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I wish they would sell off the Diocesan Pastoral Center
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6 hours ago, LKN704 said:
Ironically even though they took a buzzsaw to their LAX network (dropping over 15 destinations since the pandemic), AA still has more gates than any other carrier at LAX. It's not really a slot situation at JFK either - for years AA had slots at JFK that were unused and AA management publicly admitted that they were forced to give up slots at JFK simply because they were unaware that they possessed them - in short, even when AA had the slots at JFK, they didn't know how to use them effectively.
The reality is that markets like LAX and NYC are filled with folks who actually care about the product, and that clientele is simply not AA's target market. As AA management has said publicly time and time again, the schedule is the product, and the company is not prepared to compete in markets where they might have to compete on product. International opportunities are out, markets like El Paso (a city that AA management continuously brings up) are now the cities where AA sees pathways to profitability and marketshare.
Things like seatback video entertainment really don't matter to a lot of people, but it does matter when competing in a high yielding market like NYC/WAS/LAX. I can't think of any reason why anyone who lives in NYC would actively choose to fly AA when Delta, JetBlue, and United offer a better product and schedule. It's not for nothing that United is spending billions and billions of dollars to add seatback entertainment to its domestic fleet.
AA has 28 gates at LAX and Delta has 28 (with codeshares) under the new configuration at LAX. Delta now has the most flights and passengers. Delta is lapping United and AA with terminal upgrades too at LGA, BOS (and SLC, DTW, MSP and ATL).
As a Delta loyalist, I love it.
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14 hours ago, ArchiCLT said:
You can see both capped entries in the 2011 Streetview.
That was a tunnel until probably 2002. I remember it as a young kid (I think).
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1 hour ago, 49er said:
I'm not familiar with how many flights a gate can handle per day. Does Delta taking most of the new Concourse A expansion allow for them to significantly expand their Charlotte operation from 34 flights daily? I'd love for them to compete with AA on some Caribbean and Mexico destinations.
Delta is going to still focus on Atlanta for those flights, but probably increasing flights to their other focus cities. Hopefully more to SLC, and maybe eventually adding flights to LAX or SEA
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I had CBS on while working, after watching Price is Right and somewhat catching the local news and when I looked up saw what looked like Marshall park when Young and the Restless came on (I don't watch it), so I have no idea on the background of the city in the show but it was right, they used Marshall park to build a skyline. You can even tell there are some photoshopped Charlotte buildings in the shot.
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2 hours ago, Nick2 said:
Yeah that's what they said 5 years ago lol
They just picked a designer a few months ago. Have minimum funding and a timeline.
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On 7/24/2023 at 3:52 PM, CarolinaDaydreamin said:
Bedford Falls...
The toy store across from laurel market was called Bedford Falls Toys before Black Forest, for the person who was "confused".
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On 2/19/2024 at 11:53 AM, Nick2 said:
Even if it's not Charlotte this makes me very happy. Basically any investment in infrastructure pays off in the long term except a few specific instances (ahem...ATL streetcar) but any infrastructure can pay for itself by use during its lifetime.
Excuse me that is going to connect to the beltline (and connect 4 subway lines) in the next 5 years...
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On 2/6/2024 at 2:48 PM, tozmervo said:
Also notable. People never believe me when I tell them the worst part of my drive between Charlotte and Atlanta isn't the end points: it's the middle.
SC road construction is the worst I've ever seen. Georgia has built about 60 miles worth of new lanes in 3 years. SC has been building 60 miles for 15 years.
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On 1/29/2024 at 8:59 AM, KJHburg said:
from socials concerning new roads in Ballantyne:
""NEW ROADS
Please use caution navigating new traffic patterns, as your safety continues to be our top priority.
This map illustrates new roads, intersections and traffic patterns. New traffic lights will be fully operational by Wednesday, January 31, and roads are expected to open on Thursday, February 1.
Upper Avenue, connecting Johnston Road and North Community House Road
Lower Avenue, connecting Ballantyne Commons Parkway and North Community House Road
Please note the section of Lower Avenue between Ballantyne Commons Parkway and Ballantyne Corporate Place will open in conjunction with The Olde Mecklenburg Brewery & Biergarten's opening, anticipated in mid-April.
We appreciate your patience throughout the construction process as we work to improve connectivity throughout the Ballantyne® campus and surrounding area.""
Are those street names finalized?
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On 1/9/2024 at 10:20 PM, CLT Development said:
I hate to say it but theres absolutely no fudgeing way, I've been to 12 NFL Stadiums, this would be an absurd statement. We have escalators, I've been to ones that dont... THIS YEAR.
I'd say BofA is pretty equivalent to Miami's Hard Rock Stadium, and it underwent a $350m renovation in 2015, and the location and situation is much worse. It also isn't going anywhere with the new F1 track, Paddocks and club renovations surrounding the stadium.
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21 hours ago, davidclt said:We're #77! (said no one ever - for what any of these mindless rankings are worth) Best Airport Rankings Worldwide + Airport Ratings | AirHelp Score | AirHelp
CLT is Between San Diego, Ca. and Cork, IE. Behind Beirut (!)
Not going to lie, I flew threw Beirut last December and they had incredible Christmas decorations. With arabic writing in most places, it was surreal. Lebanon is still about 40% chrisitian. The duty free shopping and Cedar club were very nice and modern. The customs area and the concourses off the main terminal were similarly shaped to CLT, but when you got out there it felt like you were in the movie Argo.
