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On 9/8/2023 at 5:30 PM, videtur quam contuor said:
Booking to LGA today and Delta is usually the better deal for all classes of travel. After making booking I checked AA to see what I saved and...AA had a matching price! Is that true for other destinations?
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...
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On 8/21/2023 at 12:33 AM, kayman said:
The AAA franchise license could be relocated to the Canon Ballers, Honeybadgers, Crawdads, or start up a new AAA MiLB franchise in Rock Hill.
The current MLB Commissioner said Charlotte not Raleigh. He named market size, location being on the NC/SC stateline, already a recognized major pro sports market home to other pro sports as his reasons. So unless he is fired or replaced, I can bet money he (the current MLB Commissioner) would deny or block it happening in Raleigh. I just don't see it going to Raleigh happening...
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
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On 8/18/2023 at 1:05 AM, Crucial_Infra said:
Nashville boosters seem pretty gung-ho about MLB too. Is there enough room for both cities to get a team? Doubtful. If either get it, the other will be on the outside looking in for a long time imo. Look no further than the Triangle and MLS.
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.
4 hours ago, smeagolsfree said:Too much talk about Nashville getting an MLB team as here in Bleacher report. I say anyone of these 6 teams mentioned for Nashville which I dare say none of which will come here can go to Charlotte. I still say the organization here will be holding out for an expansion team as any relocation team will HAVE to pony up for a new stadium themselves. It is not going to be a free ride.
All of these are seemingly looking for a new home.
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.
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21 minutes ago, KJHburg said:Clue the music again the CARY Files strike again. This is with RAM co-developer of next door Lowes Tech Tower with their 121 West tower.
31-story vertically mixed-use building with 333 apartments,
hospitality suites, co-working spaces, and ~13,600 sf of ground
floor retail. The project will occupy a prominent corner in South
End Charlotte, adding density and a mix of uses in a transit-
oriented developmentThe CARY Files the gift that keeps on giving!
https://carync.app.box.com/s/o2lockq82x1yg8pkd3qozawvrhwjggoa/folder/214543092129
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On 12/29/2021 at 10:30 PM, atlrvr said:
Was a toy store for many years. I want to say Black Forest Toys maybe??? Anyway, Amazon ended all that.
Edit... actually after looking at your pic again, I realize that the toy store was in the other cottage that still stands immediately to the left of this one, between this house and the gas station.
Both are probably not long for this world.
Bedford Falls...
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On 7/21/2023 at 12:26 AM, Windsurfer said:
As I understand it, the Lumbee tribe is a subset of the Tuscarora Nation.
Nope not a federally recognized tribe. Trump largely won NC bc he promised Lumbee federal recognition the day before the 2020 election.
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On 7/21/2023 at 11:23 AM, SydneyCarton said:
Travepedia
Long live the Queen!
That picture was from like 2008...
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On 7/20/2023 at 8:48 PM, Phillydog said:
Charlotte to Charleston should be a priority before Atlanta, GA. Charleston and Norfolk are the most important harbors on the East Coast after New York.
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.
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On 7/14/2023 at 2:30 PM, RANYC said:
This right here
while “perimeter” office parks will try to create an amenity-laden context to compete, they don’t get local government as a partner in this in the same way. Charlotte has created a critical mass of regional attractions targeting professionals in its city center: pro sports venues, arts & culture venues. I’d add The Pearl to that too, a sort of intensive think tank bringing thousands of surgeons to get trained here annually. TOD zoning is driving the extraordinary apartment boom which will create the energy of additional residential clustering, and given all this, B’tyne is a bit of a lonely island. I think B’tyne is certain viable and has a niche to fill, but for a newcomer to town, center city wins.
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.
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8 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:Have any Wegman’s opened in Charlotte yet? They’re going to be very popular when they do.
No and no announcements, but rumored to be interested in the site down providence road at International Dr.
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On 7/15/2023 at 8:48 AM, AirNostrumMAD said:
It would’ve been a perfect location (277 access) for a vertically integrated Wegmans should they decide to enter the Charlotte market. There, Ballantyne and Lake Norman.
But like you said. Or John Fox, lol. It is what it is at this point.
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.
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2 hours ago, kermit said:
Thread title is out of date (again), and I failed to note what Charlotte applied for this year, but...
The 2023 RAISE (the funding formerly known as TIGER) grants have been awarded
NC got:
- Brevard (area) $24.5 million for a 19 mile shared use trail along the former NS tracks
- Charlotte (Sugar Creek) $12 million for "mobility hubs" a 3.5 mile shared use path and crossing improvements along W. Sugar Creek
- Raleigh $10 million for a paratransit maintenance facility
- 12 rural counties (including Rowan): $9 million Various pedestrian improvements (missing sidewalks, crossings, etc.)
- Lumberton $8.6 million: 2.1 miles of complete streets
- Chapel Hill: $1 million: Feasibility study for 25 miles of Greenway / Ped infrastructure
While the Sugar Creek project isn't nothing (its gets props for better connecting Hidden Valley to the Blue Line), I am once again dismayed by the lack of ambition and action by the city of Charlotte. Given our growth rates and political significance as the largest urban area in a swing state we really should be doing better in these competitions (IMO). The biggest part of the blame lies with the city, blame also goes to our house and senate members for not advocating on our behalf (but they can only work with what they are given by the city).
