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8 hours ago, CarolinaDaydreamin said:
I hope Tepper buys and develops that block for the Panthers, could easily still have high rise office or hotel, but needs someone besides LH to develop some stadium facing retail.
Totally agree. This is the best use for that site & I don’t think it’s close. Even better if he can buy up some of the land just to the west of BofA Stadium for an MLS stadium, then Old DE site for this. Perhaps even combine an entertainment complex with the city’s desired 1,000 room hotel. That’s close enough to the CC
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4 minutes ago, Dale said:
OKC of course has a downtown streetcar system. Going forward, the mayor is pushing BRT. Rail purists are alarmed. But the mayor assures, “Yeah, But BRT feels like a train!”
I get he's saying that to appease rail purists but my attitude is, who cares if it *feels* like a train as long as it *functions* like a train i.e. with the same schedule reliability? You can't get that with an ordinary city bus but you definitely can with BRT. Plus as I alluded to, BRT acts like a try & buy for LR/Streetcars. If you really like it but feel a train would enhance, just fill in the BRT lanes with rail infrastructure later on.
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21 minutes ago, KJHburg said:
Imagine when DEC2 fills that lot. Certain corners uptown could have the look of Midtown Manhattan or Chicago. So dense.
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25 minutes ago, SgtCampsalot said:Man, give us fancy comfortable, quiet busses that have great frequency, and official looking bus stops, and I think more people would be happier than they all think they would.
Yeah I personally think BRT that has the scheduling functionality of LR is superior. Cheaper & quicker to build, serves the same purpose. Added benefit of relatively easy conversion to LR if you really find you want it. Also much easier/cheaper to maintain & replace rolling stock & general infrastructure.
LR over BRT often comes down to vanity. Rail seems more cosmopolitan so city leaders favor it. They want the pics with a train.-
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26 minutes ago, Dale said:
Perhaps Nashville is an outlier. It has as close to zero transit as any of Charlotte’s peer cities. It has one sorely underused (and antiquated) commuter rail line. And the bus service is seeing crippling cuts. The transportation thread, on Nashville UP, is essentially a scooter thread.
This stunned me about Nashville. They had a very ambitious, perhaps too ambitious LR/BRT plan & it was overwhelmingly rejected. Idk if there’s a city in the US that seems to hate mass transit more than Nashville.
At least CLT has a vision. Personally I suspect it will mostly come to fruition as BRT rather than LR but better than nothing
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22 minutes ago, CarolinaDaydreamin said:
I live in Atlanta and my main regret of living here is only going to 1 or 2 Panthers and Hornets games in Charlotte per year. I see more Hornets games in Atlanta than Charlotte
Once I’m down there I’m probably gonna get a partial season ticket plan. Like a weekend package or something, need to check what they offer. Wanna hit up 2 games a month regardless. First team I ever chose on my own when I was like 6 yo. I’m not huge on the NFL, in terms of a specific team, mostly watch RedZone so I can see myself adopting the Panthers. I love Cam, prob my fav QB. Hornets are my childhood though, love that NBA came out with the Team Pass now
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24 minutes ago, CLT_sc said:
If that area is your preference, I think you will have a lot of choices.
Okay cool. I think maybe I misjudged what people consider to be the "wealthy" part of the city. I really don't need to be up in the SouthPark or Myers Park area at all. I'm fine being on the southern fringes of the city or in some of the actual suburbs like Matthews. Maybe I'll regret it if I get a job locally but at least for the beginning I'll be working from home. Can't imagine I'll go downtown/uptown except to go to Hornets & probably some Knights games on weekends. Checking them out next month when I'm there actually, first Knights game.
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34 minutes ago, CarolinaDaydreamin said:
This is off topic as hell, but why would Nashville be ahead of CLT? They have 3 professional sports teams with the new MLS team vs. 2 in Charlotte and Charlotte is bigger, growing faster and has a much larger corporate presence. Really don't know why they are mentioned in every conversation.
I think MLB would want to go farther from Atlanta. I really don’t think Nashville is very close either though. I think it’s pretty much MTL & Portland for sure.
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I haven't even looked up there tbh. Really below Pineville-Matthews road is where I've looked. Providence & Ardrey Kell school zones as well as Matthews & a bit in Weddington & Waxhaw like I said. But preference is Charlotte below Pineville-Matthews Rd or town of Matthews.
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5 minutes ago, Matthew.Brendan said:
Right, that's the trade off.... go further out and it gets cheaper
Still, I understand the huge upgrade it will be coming from NJ. Do you have a time frame yet for your move? I used to live in Matthews btw, off Sam Newell / Margaret Wallace. I regret selling the house, should have kept it.
