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I imagine it is part of the Monroe Rd/ Rama intersection improvement project. https://charlottenc.gov/Projects/Documents/U-5805_IRM_Optimized.pdf

I have tried to work with Duke about burying the lines on a few projects, but it's incredibly difficult to work with them and prohibitively expensive. The last time I tried to do this, I was quoted around $150,000 to burry a ~400' section of overhead line. And that was just Duke's price. It was another ~$200k from AT&T and another ~100k from Spectrum. We just didn't have it in the budget to spend more than $450k just to burry some overhead lines. Even if we were doing the type of project that could cover this, Duke is very reluctant to do it. One of the reasons I have been told is that it's a safety issue. For the vast majority of Duke's utility poles, the electricity runs from the overhead line to the underground line (where you start to burry the line). It is a comparatively rare situation to have the electricity run from the underground line to the overhead line (where the buried line ends). If there is an issue with a line (storm debris mostly), then the linemen who are out there are very familiar with expecting the live side of the line to be coming from overhead going down the pole, but are not as familiar with the underground side going up the pole being the live side. There are many 'holes' in this excuse, but that is just what I've been told by Duke.

Do you have a siteplan for this? I've been hearing about the townhomes and apartments as well, but It's not currently zoned for that. From what I can see, you could get some office on that site and at most 21 residential units. And there's no active rezoning. Just curious what the plan is

There were some legal issues with the Cherry neighborhood that got figured out about 2 years ago. I heard they are just waiting on an anchor tenant to start the building.

I looked on Polaris. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority bought about 97 acres at the end of 2019. The parcel includes the land that Tenders sits on. I haven't seen anything to indicate that it is actually closing, but since it sits on Atrium's land, I would think the possibility is fairly high.

That's correct. Tenders was the concept restaurant for the PDQ chain. Joe Douglas started 131 Main, Tenders, and Cowboy (all right in the same area), then Tenders was franchised and turned into PDQ. Similar to what Frank Scibelli (Mama Ricotta's, Midwood Smokehouse, Paco's tacos, Bad Daddy's Burgers, etc) did with Bad Daddy's, except the name stayed the same.

Sounds like one of my favorite places to get a chicken sandwich might be closing down soon (Tenders). While it's not quite as good as when it first opened, it's still a good sandwich and they have a bunch of different sauces to put on it. I guess I'll have to go to PDQ now to scratch that itch even if it's not quite the same.

From a news article about the noise complaints in June 2019...

You can also press the 'Escape' key as soon as just the words load. That stops the rest of the page from loading, including the paywall.

^ Yes, they are planning on connecting those areas. The greenway will pass under Independence through one of the culverts. The greenway itself will be on the Chantilly side once it passes under Independence. I think they should be starting construction on it relatively soon (in the next year or so).

They could use the dirt pile for fill dirt as the project progresses. Things like backfill around small walls, bringing up sidewalks/parking areas/green space to sub-grade, etc. They have it covered because depending on what kind of dirt it is, if it gets wet, it turns into a nasty clumpy mud that you cant get any compaction on. If that happens, you either haul it off somewhere else, or spread it out and hope it dries out before it rains again (not a good plan this time of year).

If you have miles with AA, you can find round trip tickets to Belize for 25K miles per person. You can find credit cards that will get you 3 tickets (75K points) just for signing up (and spending the required amount) if you don't already have the miles.

What is the benefit to a 11,500' or 12,500' runway over a 10,000' runway? Which planes can land on a 11,500' runway, but not a 10,000' runway? I'm guessing it's just the upper end of the "heavies," right? Like the A380, and the 747-400 (and -8).

It looks like they are starting construction again on the Hawthorne bridge. I saw some workers out there over the past couple of days and they have a "Nightly Closure" sign up on Independence. Does anyone know anything more about this?

According to one of the neighbors, they are planning on raising the site by 5 feet or so to bring it out of the floodplain