[Grand Bohemian Hotel – 15 Floors – 254 Rooms – Boutique Hotel]

4 minutes ago, TheOneRJ said:

Thanks so much for your feedback! I suggest investing this energy into an architecture career so maybe one day it will matter. 

So you made it?  Good job.  Guy Fieri is really proud. #donkeysauce

[Grand Bohemian Hotel – 15 Floors – 254 Rooms – Boutique Hotel]

Look at this trash. Who made this?  Are we going to AC for the weekend? 

If somebody were to tell me, "make the trashiest entrance you can think of; I want it to look like if Reno and Ventnor had a baby" I wouldn't be able to come up with this.  

Woof.

56 minutes ago, wadesboro2 said:

That sign above the front door is awesome! Looks like ancient Roman/pagan/Belle Acres vibes
 

It looks like a 23 year old who lives on 74 who's never been anywhere or seen anything was told "come up with something classy."  It looks like crap.

[MLS in Charlotte - 2021]

2 hours ago, CTiger said:

But man this just feels very . . . MS Paint-y? 

You want MS Paint? You can't handle MS Paint!

 

[Political Digression Thread -- Save UP! Move the politically focused stuff here]

On 7/17/2020 at 6:07 PM, tozmervo said:

 (And, incidentally, making them not far-left enough for many in the part.)

Bernie Sanders is to the right of Angela Merkel.  Ten years ago, Obama was to the right of the Tories (before they lost their minds).

I'm told by a lot of people who've never been anywhere or seen anything that Obama and the Democrats are the libbiest libs to ever lib and that we're on the doorstep of a Maoist revolution, not realizing America is a country of center-right and far right political parties.  These are, incidentally, the same people who think the 4th amendment has something to do with not wearing a mask, that the world is approximately 6,000 years old, that global warming is a conspiracy involving George Soros, and  increasingly, that Bill Gates wants to vaccinate you with the Mark of the Beast. 

On 7/17/2020 at 4:29 PM, davidclt said:

And a bunch of what "the experts" might call "visible co-morbidities." But who needs experts when we have brilliant pundits to provide medical advice?

It never ceases to amaze me that most of the Kens and Karens of teh Intrawebs are, at minimum, pre-diabetic, just asking for heart failure, and severely emotionally dysregulated (it's like the Cluster A Olympics).  On second thought, given the behavioral health disturbances and double-think in play, that shouldn't surprise me at all.

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1 minute ago, Blue_Devil said:

Okay

So you’re saying that legacy Funyun got built floor to roof on its exterior in the same time as it took this project to build six elevator shaft floors? And that’s not a red flag?

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[Belk Place: Carolina Theater and Hotel Intercontinental]

14 minutes ago, Blue_Devil said:

I am sure your driveway guys know how to work around the tight constraints of this project. 

If you were to see my driveway, it’s more logistically challenging and took more concrete than this, so yeah, they did

 

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7 hours ago, Blue_Devil said:

I was told that work stopped on this forum! Could the internet have lied to me?

They’ve built six floors. Six elevator shaft floors. In four months. I could have hired the guys I hired  to do my driveway and they would have Gotten as much done in six hours.

i’m not in the “work stopped” camp; I am in the “judge me by what I do not what I say” camp, and this is 1,000,000% hedging. 
 

But, yeah It should totally take a decade to build a pencil tower.

[Belk Place: Carolina Theater and Hotel Intercontinental]

On 6/20/2020 at 12:48 PM, Yo Diaz! said:

I know we are all excited for the completion of this particular project I’m just fascinated by the negative AF posts with nothing confirmed.

Well, at the pace they're on, they'll be done with the elevator shaft in December 2021, so what's the worry?

Seriously, there's "its a small site" and "this kind of construction is new to Charlotte," and then there's "six whole elevator floors in four months; you really outdid yourself."

I will put not one but two dozen Krispy Kremes up that the hotel still isn't built at December 31, 2021.

[Belk Place: Carolina Theater and Hotel Intercontinental]

2 hours ago, KJHburg said:

does Bob the foreman know

Can we build it?

Yes we can  in ten years!

[Urban Rise => Suburban Decline]

2 hours ago, KJHburg said:

If work from home is become more prevalent, why live in an area like the NYC metro area with the highest property taxes and some of the highest property values in the country.  Everywhere I go in Charlotte I see NY NJ CT tags either we are an tourist hotspot or these are recent arrivals to the area.  I know from my personal experience it is the latter.  

I was joking with my CEO the other day that I was excited about Zooming during a working vacation this autumn.  From the Caribbean.  Thinking that, if work from home becomes not just my new norm but a permanent lifestyle, I might think extra hard about moving to the beach and staying in a hotel when I need to be in the office once every other week.  

Talked to one of my best friends this week, who lives in a different time zone, and asked if he'd consider hiring an exec who didn't wanna move but could do in person a few days a month and he said for the right person absolutely.  

There's a lot of privilege in this post, and I understand that, but if you told me I could spend $5k a year on flights and hotels and keep my kids' school situation stable while living in Maine during the summer I'd do it tomorrow.

