Tyrone Wiggum

NM I see a bunch of people beat me to the punch

South End would need to have an actual mid rise first; Lowe's is the first mid rise to be built; I'm sure there's more to come but this thread having existed for over 10 years without an actual mid rise is like Charlotte calling itself "World Class" when I was a kid....

Hornets have the eighth worst record in basketball since MJ bought the team, and without looking it up Kemba is the only All Star he's drafted. Hornets traded Tobias Harris (whoops), passed on Kawhi, Klay, Jimmy Buckets, Dame, Andre Drummond, Draymond, Giannis, Jokic, and Donovan Mitchell, and have never drafted - during Jordan's ownership - a single rookie to make the all-rookie first team. This was the worst possible outcome if Kemba goes with no compensation, but it's par for the course. Boston had the Curse of the Bambino, Charlotte has the Curse of the Mamba.

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Childress Klein?

Oh sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut. Gubnor Roy is on site. This gonna be a jam! Coke. Owed me. Now. It takes less time to take an appendix out. Let's get on with it plz

Oh stop being a sourpuss; this is easily the peppiest porn music I've ever heard. I mean, if I knew what porn music sounded like. That's what I think it sounds like. Yeah, that's the ticket! Charlotte Regional Business Development Corporation thingy would like to invite you to the 1986 AVN Awards Show!

Here's the rendering. Legacy Union is no longer cancelled:

Lately, I been thinking, I want you to be happier:

Apply directly to asshole!

Pricipal . Caught say of school that has stoped Handstandsing " See, told ya so" Is HE dead or not. CNN Says yes. St Pete Times Looking for chads-OR-"hello I am write single to salute and wait for answer again"

I heard BB&T is going to build a tower so ugly we'll be wondering how we ever shat on LU1 so hard. Supposedly, Kelly King is enamored with the beloved grayish-black glass cardboard box design. And, at 1,080 feet - in honor of BB&T's leadership's obsession with Atlas Shrugged and objectivism - Charlotte will be stuck with an ugly new tallest that dominates the skyline till global warming makes The Southeast mostly uninhabitable.

So the biggest Ponzi Schemes of this decade: 1) Theranos - jumping up and down for years screaming that, if you've ever been in a lab, the idea that a box smaller than a budget copy machine could do meaningful blood work is a joke, had almost nobody saying the emperor had no clothes (this will be important in a sec). That on top of the fact that Holmes' entire premise was built on her dislike of needles, and that even if you spike a critical lab Theranos can't help you because they don't do imaging and biopsies that would actually confirm a diagnosis (which don't cost $3, which, by the way is what Medicare already pays for basic lab work (BMP/CMP/CBC/D-Dimer/Pro Time/etc), but I digress); 2) Tesla - virtually all of Musk's cash flow comes from deposits on vehicles he hasn't made and/or new equity/debt offerings. There's IP value there, but little else. Still doesn't stop people from pumping billions of dollars a year into a company that by any other metric is not a going concern; 3) MLS Soccer - the TV deal is $90m versus the NFL's deal of $255m, even though the NFL draws 30-60x as many viewers for a given game. That math is entirely unsustainable, and ESPN/Fox/Univision bet on the come in an epic fail of epic fails. It's a garbage product that is entirely unsustainable - baseball, already a regional sport, will become a Regional SportTM when its current tv deal expires - from a financial perspective, and the only way they've stayed afloat is the Tesla/Theranos model of bilking the Greater Fool. Tepper's no dummy, and the upside COULD be like investing in Amazon in 2001, but the downside could be Pets.com. Do you throw $200m at something that might be worth $2b in twenty years but could also be worth zero a lot sooner? Uber doesn't cash flow either, and though its stock price has fallen it's stabilized at $40 for god knows what reason. MLS isn't a game changer like Theranos or Amazon or Tesla; like Uber, it's got massive barriers to entry with tons of competition and no funding mechanism that lets it continue operations outside of debt/equity offerings. MLS is a hood ornament, and if we get it or don't, save this post for ten years from now and I'm willing to bet a dozen dozen donuts MLS is significantly smaller with a smaller cultural impact than golf without Tiger.

