Dilworth Projects (Kenilworth, Morehead, East)

[Blue_Devil]

5 minutes ago, kermit said:

Not as action packed as David’s picts, but it is a very photogenic crane, which happens to be adjacent to quite a few UPers.

I hope it doesn’t fall on me while I sleep (but my neighbors 150 year old oaks are probably a bigger risk)

 

I am curious how often I have walked by you when walking my dog now 

[davidclt]

3 hours ago, kermit said:

Not as action packed as David’s picts, but it is a very photogenic crane, which happens to be adjacent to quite a few UPers.

I hope it doesn’t fall on me while I sleep (but my neighbors 150 year old oaks are probably a bigger risk)

Get out of my head . I was thinking about the potential for the crane falling this morning.

 

[QCxpat]

Today 9:55 a.m.

Edited April 6, 2023 by QCxpat

[Reverie39]

1 hour ago, QCxpat said:

Today 9:55 a.m.

This is such a cool view with all the bridges. Will look amazing when all that construction finishes.

[DJ8hep]

The Campbell project today!

[BJKM]

From my Deloitte Tower perch

 

[QCxpat]

Today 8:20 a.m.

Edited April 13, 2023 by QCxpat

[KJHburg]

The 3 apartments tower from afar.  Today.  Morehead rising!  Charlotte's Park Avenue. 

[KJHburg]

a central Dilworth rezoning is controversial (who would have guessed that? ) at the Starbucks site on East Blvd.

"""Neighbors are pushing back on SunCap Property Group's plan to build a 300,000-square-foot development in the heart of Dilworth.

The $90 million project is expected to include up to 300 multifamily units, ground-floor retail and office space, according to previous CBJ reporting. The bulk of the project — about 270,000 square feet — is expected to be multifamily, with 15,000 square feet of retail and 20,000 square feet of office space.

Collin Brown, of local law firm Alexander Ricks, spoke on behalf of SunCap at a public hearing during last night's Charlotte City Council zoning meeting. Brown said the petition changed since it was first filed with the city in March 2022. Originally, SunCap wanted to rezone 2.01 acres at East Boulevard and Scott Avenue to mixed-use development district, from its current zoning.

 After various community meetings and a look at the city's unified development ordinance, which takes effect on June 1, SunCap determined that it only needed to rezone the 0.28-acre Starbucks property.  

The zoning change will allow for a building height of up to 65 feet with the opportunity for bonus height that could make the building as tall as 80 feet. Gary Klasen, president of the 1315 East Condominium Association, said this is what he and many other residents of 1315 East are unhappy about.

"The owners and residents of our 142 condos are not against planned and reasonable growth," he said. "An 80-foot height on this, or any future parcels, is inconsistent with the character of our distinctive neighborhood ... (and) sets a trend for all future parcels, leading to increased density, significant congestion and potentially lower property values"""

full story here https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2023/04/18/suncap-property-group-rezoning-dilworth-project.html

 

[KJHburg]

More on this from the Community Meeting reports and some illustrations of what it might look like

https://www.charlottenc.gov/files/sharedassets/city/growth-and-development/planning-and-zoning/rezoning/documents/2022-petitions/community-meeting-reports/2022_037_cmr.pdf

2nd meeting notes on this project

https://www.charlottenc.gov/files/sharedassets/city/growth-and-development/planning-and-zoning/rezoning/documents/2022-petitions/community-meeting-reports/2022_037_cmr_2.pdf

[Guest]

2 hours ago, KJHburg said:

a central Dilworth rezoning is controversial (who would have guessed that? ) at the Starbucks site on East Blvd.

"""Neighbors are pushing back on SunCap Property Group's plan to build a 300,000-square-foot development in the heart of Dilworth.

The $90 million project is expected to include up to 300 multifamily units, ground-floor retail and office space, according to previous CBJ reporting. The bulk of the project — about 270,000 square feet — is expected to be multifamily, with 15,000 square feet of retail and 20,000 square feet of office space.

Collin Brown, of local law firm Alexander Ricks, spoke on behalf of SunCap at a public hearing during last night's Charlotte City Council zoning meeting. Brown said the petition changed since it was first filed with the city in March 2022. Originally, SunCap wanted to rezone 2.01 acres at East Boulevard and Scott Avenue to mixed-use development district, from its current zoning.

 After various community meetings and a look at the city's unified development ordinance, which takes effect on June 1, SunCap determined that it only needed to rezone the 0.28-acre Starbucks property.  

The zoning change will allow for a building height of up to 65 feet with the opportunity for bonus height that could make the building as tall as 80 feet. Gary Klasen, president of the 1315 East Condominium Association, said this is what he and many other residents of 1315 East are unhappy about.

