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https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/development/article264947589.html https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/development/article264947589.html The 250-room Intercontinental Hotel will restart construction, likely in the fall, foundation president and CEO Michael Marsicano said during a Thursday afternoon Charlotte Center City Partners board meeting. Construction on the upscale hotel, which will sit above the theater, was indefinitely paused last year, the Charlotte Observer reported at the time. Attempts to reach the Australia-based hotel developer Friday were not immediately successful.

Hard to see, but 5 construction cranes in this picture. Can see 7 from total from here now.

https://charlotteledger.substack.com/p/a-stalled-north-tryon-project-restarts Never going to be built. At least the Ellis hides most of it.

https://charlotte.axios.com/287336/new-office-development-to-be-built-next-to-optimist-park/#:~:text=Charlotte-based White Point Partners,Brevard at the Belmont intersection.

It'll be and running by Monday

Add dedicated tram lane where possible, give signal priority to trams, enforce and have hefty fines for blocking tracks, and at a minimum double the amount of trams. Unless the city does this then, to me, this was a huge waste of money and more people could have been served with the city simply buying 10 to 15 articulated E buses to run the same route.

Why can't the city just have a dedicated tram lane where possible through uptown?

It is truly a terrible thing to ask for "quality" architecture from developers these days. The Ellis would've looked dated in 1980. Buildings like this are completely devoid of any architectural character and are simply not worth saving. 30 years from now this building might be razed for a new development simply because nobody cares about it. Just look at JPM'S new office in NYC. They tore down a building only 60 years old to build a new tower. People simply do not care about poorly designed Buildings, and the Ellis is simply a monstrosity.

The Ellis is perhaps the most hideous highrise built in America this millennium. It is an embarrassment for the city of Charlotte and needs to be razed. The Soviet Union wouldn't have allowed such horrible architecture.