Midtown Fayetteville

[wmr]

I thought it might be useful to have a thread for Midtown development, since not all of the new development happening is along College Ave.

Here's is a new row of townhouses in a development called "Abshier Heights", which is directly behind Evelyn Hills Shopping Center.  These first two look like thye have massive front porches/decks.  Pretty decent modernism.

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Here are a few articles about the mountain bike trail improvements coming for Gregory Park:

https://www.fayettevilleflyer.com/2016/12/15/19-acre-mountain-bike-park-planned-in-fayetteville/

 

https://www.fayettevilleflyer.com/2016/12/30/more-volunteers-needed-for-mountain-bike-trail-clearing-at-gregory-park/

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Here's a link to the New School expansion project.  Phase I is underway, and new construction is visible from Township.

 

 

https://www.thenewschool.org/forever/the-vision

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Here's a new retail building going in next to Tacos 4 Life.  And a view of those Abshier Heights condos behind.

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Here are a couple of pictures of a dense apartment/townhome development under construction on Sycamore, a block off College Avenue.  This is west of the Daisy Exchange building that replaced the decrepit old Long John Silver's last year.

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Here's an update on those apartments on Sycamore.  They sit a 1/2 block west of the Daisy Exchange building.  I also noticed that the SW corner which used to be a bar is shown as "under contract".  If that site redevelops in a similar form-based format as these two projects, there will be a nice little node of density at that intersection.

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Here's one of the New School buildings underway from Township, and the new furniture store being put where the old military surplus store used to be next to Pesto Cafe.

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Found this rendering of the Starbucks building that is supposed to go in next to CVS on College north of Township.  I noticed they were building retaining walls around the site today.

[strmchsr77]

Pretty much the same as the rest of their Starbucks anchored developments.  I guess if they concept works then go with it.

[wmr]

Updates on Bolder Coffe (old Arvest) and Weathered Goods.

 

They knocked down the entire old bank drive thru.

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Here's the finished product of the building that replaced the old EZ mart.  Looks like it is a free-standing Verizon store.  Nothing exciting, but a huge improvement for that lot.

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The former Taco Bell on North College Ave is now showing as being "Under Contract".  

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IntaJuice is taking over the former Taco Bell spot north of Sycamore, on College Ave:

 

https://www.fayettevilleflyer.com/2017/07/11/former-taco-bell-location-on-college-avenue-to-get-new-tenant/

[OzarkSingleSpeed]

Rockhill Studios is having an open house and ribbon cutting this week at their location on Township Street ... unique business being a state of the art video production house co-owned by actress Joey Lauren Adams (Chasing Amy, Dazed & Confused, Dig Daddy), her husband plus some veterans of the film industry.

https://www.fayettevilleflyer.com/2018/04/20/rockhill-studio-betting-on-fayetteville-as-new-filmmaking-hotspot/

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It looks like the city is going to raze and remove the old house that sits back off College just south of Formosa restaurant.  That spot would make a nice little park, as it sits in the floodway as far as I know.

[OzarkSingleSpeed]

The former 'Pleasure Dome' building is gone ... demolished on Thursday / Friday.  A MediServe walk-in clinic will be built on  the corner of College Avenue and Sycamore Street with an expected opening this fall.