CarolinaDaydreamin

The quality of the trip on Delta is worth it, especially at the same price lol. Going to be nice with that Sky Club next year...

While the Braves have AAA in Gwinnett, the county has over a million people. I would love to see the AAA team for Charlotte to be in Greenville, a great downtown ballpark. AA could be in Kannapolis or Columbia

Nashville and Charlotte aren't overlapping cities at all. In fact the Titans moved to Tennessee immediately after the Panthers were an expansion team, and Nashville FC immediately before Charlotte FC. Any speculation that MLB has to have another team out west isn't very well in the loop. Salt Lake and Portland are both very soft expansion candidates. Charlotte and Nashville are both outside the Braves exclusive TV zones, while Portland is within the Mariners TV rights zone. The Canadian Dollar is very week and it doesn't seem like there is any appetite in MTL for an ownership group, or a stadium. Nearly anyone can write a Bleacher report article, I have written numerous over the years. Rob Manfred has repeatedly mentioned Charlotte with Nashville, the difference at this point is a vocal "potential" ownership group, but like we all saw with the RDU MLS "bid", money talks a lot louder than online social media. If the Panthers have a great season, work out a stadium plan, MAYBE Tepper would warm up to a MLB team here, but he has a lot on his plate right now. I could also see him eventually buying his hometown Pirates.

Bedford Falls...

Nope not a federally recognized tribe. Trump largely won NC bc he promised Lumbee federal recognition the day before the 2020 election.

That picture was from like 2008...

The biggest obstruction to train service south is the state of SC. GA and the capital of the south to the second largest city in the south is CLEARLY more important route to the future of the growth of the region. Charleston is a relative backwater comparatively.

Ballentyne is essentially Atlanta's Perimeter- the center of the northern (in this case southern) suburbs. Charlotte has an attraction to the north for residential, which Atlanta doesn't have in Lake Norman, so it might actually have 2 "perimeter" business districts at some point, and the airport/river district to the West, but also is 40+ years behind Atlanta in terms of growth.

No and no announcements, but rumored to be interested in the site down providence road at International Dr.

I would think that Midtown would be a perfect place for Wegman's. The lowrise retail along S Kings Dr. to the west of Met.

Tbh Alma Adams isn't from Charlotte and hasn't done much for Charlotte since her district shifted southward. Atlanta got a huge portion of the Beltline funded bc of Nikema Williams' advocacy.

Well the Gastonia 4-5 lane stretch of 85 is next, and it is going to be a disaster with years of neglected bridges never widened. That 10 mile stretch would be relatively easy to connect, especially with US 74 being turned into interstate. I think the lack of interstate quality on-ramp between 321 and 85 was extremely shortsighted.

Yes Phase IV to the border is the next phase. Bridges are already being built for the final widening. Georgia is miles ahead of NC and SC for highway widening and urban highway projects. Largely bc of the Peach Pass revenues and not having to widen every small town bypass as an interstate spur.

Interestingly SC's most southern 19 miles are also only 2 lanes, while Georgia constructs and additional lane to the SC border. So the only 2 lane stretch of 85 between Atlanta and Charlotte will be the first 19 miles of SC and the first 10 miles of NC.

Atlanta had 3(!) Beautiful stations that all were lost. The most recent being 1966.

Miami to West Palm is an hour 15, not 2, but importantly every hour with much nicer cars and stations.

The TIAA Trust won't have a substantially larger presence in CLT that it currently does. They aren't likely the signature tenant of this tower.

I wish they would put it in Truist Field

Guessing Little Alley from Atlanta.

And the REAL south FL HQ is Palm Beach where Ross, Cohen, Tepper, Schwab, Koch, Dan Gilbert, Griffin, Ichan all live.

I would bet they open a few more locations too.

They do a fantastic job in Atlanta

From an experienced redeye flyer to ATL. The 5am arrival is much less painful than a 6:30-7:30 arrival. You can get home and sleep for a few hours before working that day... for connections, you have the potential to get home 2 hours early.

They fly a single daily flight to Nashville, RDU and PIT. While I understand they have to contend with AA, they fly twice daily to TPA, despite Alaska also flying there. United can maintain a 738 to Denver, while competing with 5 AA and a Frontier flight, I don't think a single flight to CLT is completely out of the question. I was merely offering that its the only option for a second airline to SFO. CLT to Hawaii via SFO on United would seem like a reasonable connection.