[Republican National Convention in Charlotte]

Trump is a psychopath.  An APA, Robert Hare, PCL-R psychopath.  If he doesn't wanna come here, ok, if he does, ok I guess, but he is clinically insane.  This is so textbook of people with cluster b personality disorders it might as well be a caricature, but like truth being stranger than fiction, he's literally the embodiment of comorbid mental illness (PDs on top of organic brain disturbances)..

Come.  Don't come.  Don't care.  Charlotte should be a gray rock in the face of an abusive, incoherent, severely mentally ill individual trying to bully his way into waaaaahhhhhh.

[Ideas for Creating Culture, Temporary and Permanent, in Charlotte]

On 1/4/2020 at 3:46 PM, KJHburg said:

I've wandered around the finest museums on earth (including spending almost a week in the Louvre, having a girlfriend who was a big deal at Guggenheim, getting baked and getting kicked out of Rijksmusem in Amsterdam for getting "lost" and staying WAY past closing time, etc ad nauseam), and this is, despite its blurry quality (blows raspberry), exceptional.  Stop trying to be extra CLT; just be.  It's ok, when you make it you'll make it and everybody will know.  Just be.

In all seriousness, this is a great composition.  The picture quality sucks, but c'est la vie, c'est la guerre.  Or something.

[Charlotte area population statistics]

5 minutes ago, kermit said:

Makes me wonder if it is a mislabeled growth map.

In the parlance of the young people, map is trash. Iredell appears to be bigger than Gaston+Lincoln+Catawba combined. Lumberton is now apparently bigger than the Triad. Asheville is now 4x the size of Morganton.

/An attempt was made

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I do not now nor ever have I ever had any inside knowledge into any of these projects, but I know this:  the Masters of the Universe types I know (whose balls I break consantly but I am in point of fact very very close friends with half a dozen of them) are loving working from home right now.  You mean I don't have to wander down to LaSalle/Franklin/Wall Street and I can conduct all my business from my study?  I can go get lunch with that BumbleBabe/BumbleBro and not worry about running back to the office to be in another pointless meeting that could have been accomplished with a memo?  I can see my children more in the last two months than I've seen them in the last two years?  They're probably gonna decamp me from my Class A office building, or at most have me use a conference room on the rare occasion I absolutely have to be in the office?  That I'm gonna be judged significantly more on my production and significantly less on office politics and/or the fact that Chaz is an MD because his grandpa went to Harvard with Chet's grandpa?

Done and done.

I know this is a hotel, but regardless of if and when the economy comes back, people who occupy those downtown hotels and downtown office buildings are starting to realize en masse there are very few reasons to be in an office all day long and even fewer reasons to travel for business giving the ubiquity of Zoom.  Will this get built?  I dunno I don't know what drives the decision makers' decisions, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to be building a 400 foot hotel in a future where both employers and employees are waking up together to the fact that a TON of overhead expense and business travel was completely unnecessary in 2020, and that business as usual is dead dead dead.

[Ally Charlotte Center (f/k/a Tryon Place) - 26 floors - 427']

On 5/1/2020 at 12:55 PM, Miesian Corners said:

I'd have rather had a champagne supernova in the sky. This is merde on the ground.

Just don't look back in anger.  

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1 minute ago, Nick2 said:

Cool. I also had to Google "gild the lilly." Lmao 

LOL. Sorry, I'm old.  So, to further do as much, there's at least three golden ratios that I took a plumb line against with paint;  it's an outstanding composition at any rate and, I apologize that I didn't make myself plainer in the first place: that is a hell of a picture, even for a pro.

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Just now, Nick2 said:

Monster as in good or bad? I'm not a professional photographer so I can't tell. Lol

Monster as in good.  I'm sorry I assumed (as Steven Seagal warned me against) that "monster" was universal praise.  That's outstanding. 

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@Nick2 not trying to guild the lily, but that is a monster comp:

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22 minutes ago, QCxpat said:

Today 12:50 p.m. - view from E. Morehead St. across South Blvd. 

It's not that BOA HQ isn't a beautiful structure, nor that the WSOC web cam will ultimately be the picture by which 'murkah knows the WC, but I'm really into the idea that there are gonna be a lot of pics in the next few years in which the Legacy Bunion side of the city stands alone with BOA and Hearst barely or not even visible.  So, with that said, let me contradict myself and share a screen grab of a Carolina Panthers video making the rounds on social media.  Is dope:

 

 

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Three things that will survive COVID: roaches, twinkies, power lines.

Credit: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article241980351.html#storylink=bignews_related

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21 minutes ago, kermit said:

So how was Japan able to avoid the Zimbabwe scenario after a quarter century of massive QE?

Japan issues debt.  The vast majority of that debt is bought by the Japanese.  For now, getting the equivalent of 2% has kept investors relatively happy, so yields have remained, um, low?

But, twenty years from now, the interest on Japanese debt will be more than Japan's tax receipts, and long before then, crap's gonna hit the fan.  

Markets can stay irrational longer than we can remain solvent....

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How does that pic even make sense?  I know when I'm in a pencil tower that's abutted by two walls in the lobby I want nothing more than windows to... a wall?  

Did Lil' Jon design this tower?  It's ok you can tell me.  Till all skeet skeet skeet skeet skeet skeet tlll all skeet skeet skeet skeet (Belk Fam)