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Street Level Retail in Downtown Charlotte

monsoon

By monsoon
in Charlotte

Are they developing Great Retail in Downtown Charlotte?  

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  1. 1. Are they developing Great Retail in Downtown Charlotte? (Please read the Link first)

    • No - It still misses the mark, too much focus on the building, not people
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    • Yes - It great and getting better
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    • I don't believe that document
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Andyc545 Burg

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Just trying to put things in perspective... but for those curious and already familiar with the retail space in Charlotte... Hearst Tower has 900k rentable square feet and BofA has about 1.2m sqfeet...

Also a side note, I did notice some street level retail going up at the Arena today. Maybe I'm behind things, but there were a few shops putting up signs, etc. from what I could see driving by...

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Raintree21 Town

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The Soup Nazi (from Seinfeld) is coming to Charlotte! Or at least one of his franchises will be opening up in the Hearst Tower on July 24th. The Original Soupman will sell soups, salads, and sandwiches with soup prices ranging from $4.95 to $8.95 for a cup and $6.95 to $8.95 for a bowl.

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BUILDIT Whistle-Stop

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yeah I know about all of those (for the most part) and have eaten at most, but all those places are expensive. I am thinking more of cheaper local kinda places. I go to Providence a lot, because it is literally a minute walk from my house, but in uptown, I dont see a lot of original shops for a good lunch that isnt a chain, but maybe I am blind.

BTW Sonoma is my favorite

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lukedog Whistle-Stop

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I keep hearing about people wanting inexpensive restaurants downtown but is that realistic? How much would someone expect to pay for a lease (per month) if they wanted to open a restaurant in uptown...say 2000 sq.Feet at Hurst Tower? This of course is just rent...not what it would cost to design and decorate the place. With prices as high as I think they would be the cost of everything downtown is going to remain high.

This is another reason for franchises...I believe franchises can absorb more cost that an individual owner.

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BUILDIT Whistle-Stop

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probably true, in a market where most of the space is in new expensive office buildings, the leases get expensive, if we had an older section of buildings.... maybe, now that I am thinking about it, I have gone to Alexander Michaels twice and thats very good too

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Justadude Burg

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Green's Lunch is an excellent cheap-o uptown restaurant. Burgers and dogs and the like, really cheap; the only problem is they don't take plastic so you have to think ahead. But seriously, it's as "Charlotte" as any place and totally worth a visit.

Off the top of my head, other centrally-located local cheap joints include: Fuel, Belle's, Price's, Penguin, House of Pizza, Thomas St. Tavern, South 21, BBQ King, Beauregard's (super under-rated), Open Kitchen, and lots more that I don't have time to type out.

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Charlotte_native City

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Downtown (in the loop) cheap eats that aren't chain:

Lolas, Tic Toc, Matts Chicago Dogs, KO Sushi, pizza place on MLK, Spoons, Rainbow Deli, lots of places in Overstreet but i don't go there so I don't know what they are called, Presto, Chinese place at Gateway, Bytes at Gateway, Picassos, Graduate, Brixx, Ri-Ra, does Connellys or Madisons serve food?, Daddy's, Belles, Stool Pigeons, places in the bottom of Ivey's condos, Grand Central, Rock Bottom, Al Mikes, Suruchis, Showmars (OK, local chain), Cosmos, Merts, Noodle place on Tryon, Corner Pub...

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Spartan Gigalopolis

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Rock Bottom Brewery? Thats a huge chain. They have them all over the nation.

Groucho's Deli is out of Columbia. Its a small chain though. I didn't even know they had them outside of Columbia. Where is the one in Charlotte?

Anyway- I didn't mean to get the discussion bogged down on chains though. Your point is well taken- there are plenty of local or at least regional chains (which are as good as local to me) to support. As far as retail in Uptown is concerned- I don't think there are enough national retail or restaurants. Admittedly I have not been all over Uptown yet, so there are undoubtedly some that I haven't discovered yet. But the fact remains that there is room for everyone, so bing them on.

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New Name Burg

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That is correct. It is considered a hotel / casino / restraunt combo, so there is gambling. It would be nice to see one here, but I think the city would have to become a bit more on the tourist scale before one would be built, plus theres one in Atlanta and Myrtle, plus the New Hard Rock Park is going up in Myrtle. Also, it doesn't seem that hard rock really builds in downtowns too much, they tend to keep in more on tourist outskirts (thinking of Myrtle and Niagara Falls)
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Neo City

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Rock Bottom is barely a chain thoguh, the first restaurant/brewery was in Atlanta, then they opened one here, so assuming they are out of Atlanta.

Rock Bottom has several locations throughout the states but the ones in Atlanta and Charlotte are separate from the chain from what I recall. They only share the logo and the name, the menu, etc. are independent and they are independently ran.

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