Plaza-Midwood Projects (Central, Commonwealth, The Plaza)

[Crown]

2 hours ago, Jayvee said:

Can't wait for this. 

Also, new restaurant/bar to take place of Joe Hoopers. Theyre using a "no condos" type marketing strategy to draw interest. Smart. They say early 2016 but haven't started permitting process yet. Good luck with early 2016

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/biz-columns-blogs/whats-in-store/article45470610.html

While I appreciate their attempt at humor, wasn't like 90% of Joe Hooper's customer base the apartments within walking distance? I have a hard time believing the new concept will be able to stray too far from that core, considering the 3 new developments within earshot of this building being finished next year. Will poking fun at "condos" while pretty much catering exclusively to their residents work? I guess time will tell. 

Still don't know where they are building "condos" in PM. Last time I checked they were all apartments. 

[Guest]

12 minutes ago, Crown said:

While I appreciate their attempt at humor, wasn't like 90% of Joe Hooper's customer base the apartments within walking distance? I have a hard time believing the new concept will be able to stray too far from that core, considering the 3 new developments within earshot of this building being finished next year. Will poking fun at "condos" while pretty much catering exclusively to their residents work? I guess time will tell. 

Still don't know where they are building "condos" in PM. Last time I checked they were all apartments. 

This is my biggest pet peeve when people post about this on the Plaza Midwood Facebook. Good luck buying them, you morons.

[Third Strike]

Hope this hasn't been posted yet. Approved plans for 1201 Central Avenue (let me know if the links work):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3uD7Fu8V-SsU3h1R3cxQlZ3REE/view

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3uD7Fu8V-SsN1IxbzYtZGRmT0k/view

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3uD7Fu8V-SsdU9STUZ3Yk4tZzg/view

[Midwoodian]

58 minutes ago, Third Strike said:

Hope this hasn't been posted yet. Approved plans for 1201 Central Avenue (let me know if the links work):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3uD7Fu8V-SsU3h1R3cxQlZ3REE/view

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3uD7Fu8V-SsN1IxbzYtZGRmT0k/view

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3uD7Fu8V-SsdU9STUZ3Yk4tZzg/view

Barf....Terrible

Thank you for posting though. I was hoping these would be interesting looking.

Edited November 20, 2015 by Midwoodian

[SgtCampsalot]

A dinky old building having a huge development built around it? What's a more classic trait of a city than that? They will do very well.

[southslider]

At least they'll build Plaza's first B-Cycle station.

[Third Strike]

On the Central Avenue side, is the "Lounge Element" retail, or just the entrance to the complex?

[Prodev]

I just took a very quick look, but it looks like there is zero retail.

[nonillogical]

Looks like a carbon copy of Quarters @ Morehead almost. That one might not be the worst ever in its context, but this here is pretty awful. Given the recent attention that bland apartment design is getting outside of our community, I wonder if people will be pretty fired up about this one?

[Crown]

 

 

 

Edited November 20, 2015 by Crown

[Guest]

[Crown]

3 minutes ago, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:

That retail is labeled as the lobby / lounge n another elevation, right? So does this really have ZERO retail?

[Deleted.]

5 minutes ago, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:

What's the cloud-shaped thing in the bottom right corner? Hopefully the materials used won't result in more Charlotte Beige.

And Crown, looks like no retail has been in included. 

Edited November 20, 2015 by Piedmont767

[Guest]

Campus works press release said 8-10k retail. Most people haven't made that kind of statement then casually backed down, though I wouldn't put it past them.

Edited November 20, 2015 by Guest

[ah59396]

This project is absolute trash.

[Crown]

7 minutes ago, Piedmont767 said:

What's the cloud-shaped thing in the bottom right corner? Hopefully the materials used won't result in more Charlotte Beige.

And Crown, looks like no retail has been in included. 

 

3 minutes ago, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:

Campus works press release said 8-10k retail. Most people haven't made that kind of statement then casually backed down, though I wouldn't put it past them.

 

Looks like they've pulled one over on us again. Not for nothing but holy crap that train is going to be loud to those apartments facing the railroad. 

[tozmervo]

9 minutes ago, Piedmont767 said:

What's the cloud-shaped thing in the bottom right corner

In architectural drawings it's called a revision cloud. It just denotes an area of the drawing that has been revised from a previous version of the drawing.

Also, I hope the architects were enjoying a sense of irony calling the parking deck entrances "porte-cocheres"

[SgtCampsalot]

1 hour ago, Crown said:

 

The one true silver lining of this project? If they make that "proposed alley" an actual functioning street for (at least) bikes, with a sidewalk. That would be a very valuable connection.

Edited November 20, 2015 by SgtCampsalot

[UPNoDa]

Maybe they could do something like this to keep the PM folks at ease.....

Save the old church and incorporate it into the apartments. Now repurpose the church into Amélie's (sp) new PM location. Problem solved

[CLTProductions]

Woah, thats awesome, where is that?

[UPNoDa]

The exterior shots are of the Blue Diamond project in Toronto and the interior shot is of a church to pub conversion called O'Neills  just outside of London.

[archiham04]

there is token retail at the corner, no cars behind bars, interesting entry courtyard, decent ratio of masonry to eifs/ hardi board... it won't make the awards ceremony, but I don' think it will be our ugliest.

[Prodev]

Does token retail mean lobby, because there's no retail on that plan. 

[archiham04]

Token retail means that there is approximately 10k sf of space on the ground floor at the corner and around the entry courtyard that in my opinion could not be leased as residential space based upon its configuration in plan and elevation.  To me, this is area that the market could push to retail if the demand is there.  An improvement over some other buildings that have significantly less space available that can be converted in the future

Edited November 20, 2015 by archiham04

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35 minutes ago, Prodev said:

Does token retail mean lobby, because there's no retail on that plan. 

And does it mean it will include art you can view through the window?