[SouthEnd "Gold District"]

2 hours ago, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:

And yet, somehow, nobody has found Waldo.

I thought I saw him duck into the Uptown Cabaret to cool his heels after a long day of surveying work in that vicinity the other week.

[First Ward Urban Village / North Tryon Vision Plan]

2 hours ago, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:

The county doesn't plan on even starting receiving RFPs for  Hal Marshall until Brooklyn Village and 6th and Tryon are well under way.

How unfortunate for the area.  Is the idea to avoid flooding the market, or is needing to find new space for county services the driving factor?

[The State of Higher Education in Charlotte]

40 minutes ago, KJHburg said:

I think as well it will be near the main campus but could be uptown.  Wake Forest School of Medicine is not located right at Baptist Hospital  in Winston so off site is doable.   It would be nice to locate in First Ward somewhere but land costs maybe prohibitive.  

[Said with complete naivete] Would this not be a potential use for the Hal Marshall blocks?

[The Good News Report]

On 1/15/2019 at 9:48 AM, KJHburg said:

3 major Charlotte financial firms announced $70 Million in affordable housing money.  Bank of America, Ally Bank and Barings all committed. 

https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2019/01/15/bofa-ally-financial-and-barings-to-invest-70m-plus.html?ana=e_me_set1&s=newsletter&ed=2019-01-15&u=oAaDx%2B74FoP4qOJ%2By4AU6dhJPpc&t=1547563488&j=86059101

Note from Bank of America

""A spokeswoman for Bank of America declined to comment on specifics about the land earmarked for donation, except that it will be in the North Tryon district to support affordable housing in uptown. BofA has land holdings along North Tryon and is a stakeholder in redevelopment projects on that corridor, including the Seventh and Tryon plan, which calls for affordable units.""

Looks like the other North Tryon donation will be the lot next to the Ballet and the McColl Center: https://www.wfae.org/post/bofa-donate-uptown-land-worth-7m-affordable-housing#stream/0

With Edwin Towers, Booth Gardens and Tryon House Apartments, it seems like this little area will have quite a concentration of below-market housing in a putatively high-income area by Charlotte standards.