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  1. CLT Development
    Don't be sad, you'll then see a 16 floor building instead of a 6 floor one!
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    Meanwhile I had maybe the best uptown experience I've had in ages on Saturday. Granted it was during the day.
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    Excuse the crudeness of this drawing but This is how I'd fix this space. 1. Grey – Reduce the street to 2 lanes and give the rest back to sidewalks. The park benches are currently 12-18 inches from an active roadway, nobody is going to feel comfortable enough to use these. 2. Blue – Add in half-walls with low light vegetation that shield enlarged outdoor dining spaces, As well as covered overhangs that add dimension to the block 3. Pink – Inset the retail spaces by 5-8 feet, and put in garage doors that can open the space more to the outdoors. 4. Yellow – This needs to be all protected and activated outdoor space 5. Green – These facades need more variation. At this point, I guess paint at this point is about as good as we could do.
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    Givin real 2005 old folks home vibes.
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    It's because the Ally retail was designed by an architecture firm that focused on creating interesting and focused retail, created a merchandising strategy for the units, and just made highly desirable spaces. They used some of Charlotte's best design teams, and brought in Asana Partners, who is a national leader in retail management and programming. Legacy Union used the same architecture firm to design its core and shell as its retail spaces. There was no extra thought. I mean just look at it. • The sidewalks are tiny on Church, and leave no space for outdoor seating, something that is pretty much vital in 2024. • The retail on Church St is surrounded by an entrance and an exit to the parking deck. It's chaotic for street life. People are forever queuing in and out, with a constant backup of exhaust-spewing cars. • Places, where there could have been outdoor seating, were turned into large permanent planter areas. • Thanks to the lack of setbacks, and the enormous pedestrian tube the block is always in shadow. • There is no character or defining characteristic to the retail facades. • I've heard that the spaces weren't properly set up for full service restaurants, which is likely the ideal tenant. A broker recently said to me "no, I wouldn't even try to fix those spaces, they are unfixable."
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    I'd say its been maybe 3 weeks old, I work a block from here and saw it for the first time last week, I'd say it has been 3 weeks since I intentionally walked past it.
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    Big time agree. Great massing. SO MANY WINDOWS>
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    It was always all placeholders, but I'm saying that the apartment tower in those renderings are also a placeholder. Jefferson Apartment Group dropped out of the project so they don't have a developer any longer unless @Conformity has better information!
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    Its a placeholder, considering that they don't even have a residential partner any longer.
  10. CLT Development
    I would imagine this includes the ramp that goes down to Cullman Avenue, which is going to be hugely expensive.
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    It went 20, 17 and is now 14
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    I would imagine that any park would be framed by buildings and closest to Morhead. There's no point to building a park hewn in by highways that cannot be crossed. I will also mention that I asked Meck Parks to push for more than 2.5 acres, not that my voice carries THAT much weight.
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    Yes plus all that. I don't mean JUST for training camp.
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    I believe they are only being required to have a 2.5 acre park, per my conversation with Meck Parks, I hope they do more. As far as freeway noise goes, it only annoys my wife when I'm on my AirPods on the phone with her, otherwise it's not that big of a nuisance.
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    It's for Training camp most likely, and maybe so team can have option to be closer when the team bus leaves for the airport.
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    I'm honestly more excited for this project than anything else. Such a step forward architecturally for Charlotte in my opinion.
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    I most certainly did not add a whole paragraph in response after you posted. I posted and said to myself"let me add a few things, grabbed a quote, spent time reading, and then added to make sure I was giving completely factual information. I'm not here, waiting with bated breath to see your compelling addition to the conversation MothBeast. I'm a busy person, and I multitask and will come back and edit posts when I have time (like 30 seconds later) that did not include refreshing to see if you responded. No, I never said that. I just said what an actual neighborhood name was, stated its boundaries that are accepted by the city we live in, and gave the reasoning why I am passionate about that naming convention. I stated that Optimist Park has a name, with defined boundaries as given to it in the 1980s. NoDa, also has defined boundaries as made in the neighborhood charter by the NoDa NBA, a board to which I sit. If you would like Villa Heights to change its boundaries take it up with Steve Sanders and VHCO and have them amend the establishing documents of their organization. From their community website. I tried to defuse this asinine conversation by taking the high road and saying "you know what you can consider it what ever you will. I doesn't really change my life at all." but hey you doubled down, so I'm back. This site is miserable sometimes.
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    This is something I scream into the void often.
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    I would also say that NoDa has made a name for itself and has thus established itself in history. Optimist Park has had no such opportunity, other than being one of Jimmy Carter's legacies with his extensive work with Habitat for Humanity
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    huh, I definitely did not add any content after you replied... and to claim this is absolutely not in good faith. I corrected something I said that was not factually accurate to make sure that I was providing the right information. I did not see a reply from you, and frankly this is a stupid and fruitless argument and I think we can all agree that neighborhood lines are arbitrary and in no way definitive, and are based on how you define where you live.
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    North Charlotte was its own town that was annexed into Charlotte in parts in 1907, 1928 and 1949. So then if you want to be historical, we will call Optimist Park Phifer Heights, which also emcompassed Belmont, Villa Heights and Plaza HIlls.
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    No I addressed your point head-on, you said my info was from, "google?" Personally, I'm trying to preserve the name of a couple of neighborhoods that are significant to Charlotte's history. "Belmont-Villa Heights-Optimist Park area has become the city's most important early working-class residential district. Its streets of humble homes are a reminder of the thousands of laborers who helped build up Charlotte to be the largest city in the Carolinas by 1930." as Tom Hanchett said. There is a deep history in these areas and the establishment of Optimist Park and the large-scale investment by Jimmy Carter and Habitat for Humanity brought housing low-cost housing for many Black families, in a neighborhood that was largely segregated for much of its existence. The whole reason The Mill District name has not been able to take off is there is still so much to reconcile because the mill villages we celebrate were exclusively white-only largely until the closing of those mills.
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    Based on what the Historic Landmarks Commission, Tom Hanchett, the city of Charlotte, UNCC Urban Institution and the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library consider it.
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    LOL, disagree all you ant but thats literally the neighborhood lines. You called Optimist Hall the center of Optimist Park but it was a mill sheathed in blue corrugated metal additions for 30+ years, it hasn't been a catalyst for any neighborhood in probably 70 years.
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    No it goes all the way to Matheson. 13th to Jordan, Freight tacks to N. Davidson
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