[SouthEnd "Gold District"]

Looks like Providence group took owership of the lots along the corner of Summit and S. Mint st. with 300ft development zoning.

https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2024/01/16/providence-group-south-end-real-estate-development.html

[SouthEnd "Gold District"]

7 hours ago, Hushpuppy321 said:

Do you know if this building or the Prospect Building will block views from those recently completed 600K+ Townhomes?

I know...

 

 

[Who's up for a competition? Reuse design for old office buildings uptown]

So I happen to think that this group, as much as we like to argue and banter, may actually have the right combination of thinkers and professionals to pull off a good proposal for this competition. What do you guys think?

https://charlotte.axios.com/324795/charlotte-uptown-office-residential-conversion-housing/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslocal_charlotte&stream=top

[Charlotte Gateway Station and Railroad Improvements]

Being very familiar with San Francisco's Trans Bay terminsl, watching so much money poured into a huge transit station over 5 years of construction, and still not in use to this day other than the bus station part, it really is sad to see the lost potential and wasted money. I know there isn't much rush since the actual high speed rail is still years away, but going ahead and building the station now would at least secure the project and start spurring other development around the area that is hesitant till this gets off the ground. The wall of underutilized land between uptown and gateway village is truly the next boom area of uptown. 

[Charlotte's Light Rail: Lynx Blue Line]

After living in San Francisco, I can promise you CATS is way better run and managed than the disastrous SF Muni. If I made it to work on time once a week, I was winning. 

[Cousins Tremont Doggett Towers]

They do look pretty good. Definitely keeping in the style of what's been going up in the area lately. The thing that really sticks out though to me in this rendering is just how lame the Hawk is. SO uninspiring and lacking any creativity whatsoever. Glad it will be lost in the many projects around it. 

[SouthEnd "Gold District"]

All done. 

[SouthEnd "Gold District"]

7 hours ago, tarhoosier said:

Thirty years ago I was returning from a wedding in Greensboro late on a Saturday evening. I thought I could make it home to Dilworth without buying gas to make my return that few minutes sooner. This was a time when gas stations (some) closed at 10-12 p. m. I exited 77 on West Morehead and headed uphill toward Tryon. The car sputtered and I knew it was not able to make it. I turned off Morehead to avoid being a traffic impediment and coasted to a stop on that block of Dunbar at a few minutes after midnight. I pulled in front of one of those remaining houses and breathed heavily. There were a few more houses there at that time, prior to the Panthers Stadium. I woke my wife and she said groggily"Are we home?". "Almost". I discovered that night that there was a Dunbar Street in Charlotte behind the House of Prayer for all People. A 20 minute walk home leaving her in the car due to her high heel shoes, fetching her using our other car, followed by Sunday morning spent buying gas, fueling the empty car, driving it home then walking to Dunbar to recover the second car taught me not to trust my instinct about fuel economy. 

The single pleasant thing about that evening was that on the walk to the house the Park Elevator Building housed a club at that time. It was a night club/performance space and after midnight the music was throbbing all over that part of the neighborhood. There was nothing and no one to be concerned about noise at that time in Charlotte. All pre-light rail, pre-South End, pre-pink tower (which took the place of the Park building. Perhaps someone here recalls Park Elevator as a night club/rave venue.

I do remember it, also was a bit of a sex club towards the end if I remember correctly.  Shame Jim Gross burned it down.  >:) 

15 hours ago, lit said:

I like those two little houses on Dunbar Street. It looks like the one is getting a pretty serious makeover too

The odd thing is it was actually completely demolished only to be rebuilt, and I was going to ask if anyone here knew why or what it is being used for.  I can't imagine that land is going to last much longer in this state, as all of those remaining buidings are easily demolishable for larger development.

[Seversville Projects and News]

They don't even try to fit in. The windows are tiny and they do nothing to take advantage of the lots they are built on. How is the city allowing them to be permitted. They're basically three story trailer homes. So disappointing! 

[SouthEnd "Gold District"]

7 hours ago, CTiger said:

Yeah I really hope that this building has space that could be transformed into retail in the future.  It might be a tough sell right now, but this stretch of road is going to get more and more activated as time goes on.  Think about the Pipe and Foundry future development, LU being fully built out, Queensbridge, Tepper's entertainment district, and the continued development of apartments down Mint St towards Wilmore.  This is right smack dab in the middle of all of that.   Just because retail might not make sense now, doesn't mean it never will.  Look at Camden Southend or Ashton.  At the time they were built retail was a tough sell but now they are both in absolute prime locations.

I wouldn't count any Tepper initiatives till those eggs hatch!  But you are aboslutely correct in every other aspect that this corner (which I live on) is going to be very dense with thousands of new residents, including those in the building itself,  that would definitely appreciate a good restaurant, bar or market within a few blocks.  Hell, I'd even settle for a 7-Eleven at this point!  I am very curous to what retail is going in the bottom of the Prospect across the street from me.  There are like 5 or 6 retail/commercial suites along the Mint st. side.  I think it's just rediculoius that the city would approve this size of developement without any alocated retail space in such a foot trafficed zone.

[SouthEnd "Gold District"]

Got to participate in a walking tour of the Link Apartments yesterday. Definitely impressed with how it's turning out. Didn't get many pictures in the apartments but they're going to be very nice with top of the line, smart appliances and all energy efficient as well, including air-conditioning with variable speed fans. Views are pretty spectacular! Also noticed that the Charlotte Knife and Saw building is officially for sale, with "Renovations coming" on the sign. Curious what they have in mind for the lot. 

[Legacy Union (former Charlotte Observer redevelopment)]

22 hours ago, GoingUptown said:

Photo from this morning…

 

Well, now we at least know where the elevators will be. 

