wilmore

The "Dog House" has to be one of the most useless buildings in Charlotte.

The original plans show the Frothy building coming down, but they are pretty clear that none of that is final, and it sounds like the eventual reality would lead to these being bargained away. I think some individuals seem to think there could be a 20-story building or some sort of multi-use facility there. It's true that Mint St is a bit of a traffic issue, and one of the few things that NCDOT has done here is studied that the train facility would not lead to much more additional traffic (how could it, there wouldn't be that many people working there). People did get very excited when they talked about putting a building *over* the train facility, kind of like Ogilvie station in Chicago.

Do you actually have some materials on these issues? NCDOT has provided nothing, and the spokesperson they sent out did not bring any of these up, so I'm not sure how Wilmore would be expected to engage with these concerns. The meeting was mostly just Wilmore residents saying "it seems like this land is way more valuable" and NCDOT saying well, we don't know, we haven't done any work on this since 2002.

This could be great! Their branding is awesome and one of the better breweries around IMO.

They're reinstating Phat Burrito in 2023, no one said they had good taste.

Mostly just that it isn't a blank warehouse build with a bunch of picnic tables thrown outside, they did a lot of landscaping and have a different setip. It is true that a lot of the other ones (OMB comes to mind) also have this, I just don't really go to those. Sycamore is an example of somewhere that put in very little effort, especially with their new space (yet seemingly has tapped into a massive audience?)

Monday Night opening up this week on Tryon St. looks like a very nice atmosphere. They look to be putting a lot more effort into it than most breweries.

NCDOT wants to put a Heavy Rail Maintenance Facility in Wilmore and is in town looking into it this week. Supposedly this has been a plan since 2002, and even then the neighborhood had complaints about how this was not a good location for such a facility. If they end up building this facility, it would result in Summit Ave. closing over I-77 - this is a great spot for connectivity between Wilmore/SouthEnd and Wesley Heights/West Side. I'm sure there are better locations for such a large, heavy industrial facility than 1 mile from downtown in a very popular area (this facility could also impact the potential sale of Pipe & Foundry land as they would want Summit connectivity as well).

It would probably take about 3 hours to get from CLT to Billy Bishop on a turboprop? Can't imagine it would be that popular.

At current light rail capacity, it would take what, like 5 hours of trains to fill that building?

Agreed, the historic district is the only thing stopping Wilmore from being another McMansion neighborhood. Related, the houses on West Blvd, while probably not the *optimal* use for that space, look really good right now after most have been renovated.

This sounds amazing, I hope my neighbors don't complain too much...

let's goooooooo!

It's gotta be one of the worst locations for a brewery in the entire Greater SouthEnd area.

It's so hard for me to imagine wanting to live in South Park over Myers Park. Do you really need those extra 2K square feet? Does make sense that people from the northeast might want the biggest, most luxury spot, but as far as neighborhood and location Myers Park is tough to top.

Went to Gilde the other day, and while the food was good, multiple beers tasted infected. Not what you want to see from a "German" brewery.

It is incredible that CATS doesn't even attempt to provide ridership projections for these routes.

This is such a small portion of trips that I can't see it ever happening. Even in a theoretical world where we are running 5 minute headways, there might be 2 intra-South End trips a year where it could make sense for me to hop on the train. Maybe I'm missing a common use case, but in my experience, these things just don't happen much in Charlotte. It's way, way easier to just drive around, and will continue to be.

It's hard for me to imagine something that big ever going on this site; this type of scale would really need the entire road grid around there to be changed, and 277 to be moved; otherwise, this is the least accessible spot within the entire greater Uptown area (except for Music Factory, which is bad for similar reasons), so I don't know why we would expect like 20 towers to be filled here.

I've always thought the usage of Morehead and East, for lawyers/finance/doctor/other rich people's offices, was strange. All those awesome houses on East and similar that are just law offices.

They probably originally saw them as a decent anchor and traffic generator, but it's pretty clear now that they are not.

Yunta Nikkei was one of the best meals I've had in town (and was absolutely popping on a Tuesday night)

Outdoor Voices is also under construction

No, it's not. Almost every successful IPO in the past decade previously raised a Series D.

Because it's completely separated from every other area, doesn't add anything to any existing neighborhoods, and moves touring acts from other venues to the hidden corner.