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Unless you know of a way to force Pineville to accept the light rail...it's not going to happen, sadly.

Interesting bit in the CO regarding 'Ballantyne' creating South City Partners and looking to become a full-fledged "municipal service district," similar to Charlotte Center City Partners or University City Partners. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/biz-columns-blogs/development/article212651814.html

Holy sh*t you sound like an insufferable tool with this comment. Any more buzzwords or generalizations you want to throw out? Take this to r/iamversmart

Right. You said you were unhappy with the trend that Uber and Lyft were putting more cars on the road. I was just pointing out how disliking this trend is silly. Of course they are putting more cars on the road....for now. It's a process that will take time. As I said before, ride sharing is causing a drop in car sales. That will eventually lead to a drop in cars on the road.

That downtown looks amazing. Empty but amazing potential. Wonder how long before it starts to flip.

I give you that uber puts more cars on the road but I don't think ride sharing makes thing more expensive to users. At least many users. Ride sharing is allowing people to not need to purchase a car. Just search "Is urber hurting car sales" to see what I am talking about. Ride sharing for many means they can ditch a car payment, maintenance costs, parking costs and insurance and taxes on at least a secondary car (if a couple) if not their primary car. Those costs are much more than taking the handful of ubers needed in a month and includes the expensive ones. About 1 in 4 work from home full time IIRC. That's a massive amount of people who don't have a daily commute. Put it another way. I think if any group should be singled out it's the drivers of personal cars that require parking. Uber is eating into these people but yet that's a trend you don't like? Interesting....

I think Uber and Lyft are the reason we're seeing a drop in rail transit. Uber averages about 5.5 million rides a day. That's 2,007500,000 rides a year...just for Uber. If you average that out to the 450 cities they service, that's 4,461,111 rides per city. But it's not an average. Odds are the cities with mass transit are going to have more people and, in turn, more uber rides. I think ride share is eating away at the % of former rail riders who were not frequent users. I know personally I have only taken the Blue Line a couple of times. It's a PITA to be frank. From the schedule to other issues, it's just easier to take an uber even though it's much more expensive.

The source study ranked New Jersey as the 4th best for economic environment. If that's true, I don't want to be good in their eyes.

Sometimes it's nice to have the dreams of what could be wash over you....

Maybe the move for current employees out to Ballantyne is to make room for the HQ in the high rent district. Roll up the Mayflower Moving vans in the middle of night like the Baltimore Colts....

This is the only reason I wanted Amazon to come here.

I wonder how much the cost of living is factoring into Raleigh. Maybe in internal company discussions. A cost of living calculator says if you're making $100k in Seattle you need to make $106k in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria. You only need $64.5k for Raleigh. That's a almost 50% raise for someone who takes a transfer. If they are in the right housing situation they could in theory cash out of Seattle > pay in cash for something similar in Raleigh just on the profits. That's life-changing.

This. For starters, that nonsense about transportation funding would be quickly taken care of. I also think Raleigh growing to similar size an influence is great for the state. Even as a conservative who doesn't belong to a party, I don't like the fact the state is 'run' by Kings Mountain and Rockingham.

I absolutely think Charlotte should reach for things like great universities and museums. I am just not naive enough to think those things happen overnight and I think it's silly to make comparisons to those with a 150-year head start and billions more in funding to play with. I am also not turning my nose up on places like NYC or Boston, I love NYC and think it's in many regards the center of the world. I just am grounded in reality as to how it's different from a city like Charlotte. I will turn my nose up on places like Buffalo because I am familiar with all of the mistakes they made in the past and continue to make today. There absolutely is a level of greed that exists but you need to pull the wool from your eyes to see it. They also fund their schools rather well and much more than North Carolina but sadly there are ignorant people who equate school funding with a path to results. I assume because they don't have the courage to address the actual issues that our education system faces. Assumptions are bad but ignorance and naivete are worse. Doing the same thing and expecting different results is insanity. Charlotte needs to work on being the best version of itself. Charting a course on envy is a dead end. There is a reason why half of the people in Charlotte moved here from other places. It's not because those places were great.... I also didn't make any assumptions about your position. Here is what I said: There is a lot of space between having the young professionals who move here stay and trying to become NYC, Boston, LA or SF. This is a fact. Charlotte is never going to become NYC, Boston, LA, and SF. This is a fact. If people are enamored with those places my suggestion is to move there rather than try to make Charlotte & Raleigh like those places. This is a suggestion based on the above.