[SouthEnd "Gold District"]

On 4/19/2022 at 2:24 PM, Hushpuppy321 said:

So the view of Uptown from almost all of these Townhomes will be blocked?  Not very familiar with this area

It will very likely cover up the peaks of the Bank of America building and Duke Energy Center towers you can just barely see in this picture.  I do have a rooftop patio that I will probably still see them from, but it will most likely cut out everything below the crowns.  The units further down, away from Mint Street will be less affected as they will probably see around the new building more.

[SouthEnd "Gold District"]

On 4/8/2022 at 5:52 PM, j-man said:

Oh wow. Sorry. And now that they’re saying a 17 or 19 story building will be like a couple blocks away, that will definitely take more of your view away.

I have yet to see the rendering, but yes, I imagine that will be the nail in the coffin for my uptown view.  Hopefully the 19 story building will be decent to look at.  I am not at all impressed with the Prospect nextdoor here, very dull and didn't cary over the contemporary feel that the original black and white renderings depicted.  

If anyone has a rendering of the tower going up on Moorehead, I'm definitely curious!

[SouthEnd "Gold District"]

On 4/3/2022 at 8:12 AM, j-man said:

Now that these two midrise apartments are up, the recently complete townhomes seem out of place. 

You're telling me!  And as I live in those townhomes, I really wasn't too happy getting boxed in either!  But I guess that's what you get for living in such a changing neighborhood.  I'll gladly take the added retail and development, just miss my view!

[SouthEnd "Gold District"]

Crane came down yesterday at the Prospect (not the Nugget). 

 

They picked the windiest day to do it too! 

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jfzcxtedULBAqmbjIiCcTlsxWLn7Jrev/view?usp=drivesdk

 

 

[Duke Energy Plaza Headquarters | 40 Story formerly Charlotte Metro Tower]

Steel is starting to go in finally!  Sorry for the bad pic, I have lost my view to the stupid Spectrum apartment building on Carson.

[SouthEnd "Gold District"]

Anyone know what is slated for this lot back and across from Little Hardware?  Saw some soil testing being done, and it is a prime large lot begging for something cool to be built there.  

[SouthEnd "Gold District"]

3 hours ago, KJHburg said:

Miscellaneous photos of the 2 new apartment complexes by Spectrum and Grubb and the demo for the 3rd new complex behind the Railyard. 

Looks like they may be saving the Magnolia after all!  That would be amazing!  Fingers crossed!

[SouthEnd "Gold District"]

On 7/28/2021 at 4:11 PM, RANYC said:

This is a perfectly nice block with a single-story office and a mature magnolia tree on the corner.  Not in real estate but just sort of funny to me how lots get chosen for development/redevelopment.  Given all the other empty or rundown lots in the Gold district, why this one for this latest round of densification?

so many ugly gravel parking lots around here and yet they chose to tear down this building with that beautiful Magnolia tree.  I totally agree.  In the end, it's based on lot size, shape and price, I get it, but let's try to develop these ugly flat lots before destroying things already built, and I wish they would try to save the trees.  Only thing I don't like about the Gold District is the lack of trees around here.

[Who is going to buy all the Condos, (Part II)]

On 4/20/2021 at 12:27 PM, CarolinaDaydreamin said:

I posted this in the expansion thread so don't shoot me if its repetitive but it absolutely applies. We are second in the country for growth, and also had the second largest increase over 2019.

 

Happy to say I was part of the San Francisco exodus, and adding back to Charlotte's growth this last year.  Everyone I knew in SF left the city.  Most moved to LA, Palm Springs, Tahoe, Texas and Idaho.  The recovery will take years before SF is back to how it was pre-covid, and hopefully cleaned up and better.

[SouthEnd "Gold District"]

They are definitely working overtime now on the Spectrum and Grubb apartments. Parking deck is up to second floor and moving onto third for Spectrum, and Grubb is making fast gains with the first level being poured. 

[Ally Charlotte Center (f/k/a Tryon Place) - 26 floors - 427']

20 hours ago, j-man said:

They should have taken a look at Vantage South End’s parking deck. It looks like a separate building...oh yeah, with retail too. Unlike this one. 

Everything about this building was lazy, compared to the original  rendering many years ago.  The crown looks like an aluminum sided fence, and at night it's just translucent enough to see the parking garage quality lights behind it.  The street level retail that was supposed to be an open air mall was dialed down to 5 restaurant spaces and an ice cream window.  The Marriott, actually is ok, but definitely nothing to write home about, and the garage, which is an enormous visible wall, looks unfinished, facing one of the most prominent entrances to uptown.  Very little thought was put into this building at most levels.

[Seversville Projects and News]

On 1/28/2021 at 2:18 PM, kermit said:

^ IMO the neighborhood has some of the best bones in Charlotte.

[housing stock, tree canopy, elevation, view, institutional buildings, greenway, mill and streetcar]

Agree with you completely. I have seen these hideous duplexes popping up everywhere around uptown and I just can't believe how little effort was put into the design. It doesn't just avoid fitting in, it blatantly offends everything around it. So sad. 

[SouthEnd "Gold District"]

On 1/19/2021 at 1:29 AM, dylansukkert said:

With all these new residents coming to the Gold District can we get a full time bar or restaurant into the Dog House building? And the retail across the street on Morehead as well. Could be a great little corner especially on gamedays, Panthers and CLTFC. 

Have you ever been over the Palmer street Arcade Bar? It's a gem, quite a hidden secret over here. I am making it a regular hang out.  All the arcade games are free to play and it's quite nice inside, even if you would never know it from the outside.