I increasingly feel like local micro-transit / ped / bike improvements must be done via guerrilla urbanism (the bus benches were a good start but its time to ramp that up)
https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2023-06/RAISE 2023 Fact Sheets_0.pdf
Edit: This is what I am talking about -->
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.
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On 6/14/2023 at 10:31 PM, tozmervo said:
I appreciate the completionist urge to widen that little bit of interstate, but it is way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way down my list of priorities for North Carolina. (I've also never encountered any even remotely slow or congested traffic on that stretch with many peak hour trips through there.)
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.
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6 minutes ago, tozmervo said:I only know of GA plans widening to Commerce, which leaves them about 30 miles short of the state line.
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.
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40 minutes ago, KJHburg said:
Glad to see parts of the I-85 widening from Spartanburg to the NC SC state line is complete and rest is nearing completion. Now NC needs to widen its short stretch from the state line to US 74 in Kings Mountain. This is a super important corridor to Charlotte from the upstate of SC to Charlotte and now NC will have the most narrowest link.
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.
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2 hours ago, kermit said:Never a grand terminal station (all trains were on their way to Atlanta) but there was a downtown station roughly where Gateway is going.
Atlanta had 3(!) Beautiful stations that all were lost. The most recent being 1966.
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On 5/23/2023 at 10:16 AM, kermit said:
In terms of the cost of our (well, the developer actually) foot dragging on Gateway. The WSJ reports on housing price spikes around Brightline stations in South Florida. FWIW the trip from Miami to West Palm is just under 2 hours. For comparison its 1.5 hrs to Greensboro and 3:11 to Raleigh from Charlotte at current (slower than necessary) speeds.
Miami to West Palm is an hour 15, not 2, but importantly every hour with much nicer cars and stations.
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36 minutes ago, DMann said:
TIAA would look nice on top of that tower!!!!!
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.
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43 minutes ago, KJHburg said:
this needs to happen in Charlotte the NFL draft and seems like the NFL was sniffing around earlier this month.
https://charlotte.axios.com/330063/nfl-leaders-visit-charlotte-for-nfl-draft-pitch/
I wish they would put it in Truist Field
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On 4/26/2023 at 3:48 PM, CLT Development said:
They were looking here pre-pandemic, but no not Halls. Its a chain, but its a tiny tiny chain, two locations.
Guessing Little Alley from Atlanta.
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On 4/1/2023 at 10:25 PM, SydneyCarton said:
I believe that Miami considers itself a financial capital because Citadel and Tapper’s hedge fund have moved their “headquarters” there. In reality, NY is still the nerve center for both, even though Citadel was “headquartered” in Chicago before moving to Miami.
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkAnd the REAL south FL HQ is Palm Beach where Ross, Cohen, Tepper, Schwab, Koch, Dan Gilbert, Griffin, Ichan all live.
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14 hours ago, KJHburg said:
2 new locations this one 8n the Line was announced first
I would bet they open a few more locations too.
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13 hours ago, AltNative said:https://sports.yahoo.com/savi-provisions-open-second-store-091517065.html
missed this article when it was published back in February, but an upscale market, like a mini Whole Foods, is coming to the neighborhood at 1124 S Mint. I'm guessing they'll be doing a hefty renovation to the building and I can't wait to see how it turns out. Love that they're saving another 1 story brick building in the neighborhood. The Gold District is BOOMING
website: https://www.saviprovisions.com/
1124 S Mint:
They do a fantastic job in Atlanta
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19 minutes ago, CLT2014 said:
Orange County is slot restricted, so it looks like AA is running an experiment to see if this is a more efficient use of their late evening departure slot from SNA. Currently AA is running 5x daily to Phoenix from SNA, with the last flight landing in Phoenix at 9:20PM which misses the Phoenix hub's last bank of the day for connections. Essentially that 5th flight to Phoenix is 100% O&D travel between Orange County and Phoenix and probably not a great performer.
By shifting the slot to Charlotte though, AA has to make some other compromises.... Orange County has a very strict ban on departures after 10PM... which would be optimal for a red-eye to the East Coast, but not allowed. AA also needs to add padding for taxiing and delays to avoid having to cancel the flight.... so they have a 9:21PM departure time to be wheels up before the noise curfew (the only other flight that leaves later is Delta 731 to Atlanta). Any major delays will lead to a flight delayed to the morning after 7AM (which happens time-to-time for the Delta flight, I've risked that one before). The landing time of the red-eye to CLT is also 5AM. AA has a few other red-eyes that land a little after 5AM and it can be a brutal experience for tired connecting passengers milling about a relatively quiet airport where most restaurants haven't even opened yet. The Admirals Club does open at 5:15AM though.
This flight will be ALL about connections so AA will see if OC travelers will accept the roughly 2 hour+ layover most will have to have access to the unique destinations offered by CLT over AA's other hubs.
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.
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Legacy Union (former Charlotte Observer redevelopment)
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Yup.