Dilworth Projects (Kenilworth, Morehead, East)

[SouthEndCLT811]

This past week I had to go back to Cleveland for family stuff.  While up there I had a really good beer from Saucy Brew Works and remembered their proposal for Morehead.  Quick Google search brought back this link that shows updated on 2/8 with "Project Status    Design Development, Construction start expected March 2023".  We'll see if that's accurate but if so this will be a nice addition to the corridor!

https://www.constructionjournal.com/projects/details/45c131edc3c544c7afcfd292eb599ed1.html

[drawscape]

The skyline along Morehead is really rising. the right will be the Pearl District skyline in the not-to-distant future

[KJHburg]

The Morehead apartment towers under construction 12 story,  16 story, 26 story and 7 story apartment buildings in 2 blocks.  Plus the Addison office building a residential tower converted to boutique office building.    When people say Charlotte needs more density show them these 2 blocks and look at the gap between the high rises. 

[Hushpuppy321]

Please refresh my memory - East Blvd directly across from Freedom Park, what’s being built?  Two (2) Tower Cranes active at this site.

[KJHburg]

20 minutes ago, Hushpuppy321 said:

Please refresh my memory - East Blvd directly across from Freedom Park, what’s being built?  Two (2) Tower Cranes active at this site.

That is a luxury apartment complex I think Mr Jim Gross is involved can't remember the name.  

Edited March 4, 2023 by KJHburg
correction on the developer

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Jim Gross of Arlington and other high end homes in intown areas.

[KJHburg]

4 minutes ago, tarhoosier said:

Jim Gross of Arlington and other high end homes in intown areas.

I stand corrected that is the developer not Mr Levine.  

[nicholas]

[ricky_bobby_fan_26]

On 3/4/2023 at 5:58 PM, tarhoosier said:

Jim Gross of Arlington and other high end homes in intown areas.

Does anyone have renderings for this project?  I’ve seen one rendering attached to an article about the construction loan, but nothing else.  
 

What I did hear about the initial scale of the project vs what I see being built leads me to believe it may have been scaled back.  Does anyone know how many stories / how tall this will be?

 

Does anyone know if some of the other projects on East Blvd are still going to break ground soon?   Curious about the Epicurean Site, Starbucks/Keyman Building Site, and the Alpine Ski Center site.

[SydneyCarton]

Sorry in advance to those who, for some unfathomable reason, are antagonized by my posting screenshots from locked Observer articles. My hope is that someone with a subscription can post it.




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Synopsis of article: Southern Land has the right to build on the site  of Wyatt Leeper historic store and Tyber Creek restaurant. Clearwater owns property at corner of Worthington and Cleveland and proposed moving the store building to their lot to save the building. Now Clearwater says move too difficult and proposed lot too small to make move viable and Southern has to decide fate of Historic designated store building. 

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NASHVILLE DEVELOPER’S PLANS Southern Land announced two years ago that it would build a high-rise apartment tower at the corner of Tremont Avenue and South Boulevard. The building will include 300 units. It also will be home to a newly-expanded Tyber Creek Pub, which will close during construction. Southern Land expects to break ground likely by July, company spokeswoman Jenna Lefever told the Observer in an email. The developer purchased two additional parcels next to Tyber Creek for the project.

 

A Nashville developer is gearing up to start construction this year of a high-rise apartment tower at the edge of South End and Dilworth. What that means for a century-old historic landmark building on the property is not clear yet. Southern Land Company developed a plan last year to move the Leeper & Wyatt building —a longtime former grocery store — from its South Boulevard property to a nearby vacant lot. The lot is owned by Charlotte-based Clearwater Development Partners, which has worked alongside Southern Land on trying to save the building. Preliminary plans filed with the city last June show Clearwater was exploring options to adaptively reuse the building for commercial purposes. But the plan has run into hurdles due to cost and risk associated with the move, according to Clearwater.

 

Southern Land has saved other buildings, including two early 20th century buildings that were part of a mixed-use development in Denver. Southern Land is still evaluating options when it comes to a potential relocation of the Leeper & Wyatt building, Lefever wrote in her email. But no decisions have been made yet.

 

[KJHburg]

14 hours ago, ricky_bobby_fan_26 said:

Does anyone have renderings for this project?  I’ve seen one rendering attached to an article about the construction loan, but nothing else.  
 

What I did hear about the initial scale of the project vs what I see being built leads me to believe it may have been scaled back.  Does anyone know how many stories / how tall this will be?

 

Does anyone know if some of the other projects on East Blvd are still going to break ground soon?   Curious about the Epicurean Site, Starbucks/Keyman Building Site, and the Alpine Ski Center site.

https://clevelandconstruction.com/general-contracting/projects/east-boulevard-apartments

here is what those apartments will look like on East Blvd.  

this is a curious rendering of the new apartment complex  maybe this is what our skyline will look like in the future.

