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Counterpoint: who gives a crap. Whatever it takes them to get shovels in the dirt faster, do it. Rubber stamp every application. No need to look a gift horse in the mouth

Just dropping in from Raleigh to say this would be the biggest boost to my use of the rail to Charlotte. I don’t give a rip if the ticketing office is a pup tent, as long as it isn’t in the middle of nowhere with zero transit or pedestrian safety like the current station.

What is in the foreground of this picture? I thought the project booked for that lot was dead. Is that wrong?

points for enthusiasm but the whole thing is kind of a non-starter. I don’t think I’m being a cynic by saying that a minor league soccer stadium in Mauldin probably won’t make money. Very few publicly funded major league stadiums in major metros actually make money. It just never really made a whole lot of sense

I am really trying to understand how this makes sense and am drawing a blank. He will greedily use his own money instead of asking the city put it up? I’m a small sample size but I get the sense that developers are more popular when they don’t use public money.

Wow, a Hughes development with a large publicly funded anchor. What a novel concept!

**L’Internationale intensifies**

When I was a kid and my parents asked me to do something, I was always “just about to do it.” Take that with a grain of salt

I’m assuming this means there has been a development in the developer’s… um… legal troubles

The thing about Trump idiots is that other than being puerile, unoriginal, and inconsistent, they are also deeply, shockingly stupid

Speaking personally, I hate it because it looks like someone went to Florence, smoked crack, and then tried to recreate it by building a shopping mall. I know Phil Hughes has some weird Italian thing but this is taking it a little far. Why are the trying to replicate a ruin? I’m fairly certain this will end up looking more like a Tanger outlet mall but hey, go nuts

Looks dumb!

That was also famously lauded at the time as one of the most egregious public cash grabs in which Cobb County got fleeced, so, um, maybe not the best analogy

Any updates?

Did this ever get vertical construction started