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I still can't believe how many companies want to move to Dallas. Place is a total hole. I understand the central location, business climate and cost to do business, but I wouldn't subject anyone to having to live in that flat brown, treeless concrete jungle.
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23 hours ago, kermit said:
Walgreens on Milwaukee Ave at Damen (Wicker Park not CBD) in Chicago in a former bank building. Cosmetics are in the vault and the door still works.
Developers in Charlotte are never pushed to do this sort of conversion which is why we don't see it.
Wow it looks similar to the Walgreens in Dowtown Atlanta too
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On 12/4/2023 at 1:14 PM, CLT Development said:I don't think they released a full plan but this is the masterplan i have.
Man we really need to be talking about a blue line extension...
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3 hours ago, kermit said:
^ I missed it to. Its a pretty massive reroute (and length extension) at this stage of the game, so I am thinking typo. Having said that, this would be a satisfying additional FU to the State of South Carolina and would allow for an I-20 adjacent routing in Georgia (with the sacrifice of the Athens stop, but that was listed in the announcement so…)
Route planners have been pretty insistent about connecting airports (I think they view it as politically important) so I would be super-surprised if CLT was dropped.
My money is on a transcription error in Tillis’ office rather than any change from the previously identified preferred route.
Its DEF a typo.
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34 minutes ago, tozmervo said:
I don't understand the mentality of the lane-measuring contest going on here. Is someone keeping score of how much 6-lane interstate exists?
No, and I generally think lane widening isn't a positive, but with the amount of 18 wheelers traveling the I-85 corridor, the structural issues of I-85 west of Charlotte are decades behind other states in the region.
South Carolina is trying to improve this corridor, even if it is taking a decade to complete the widening. North Carolina's lack of progress on the highway between the largest 2 cities in the region is pathetic.
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On 11/12/2023 at 12:40 AM, Take2 said:
GA is by no means ahead of NC. 85/40 is 3+ lanes from Durham to 74 in Gaston County. We'll over 150 miles of 6 or more lanes which is amazing. What town in NC doesn't have a belt around it these days? Don't get me started on Asheboro.
GA is improving but outside of Atlanta it is horrid. And even in Atlanta, outside of the majors it's pretty bad....
Georgia is 3 lanes from Atlanta to the Florida border on 75, I-95 from SC to FL and 85 is soon to be 3+ lanes from SC border to Alabama (4 from ATL to almost the AL border). Georgia has much better roads and construction is much faster than NC. Atlanta has bad traffic, but the improvements come quickly and the infrastructure is much more built out than NC.
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On 11/19/2023 at 6:44 PM, KJHburg said:This is the I-73/I-74 connection and interchange in Rockingham. Won't really do anything for the Wilmington bound traffic from Greensboro but elminates a bottleneck for those coming from the Triad. Now if we can get the Wadesboro bypass underway that would really help eastbound traffic from Charlotte. this is going westbound on 74.
The most typical NCDOT BS that Charlotte to Wilmington has be so deprioritized over the years. Kinston, Goldsboro and New Bern always pull so much more from the state government than they produce. Its unbelievable.
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On 11/5/2023 at 5:55 PM, Crucial_Infra said:
My list would be similar to your list. I think VA and GA are just a touch ahead of NC in urban freeways but that’s just based on vibes driving in ATL and Nova. NC/GA/VA are way ahead of Tennessee for sure.
GA is substantially ahead of NC. 85 in Gastonia is case in point. Georgia will also probably have 3 lanes each way on 85 to the SC border before SC finishes (LOL) and before NC even starts the widening in Gaston county. ATL will has reversible and toll lanes throughout most of the metro.
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Surprised no one has mentioned Rail Car servicer TTX moving their HQ to Charlotte from Chicago.
TTX’s new office will be just under 70,000 square feet, with the buildout expected to be complete by this spring. The office will open in 2024 and will include a work cafe, balcony and a training facility.
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1 hour ago, LKN704 said:The price tag on the RS and H site is also bizarre - $48 billion. In context, the new SLC terminal complex only cost $4 billion and the new LGA complex cost $8 billion.
Probably meant to say "$4-8 Billon"
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4 hours ago, kermit said:
The state (and our federal reps) has dropped the ball once again, the Whitehouse announced the 31 new tech hubs that will receive fundings from the CHIPS act. NC did not make the list. [its still pretty early in the morning, did I miss it in the list?]
It's interesting to me these "hubs" tend to be in smaller metros with very specific focuses (Greenville and Augusta for example), not large metro areas with broad funding. I would think this comparatively hurts us less by not having it, if peer cities also aren't hosting these hubs. To be fair Richmond and Dallas had hubs, one from the state of VA the other through SMU (who had large amounts of matching private funds).
The state of NC def dropped the ball, but they would have nominated RDUCH.
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On 5/9/2023 at 10:51 PM, CarolinaDaydreamin said:
Guessing Little Alley from Atlanta.
Yup.
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Ironically even though they took a buzzsaw to their LAX network (dropping over 15 destinations since the pandemic), AA still has more gates than any other carrier at LAX. It's not really a slot situation at JFK either - for years AA had slots at JFK that were unused and AA management publicly admitted that they were forced to give up slots at JFK simply because they were unaware that they possessed them - in short, even when AA had the slots at JFK, they didn't know how to use them effectively.
Brooklyn Village Redevelopment in 2nd Ward
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Peebles was clearly a phony since day 1. How is that NY skyscraper going?