Edited March 10, 2023 by KJHburg

[AltNative]

Woof. This is shamefully bad. Like all around terrible with no redeeming qualities. I could go on for days

[CLT2014]

36 minutes ago, AltNative said:

Woof. This is shamefully bad. Like all around terrible with no redeeming qualities. I could go on for days

Agree... did they hire a 12 year old playing Minecraft to design this? 

[drawscape]

There is no way those are final renderings from an architecture firm, they have to be early conceptual renderings that were discarded due to be so ugly...........right?

[CLTdev18]

Just now, drawscape said:

There is no way those are final renderings from an architecture firm, they have to be early conceptual renderings that were discarded due to be so ugly...........right?

That's most likely correct. It's so easy to render complete projects these days, the renderings shown were most likely just to see the massing of the buildings.

The site plans that were submitted to the city are attached. There is some good info in there about the project.

2016785152_APPROVED-LDUPED-2022-00008-Vol1-of-2(1).pdf

[Madison Parkitect]

11 minutes ago, CLTdev18 said:

That's most likely correct. It's so easy to render complete projects these days, the renderings shown were most likely just to see the massing of the buildings.

The site plans that were submitted to the city are attached. There is some good info in there about the project.

2016785152_APPROVED-LDUPED-2022-00008-Vol1-of-2(1).pdf 62.53 MB · 1 download

Those can't possibly be the final renderings, no way. Definitely just massing models from SketchUp. Hilarious that they're out there in public though.

K2M's stuff is... fine. They're the ones who did the luxury condos in Myers Park with the exposed stairs and walkways. I actually like pieces of that project, but I wouldn't expect this one to be super-creative.

2 hours ago, tarhoosier said:

Synopsis of article: Southern Land has the right to build on the site  of Wyatt Leeper historic store and Tyber Creek restaurant. Clearwater owns property at corner of Worthington and Cleveland and proposed moving the store building to their lot to save the building. Now Clearwater says move too difficult and proposed lot too small to make move viable and Southern has to decide fate of Historic designated store building. 

The Historic Landmarks Commission may have something to say about it too, since this is a landmarked building.

[AltNative]

2 minutes ago, Madison Parkitect said:

K2M's stuff is... fine. They're the ones who did the luxury condos in Myers Park with the exposed stairs and walkways. 

 

You're telling me it wasn't an after-thought? I always figured the exposed stairs were a result of the building being fully designed and at the last minute they realized they needed another stair so instead of properly redesigning they just threw it on the exterior of the building. Sheesh.....Maybe they have low fees and that's how they get work?

[Reverie39]

2 hours ago, KJHburg said:

https://clevelandconstruction.com/general-contracting/projects/east-boulevard-apartments

here is what those apartments will look like on East Blvd.  

this is a curious rendering of the new apartment complex  maybe this is what our skyline will look like in the future.

I am cracking up at that skyline in the background lmao. Love how you can even see where it is copy and pasted.

[Madison Parkitect]

1 hour ago, AltNative said:

You're telling me it wasn't an after-thought? I always figured the exposed stairs were a result of the building being fully designed and at the last minute they realized they needed another stair so instead of properly redesigning they just threw it on the exterior of the building. Sheesh.....Maybe they have low fees and that's how they get work?

Ha, the stairs/walkways and the large-scale precast frame system around them is actually the part of the project I like. It's at least visually interesting.

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That Myers Park project you mention, Opus Myers park, is a Jim Gross project, same as this one. 

When the Opus was in construction I saw a 3D visualization of at least some of the units. The subtitles for the visualizations were in English and Chinese.

Jim Gross was a neighbor in Dilworth for some time and our paths have crossed intermittently since that time. He studied architecture at UNCC as a student. He purchased, lived in, renovated and sold two or three houses in the neighborhood and then moved on to others pursuits. He is responsible for Factory South (former Lance Plant)  and the Arlington, the desert rose tower on adjoining property on South Boulevard.

He bought the Temple Israel property at Dilworth Road and Mount Vernon and developed Dilworth Crescent. Later he developed Carmel Crescent.

Factory South was his first large scale project and he told me he learned from it. One thing was to limit those with advance deposits from flipping their interests. He would walk through the under construction building and encounter real estate agents chaperoning interested parties and he asked what they were doing. They represented a depositor and were selling their units against his own inventory. 

[KJHburg]

the 3 Morehead corridor towers rising from uptown today.  I see 4 cranes in the 2nd shot including the Wake Forest Med school tower. 

Edited March 17, 2023 by KJHburg

[jtmonk]

12 hours ago, KJHburg said:

the 3 Morehead corridor towers rising from uptown today.  I see 4 cranes in the 2nd shot including the Wake Forest Med school tower. 

You can actually see 6 cranes, maybe even a 7th in the south park area but it's too blurry to make out.   There are 4 cranes for the Morehead towers, a fifth at the med school, and 6th is in the tree line next to the med school tower. 

[KJHburg]

I saw this from Choate Construction about the Villages of Morehead the new senior high rise apartment complex.

https://efamagazine.com/projects/the-village-on-morehead-first-look/#slide-1

[kermit]

Crane going up at Campbell’s greenhouse. Very glad they are done with pounding pilings.