Yeah, next summer. My wife is a teacher & after next summer she qualifies for her pension as she will have been working for 10 years. So it doesn't make sense to move now. But I have a 2 year old so we want to get him down there for pre-school. We'll start looking for a house in the spring & put ours' on the market. Hope to move July or August at which point I can start working remote. She might go back to work part time once our son is in kindergarten but I'd be fine supporting us on just my salary down there. She has a cert in speech therapy & 1 on 1 therapy with disabled children (she's a special ed teacher) so she could work part time 1 on 1 with students if she wants to.
That's another reason we wanted to move south, our son. Aside from the cost, frankly, people up here are just assholes. I never realized it growing up but once I started travelling around the country more, outside of Northeast & California, I realized the southeast & midwest are just such nicer environments.-
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Just now, Matthew.Brendan said:
Yeah it really comes down to the ambiguity of what "wealthy" means to a person. You can find plenty of nice homes for $300-400k no problem, but it will vary pretty wildly all over Charlotte as to what you get for that money. Age of house, neighborhood, size, yard etc. There's practically nothing available in "South Charlotte" for <$400k (from a super quick search). I'm sure you can find deals but that's why they get snapped up some quick when something does come along.
Okay I wonder if Zillow is wrong then. I found a few between 350-400 in the Sardis area & just over the line in Matthews proper, then a bunch down around Blakeney for even cheaper, 275-350 range. I realize that's not in my dream area but it looks pretty nice. Anything with more than 2 bedrooms either a deck or front porch & not attached to other houses is a massive upgrade for me. Obviously would care about the safety of the neighborhood & quality of schools but I'm not super picky in terms of size/style of house.
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17 minutes ago, Matthew.Brendan said:
If you think you're going to find a house in the "wealthy" parts of Charlotte for $350k.... good luck.
Seeing them on the real estate sites and when I go down there for between that & 4. IDK if those are literally the wealthy parts, but they're at least the nice parts where I always read people complaining about the absurdly high housing prices. Unless the real estate sites are wrong, or there's another, much more expensive part of the city I haven't found yet. I've looked all over southeast Charlotte, bit in Waxhaw but I think that's probably a bit too rural for my taste, Matthews, bit in Weddington but those are quite a bit more expensive, and then a little up in Huntersville & Cornelius. Don't see too much in Davidson in my preferred range either. The other thing about down there is with your low property taxes, the actual mortgage payments are so much lower for obvious reasons. Your taxes down there are less than 1/3 what I pay and from what I can tell, most of your public schools are just as good.
Going down in August for a few days, going to spend a couple of nights in Pinehurst but then a couple in Charlotte and going to do like a grand tour of the area, every neighborhood we think might fit. Truthfully, prior I've really only been downtown & the area around where the Coliseum was but I haven't been down there since I think 2001. Last time I was downtown was March though. -
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It’s crazy the idea of wealthy in different parts of the country. I live now in NJ in a $450k 2 bedroom townhouse with 11k property taxes a year. I look at the homes in the “wealthy,” parts of the CLT area & they’re 75k to 100k cheaper than mine with a real yard & 3 more bedrooms. Those homes would be $2 million in my town. Btw I’m not bragging either I hate where I live, it’s so impractical. Hence why I’m moving. My friend moved to GA last year for work & has since said he doesn’t understand why anyone would live in the Northeast. Purely just not knowing better. I used to go to CLT as a kid b/c my dad would go on business so I’d get him to take me & bring me to Hornets games (been a fan since 91). Soon as we decided to head South, wife wanted Nashville but I sold her on CLT
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Cool. How’s the bar situation in Matthews? Specifically the sports bars?
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I’m looking in the Sardis area of southeast Charlotte & Matthews proper. Really the Providence High school zone which covers parts of both. To the newer arrivals how do you like it? Even if I land on the Charlotte side of the line, I’d imagine Matthews will be my closest town center so curious b/c it looks really nice.
Somewhat related, do you think Char-Meck will ever go the route of Nashville-Davidson & consolidate or partially consolidate?
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3 hours ago, Skyybutter said:
Here here! MLB. Been hearing MLB is ten years down the road since 1990.... Does MLB not realize the potential.... no team between DC and urghh ATL. Granted, Braves fans in the Carolinas and Tennessee won't budge. But NC and say Spartanburg, some if CAE and some of S.VA...would surely support a Charlotte MLB team?? The triangle is such a hodge podge of transplants you would likely win native NC'ers. Anywho. Its been yet another 10 years and nothing.
Only way I see CLT getting an MLB team is if the Tampa ballpark deal collapses again and the Rays move. That's a very real possibility btw. I think for expansion, Portland & Montreal are all but a lock, & if Montreal falls through I think Nashville or Austin would be ahead of CLT. Going down in August though to Pinehurst & spending a night in CLT, first time I've been not during basketball season, & I'm really excited to go to a Knights game. Ballpark looks beautiful, I've only seen it from the outside. Be happy with the Knights, MiLB is so underrated.