"The owners and residents of our 142 condos are not against planned and reasonable growth," he said. "An 80-foot height on this, or any future parcels, is inconsistent with the character of our distinctive neighborhood ... (and) sets a trend for all future parcels, leading to increased density, significant congestion and potentially lower property values"""

full story here https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2023/04/18/suncap-property-group-rezoning-dilworth-project.html

 

This is completely asinine. 1315 East is 8 floors at its tallest. Isn’t an 8 floor residential building about 80 feet tall??? How is this not the most blatant form of hypocrisy? How is their building “consistent with the character of (their) distinctive neighborhood” but this new one isn’t? Am I missing something?

[kermit]

^ as a fellow neighborhood resident who can currently see five cranes from my front porch (six if not for leaves on trees), I feel the need to politely tell the Dilworth NIMBYs  “go F’ yourselves”. We all gotta do our share to provide housing for Charlotte, this building is a sensible way to do that, it doesn't even destroy any historic structures.

Plus, higher density = better neighborhood restaurants 

Edited April 20, 2023 by kermit

[RANYC]

7 hours ago, kermit said:

^ as a neighborhood resident who can currently see five cranes  from my front porch, I feel the need to say the NIMBYs should  go F’ themselves. We all gotta do our share to provide housing for Charlotte, this building is a sensible way to do that.

Plenty of empty lots for up-zoning here in the west end, and we're as close and in some cases, closer to Uptown than in Dilworth, and the lots happen to be along a fixed transit line to boot.  I doubt they'd meet with resistance here.   

Edited April 19, 2023 by RANYC

[Prodev]

9 hours ago, MothBeast said:

This is completely asinine. 1315 East is 8 floors at its tallest. Isn’t an 8 floor residential building about 80 feet tall??? How is this not the most blatant form of hypocrisy? How is their building “consistent with the character of (their) distinctive neighborhood” but this new one isn’t? Am I missing something?

Per the presentation, 1315 East is 88' tall and what suncap is proposing is 85' tall. I've been in the developers position in this exact argument before and it's so hard not to just destroy the person trying to make this argument against the development, so I give them credit for appearing to bite their tongue. 

[JorgiPorgi]

All I ask is that any new developments built in Dilworth or any of Charlotte’s historic neighborhoods, at least hold the character of the neighborhood. There are too many 5 story surburban looking office buildings being approved and built, in neighborhoods they don’t fit in. It doesn’t matter to me if it’s 100 feet tall, just make it aesthetically fit in to the neighborhood. 

[Reverie39]

Dilworth is pretty especially with all the trees. But it is a little crazy to see so much single family housing RIGHT NEXT to the urban core and downtown of a major city. It really places constraints on the development of Charlotte, having to basically wrap around this massive low-density chunk of land. You don't really see neighborhoods like this in other cities of 3 million people. Some amount of densification on its edges is absolutely necessary.

[kermit]

22 minutes ago, Reverie39 said:

 You don't really see neighborhoods like this in other cities of 3 million people.

Not sure I agree, places like the Annex in Toronto, Virginia Highland in Atlanta, Hays Barton in Raleigh, Fisher Park in Gboro (OK, both of these are much smaller than 3 million), Indian Village in Detroit, all over MSP... feel much the same as Dilworth to me. I think its just a product of urban growth being concentrated in the auto-era so new housing production mostly by-passed the streetcar suburbs. Your  right, you don't really see these sorts of places that saw their greatest growth before WWII.

I would also say that densification is coming to the edges of the neighborhood along South blvd, over by the Hospital / Morehead and (possibly) around East and Kennilworth. I do think we will see _some_ ADUs (there are already a few) and a few new 'plexes (there are also a handful of these already) built soon which will help densify the interior of the hood. I think more effort is being made to densify Dilworth than any other South Charlotte hood (which is not to say its enough, but change is happening).  

Edited April 21, 2023 by kermit

[Hushpuppy321]

I noticed that Cleveland Construction is the General Contractor for the East Blvd Development (Near Freedom Park) and things  seem to be progressing quickly.  A real difference from the Glacial pace of things at the Carolina Theater Renovation.

Edited April 23, 2023 by Hushpuppy321

[QCxpat]

Today 10:15 a.m.

Edited April 23, 2023 by QCxpat

[KJHburg]

The 4 towers on the Morehead corridor from the 17 story in the Gold district on W Morehead to the 3 high rises and 1 mid rise on E Morehead.  

[BJKM]

[kermit]

^ Fill that moat! (with either housing or water or parks or transit or office or medical school or a rodeo clown academy)

What an appalling waste of space

Edited May 10, 2023 by kermit

[KJHburg]

I spy 4 cranes from 277.  Today.    Need a car wash after my trip to Tidewater VA, 

[QCxpat]

Today 8:55 a.m.

Edited May 11, 2023 by QCxpat

[Hushpuppy321]

Actually love the ‘Canyon Effect’ when I drive down the portion of I-277 from Kenilworth towards I-77.   Charlotte is really developing impressively.