as developed. However, I see lots of potential here for example the county or town-owned parking lot at the square. They should partner with a developer and build an apartment building there with ground-floor retail to further infuse residents downtown. I did see some new townhomes a couple of blocks from downtown going up. Saw 2 ongoing renovations on the square and a new build. Maybe incent some building owners to put in apartments above the retail too. In a fast growing county like Wilson there are lots of possibilities. I have seen many towns in the Charlotte region revitalize their small downtowns like that. My self guided walking tour of downtown and drive-by of the current courthouse. I would have loved to seen some of the older ones. That Burger King downtown seems oddly placed. There was a brewery with outside bar seating on the square.

thanks that is interesting about which rooms were more profitable. Because this is only 6-7 stories there would not be much of a view anyway.

You could build a hotel where the education building is located, a high rise with no parking (since the office building has so much), and use the church building as a restaurant lobby area for such. I have seen that before in fact Greensboro Marriott downtown uses an old fire station as a restaurant for the hotel and the room tower is behind it. Here you could build a room tower to the side of the original church.

from CPE Magazine about the Oracle move and headquarters announcement. Behind Oracle's HQ Move to Nashville - Commercial Property Executive (commercialsearch.com)

Dunbar Cave State Park in Clarksville has an interesting history of being a big resort and country music dances. The cave is open for tours May to September so I could just walk around the park.

Okay I walked from Opry Mills over to the Opryland Hotel (and believe me it is not the best walk through parking lots and so forth) but I did as I have not seen the Opryland Hotel in years. This 2888-room hotel the largest in the state and the largest I hear non-casino hotel in the country is truly amazing. I got my steps in for sure and I still missed the waterpark. I was getting hot in those atriums as all that water and sun inside the glass atrium made it hot I did feel like I was on the Gulf coast. anyway an amazing hotel that really gets the convention business and there was a large on there today. The only hotel this side of Vegas that needs a huge map and app to guide you around. I never saw the check-in area as I came into the convention center and worked my way around. This is like an Embassy Suites on steriods and nicer public spaces than my normal Hampton Inns. I liked the history of WSM and how Nashville became Music City and who coined it. Charlotte before Nashville was a center of country music with our 50,000 watt station WBT but WSM could broadcast to more of the country given its location and took the mantle away from Charlotte. And the rest as they say is history. By the way the largest hotel in NC is the Harrahs Cherokee Hotel with 1800 rooms.

That's no joke I would love it. That is the part I don't like is the church building being possibly torn down I wish it could be adaptively reused and a tower to the side where their education building is located.

10 story apartment tower proposed for the area but North Hills or Exchange development but nearby. ""A 10-story apartment building could be coming to midtown Raleigh just inside the Beltline. New site plans have been filed for Mellow Field, a mid-rise apartment building near the Interstate 440 and Capital Boulevard 401 interchange. Mellow Field Investments LLC, addressed to REIT Place Rentals out of Cary, is listed as the developer. It also owns the property, acquiring it in Jan. 2022 for $310,000. REIT Place Rentals is a real estate investment, management and development company. The 1.65-acre site is at 2661 Mellow Field Drive off Atlantic Avenue and is partially forested. The developer is committing to preserving 18 percent of the trees on-site. "" Midtown Raleigh eyed for 10-story apartment tower with rooftop pool - Triangle Business Journal (bizjournals.com)

I interrupt my Nashville trip to post this and I'm really surprised this is for sale. Look at the first right Stiles has. Very interesting and I have mixed feelings about this. https://mpvre.com/properties/1800-south-boulevard/

with slow traffic on interstates common here I was able to get some good shots yesterday. Today I took the Briley Parkway east and north to get around downtown on my way out of town.

here is another one I took yesterday of the site of your new tallest tower.

Greetings from Clarksville in Montgomery County where I am for the night. The 5th largest city in the state. First time here so lots of local photos. I went out to the Land Between the Lakes first and came back through Clarksville. As a college town and military town there are lots of tattoo shops and pawn shops. Downtown seems pretty vibrant but I did not see much housing there apartments etc. I did see a massive parking garage going up. Lots of monuments and statues. Their riverfront park on the Cumberland River is nice. That water fountain downtown is beautiful I wish it was running.

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