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I’ve seen people invoking Atlanta & Houston. But you know what this absolutely reminds me of? The Domain in Austin. If the renderings end up true to life it even looks a bit like The Domain as well.
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1 minute ago, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:
Also knows as the last 5 or 6 pages of discussion lol
My bad
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LU3 aka Honeywell HQ, found on skyscrapercity.com, came to there via Biz Journal.
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15 minutes ago, JorgiPorgi said:
On a shorter scale, Nashville has expanded quite a bit.
Oh yeah Nashville has a ton on the horizon too. u/c & about to start. Nashville Yards will change the entire look of downtown
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1 hour ago, Crucial_Infra said:
^150m+ skyscrapers built since 1990
New York 167
Chicago 71
Miami 58
Las Vegas 14
Houston 13
Los Angeles 12
Seattle 12
Philadelphia 11
Atlanta 10
San Francisco 10
Boston 8
Austin 6
Charlotte 5
Minneapolis 3
Atlantic City 2
Baltimore 2
Dallas 2
Denver 2
Nashville 2
San Diego 2
Tampa 2
Cleveland 1
Columbus 1
Cincinnati 1
Detroit 1
Des Moines 1
Hartford 1
Indianapolis 1
Jacksonville 1
Ft Lauderdale 1
Louisville 1
Milwaukee 1
Mobile 1
Oklahoma City 1
Omaha 1
Pittsburgh 1
Portland 1
Raleigh 1
St Louis 1
Virginia Beach 1
Source: The Skyscraper Center
I wasn't necessarily talking about just numbers of buildings built, but just the look in general. 5 large buildings in Charlotte changes the skyline. In NYC, you wouldn't really notice. Only the newer stuff of the past 5 years in NYC is really having an impact. Looking at that list and looking at then v now, I'd say Miami & Austin are both leaps and bounds more changed than Charlotte, but I'd put Charlotte at 3rd.
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Thank you. That's a very good point. Didn't even think of it that way. She was all about Nashville and I said f- no, I'm not cowering in the basement every spring and fall, then she said Atlanta and I though, no, too cliche, then was like, I went to CLT a handful of times as a kid for Hornets games and it seemed very nice, let's check it out. She's in love with it now, as am I. I have the go ahead to work remote starting next summer so assuming we can find the right house, I told her to quit her job and lets go then. Looking in South Charlotte in either the Providence or Ardrey Kell high school zones. We looked up in Huntersville & Cornelius as well as out in Waxhaw but decided we want to be in the city proper & south side since we plan on a lot of weekends down in Charleston.
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I can probably speak to this a bit. Currently live in NJ, but moving to Charlotte next summer (sorry). The perception from people I've told of my pending move is, "smaller Atlanta," which is ironic given that in terms of city proper, Charlotte is much bigger.
Most of the people I know up here moving to the South are either heading for ATL, Nashville, or the Research Triangle, specifically Cary aka Concentrated Area of Relocated Yankees. I only picked Charlotte because I grew up a massive Hornets fan due to the same guy I picked my screen name here for, so when my wife and I decided we were going to follow so many other high tax refugees to the "New South," I suggested CLT because I'd made a few trips there, loved it, and my wife's pick of Nashville has too many tornadoes.
But from my experience, it's not really on the national radar, at least not compared to Nashville & Atlanta. Which I'm sure will relieve a lot of you. Again, I apologize for my pending relocation, I'm being chased out of my own town by Brooklyn colonists, who themselves had chased people out of Brooklyn when they came from God knows where. I have to get out of the Northeast though, it sucks up here.-
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1 hour ago, KJHburg said:
Throwback Tuesday and skyline shot from the mid 1970s. As signage is being talked about elsewhere on UP look at the signs in this postcard from my vault. There is a big NCNB, big ACC (American Commercial Credit) and big Jefferson First Union signage on the buildings.
With the exception of probably Austin, has any other city transformed it's skyline in the last 30 years like Charlotte? Maybe Miami?
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Still, I understand the huge upgrade it will be coming from NJ. Do you have a time frame yet for your move? I used to live in Matthews btw, off Sam Newell / Margaret Wallace. I regret selling the house, should have kept it.
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I’ve driven by the NJ campus many times. The town is beautiful but the campus itself basically looks like it’s out of the film Office Space. They’ll attract much younger talent in CLT, in NJ the area is very suburban & more family oriented, just about too far from NYC/Jersey City/Hoboken to attract Millennial reverse commuters. Of course they’ll also save a boatload in taxes.