/oblig

Watch yourself or you're gonna get a downvote! Go back and read my post; I'm in no way suggesting that Charlotte is as dense as just about any other top 30 population US city (it may be more than a few but I'm not looking it up). What I WAS saying is that the tiny little sliver that is uptown has about as many residents as The Loop, at least according to the census bureau. Parts of north Charlotte have about as many residents as Podunk, and when you come down 16 I'm always amazed by the distance one covers between the city limits and 85 where it looks like you're driving on 321 between the Catawba River and Lenoir as opposed to one of top 20 city limit populations in the country. I've posted it before and I'll post it again: this was my view at my last address in ChiCity, so it's not lost on me that Charlotte ain't Chicago, nor that you could fit all of CLT's buildings taller than 100 feet in this pic and have lots of empty space. But, Uptown is thriving and growing and it's not unreasonable to compare inside 277 to inside The Loop PURELY on number of residents. Would I rather live inside the loop (or on the edge in Greektown)? Ayup, but it's just populations we're comparing for a tiny piece of each city. Now if you'll excuse me, I must retire to my fainting couch to sleep off this indignation.

Dense might be a stretch. But, by way of comparison, a few years ago The Loop had approximately the same population as Uptown does now. Granted, there have been condos going up like crazy east of 90. OTOH, the farthest west neighborhood of Chi (Austin) has 14k people/mi^2, and the first west suburb (Oak Park) has 12k/mi^2. For me that's the biggest difference: all the open undeveloped and underdeveloped parts of the 704. Charlotte has self-identified as world class for decades without ever really being there. But, there's a lot of people living uptown and the density is on par with any other American city not NYC, and that's not just boosterism. Take credit where credit is due!

So they contribute literally 1/10 of 1% of their annual revenues to affordable housing. Where would we be without them? THANKS BE UNTO GOD FOR THEIR UNSPEAKABLE GIFT. /not directed at your KJH, but that's kind of deplorable.

Oh it's definitely cheap, but good? I remember when I moved to midtown - about four blocks from The Varsity - that was one of the first places I hit the weekend I moved in. Meh is generous. But, maybe I'm a burger snob, so since I got there first when the fam came down we went there again and even the kids were just meh. Having a Five Guys and The Vortex in the same couple of minute walk footprint didn't do Varsity any favors either. It's famous, I'm just not sure why any more. It kind reminds me of MJ's in Chicago; friends and family would come to visit and wanna go there and I'd go because it absolutely was a place to see and be seen, but the food? Meh. Now, a famous burger place that absolutely lives up to its reputation? The original Kuma's. Eating an Anger Burger while drinking cheap suds with Megadeth blasting at 120 decibels is definitely a jam, and I'm not exactly the Heavy Metal demo. Anywell, if we do get a BB&T tower out of this, I'd settle for Meh; as I've beaten to death, BB&T is responsible for some of the ugliest architecture in the country, so to get something that isn't an abomination as unto the Lord would be a welcome change.

There's a lot to unpack here but this take is just dead wrong.

UNC/CHS would have been orders of magnitude better, only certain people decided having a dick measuring contest made more sense than, ya know, having the chance to build one of the largest integrated healthcare systems (atrium is already big, but this would have been a game changer) in the country AND a de novo med school that would have been top 25 in under a decade. BG is still a world class teaching hospital and its practitioners are incredibly gifted, but walking out of residency staring down $300k in student loan debt is a motherfudgeer no matter how many zeroes are at the end of the rainbow. UNC is the best deal on earth and it’s a shame that the measuring sticks impeded improving the state’s public health (also, to bury the lede, I’m not sure it would have made it past antitrust, but we deserved the chance to find out).

West to East on 16 coming in is jarring, even and up to getting onto 74; ain’t a damn thing for miles. There may be something to extending the urban boundaries, but Charlotte has a ton of land that’s underdeveloped, undeveloped, or underutilized. Which is why Raleigh deserves all the money and Sarah Palin is automatically mayor of Charlotte

You sound salty. Maybe even a little pissed. Perhaps a walk outside would be cathartic. Smell the air. Seriously, try me tho