The parking deck changes everything. Is that on a 24 year timeline?

So do I have this right that the city is still short on its initial investment of $9.2 million? Or they essentially 'paid' $4 million for 2.31 acres. On the other side of the deal, Pappas paid $5.2 million for 16 acres but has sold 4 to Pulte for $6.6 million and deeded the 2.31. So they essentially were given 10+ acres and $1.2 million for sitting on the sidelines for 12 years. Do I have that right?

It's a projected growth framework not a census.....

The framework was originally introduced in 1994 and Charlotte was half the size it is today. The reason why the corridors are where they are is that that's where the people were at the time. Nothing to do with an anglo-centric lens but you're free to protest somewhere about this I suppose.

I got that. Was just curious as to if this plant could evolve. It's located in a very business-friendly state and in a region with an advanced manufacturing labor pool.

Shouldn't this statement have a conditional on it? As in 'of its size'? The city of Charlotte is 297.7 sq mi. whereas the city of Milwaukee is just 96.84 sq mi. 68% of the urban population for Charlotte lives inside of the city whereas just 43% of the urban population of Milwaukee does. A similar projection for Buffalo (40.6 sq mi) which is also considered a segregated city that has just 23% of the urban population inside the city. Another way to put it is if Charlotte resembled a Northern segregated city by structure, areas like Ballantyne and 'the wedge' would be separate towns and the 'core' of Charlotte would look similar statistically to Milwaukee. At least that's my take.

This will sting when it happens. I wonder if there is an option to pivot this facility to a different business line.

Charlotte is already better than Topeka or Waco... Just what are some of the items from those great cities that you want Charlotte to reach for? Are you looking to replicate museums and universities that have a head start of 150 years or billions in endowments? Or do you just want to skip forward to the price of housing being so unaffordable that only the elite can become landowners? Or should we start structuring public sector contracts to where 50% of the current spend goes to golden pensions and cadillac benefits rather than the service provided? Maybe just skip ahead to the suffocating property taxes to build ghettoes of public housing complexes? I never said that Charlotte shouldn't move forward but there is nothing wrong with smart and sustainable growth. It's a process and a journey that every city needs to go through. NYC, the greatest city in the world, once had 5 points and porn shops in Times Square. Tribeca was a slum when Robert de Niro filmed The Godfather. If you don't have the patience to try and grow in a way to avoid some of these issues, my suggestion to rent a u-haul and advance to Park Place stands. Overall, I am happy with the growth trajectory of Charlotte but absolutely understand things need to be improved. We need to reach for what we can from the great and lasting cities, while at the same time, trying to avoid being the Buffalo and Cleveland of the back half of this century.

So if Duke builds the tallest building in Charlotte on this site + all of the development on Stonewall + the possibility of another large tower at the old Duke site.... It's possible that the Stonewall view becomes the new skyline and could almost erase the BofA tower from the skyline.

There is a lot of space between having the young professionals who move here stay and trying to become NYC, Boston, LA or SF. Charlotte is never going to become NYC, Boston, LA, and SF. If people are enamored with those places my suggestion is to move there rather than try to make Charlotte & Raleigh like those places.

I don't think $500 per employee per year is enough to make a company move or start staffing elsewhere. But I wouldn't mind at all if California fell into the ocean. No if Mountain View started hammering property taxes on these companies and their campuses, that's a different story.