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My wife preemptively calls next month's music festival the "Loving Life Shooting". Asks her coworkers, "who's going to the Loving Life shooting in May?" It's actually a shame because the lineup is great and we would be going if it weren't uptown. Seems like every major uptown event has had a shooting recently and my wife was not at all willing to chance it. Even worse, every single friend I've asked has said the same thing "We would go if it wasn't uptown. Too many shootings. Too unsafe" Apologies for the topic digression

@kermit the developer has got to be sh!tting bricks at this point. right?!

Good thing NC outlawed design review boards otherwise the developers would have been unnecessarily financially burdened by having to do more than a 300' black wall. Think of the developers!

where is the hierarchy to this plan? Looks like a garbled mess

thats a little too close for comfort with that huge patio right there

would be curious to know how my fellow UPers feel about this. Can we do an emoji reaction poll? Thanks emoji = support public funding sad emoji = against public funding

why is the 276' tall building glowing red

My dog loves running back and forth through the pipe as my wife and I stand on either end calling his name over and over. Great fun for us and the pooch

Their other "restaurant concept" STIR is the exact same way. Menu is all over the place with no direction and certainly no quality. I swear almost everything comes out of a freezer. If STIR wasn't in their great location with the awesome outdoor space it too would be dead. Also, their drinks are complete a$$, and that's like their whole thing

Would you mind elaborating on this? I'm not familiar with the story but it sounds interesting and I love that building

haven't listened to the podcast but damn, that first quote makes him sound like a moron...among other choice adjectives that i'll refrain from using scared money don't make money, foo'

The Monarch Market folks did a great job making it look exactly like the renderings. It took me a second to figure out if it was a real photo or marketing rendering

thats a nice looking building, especially considering the current state of this once-forgotten corner

South end business park isn't really adjacent to Wilmore though. could he be talking about something else? Anyone know anything?

i know at least one oak fell on the building causing some significant damage