Charlotte Photo of the Day

[KJHburg]

this day 6 years ago in 2018.  still one of my favorite views.  

[KJHburg]

sun finally popped out so here are a couple of dense uptown shots.  

[Windsurfer]

9 hours ago, KJHburg said:

sun finally popped out so here are a couple of dense uptown shots.  

Wow. Is that actually the city where I grew up?

[DJ8hep]

A few random shots from this afternoon!

[hinsp0]

[turbocraig]

This is a snapshot from the Biz Journal.  I love this angle of the city.  I went through and found the only buildings in this entire image that existed when I moved here in 1994 (my God, time flies).  Not even the stadium was there.  That’s a massive amount of construction in 30 years. 

 

*edit - and BofA CC had only been completed 18 months before that!

Edited March 12 by turbocraig

[Rickybobby]

 Excellent views from the 8th floor of Novant Presbyterian! 

[Windsurfer]

3 hours ago, Rickybobby said:

 Excellent views from the 8th floor of Novant Presbyterian! 

Isn't that the new baby ward? 

I see "Anderson's" down there. Boy, do I miss their pancakes. Can still taste them.

[Rickybobby]

8 minutes ago, Windsurfer said:

Isn't that the new baby ward? 

I see "Anderson's" down there. Boy, do I miss their pancakes. Can still taste them.

I figured someone would catch that reference point! Had #2 yesterday, hoping to wrap up our stay here shortly! 

[DMann]

Congrat's!

Edited March 14 by DMann

[TheMightyBK]

Seconded!

Great view, too!  Aside from the parking lots, that is.

[DJ8hep]

Thought taking a few cliche photos to start out this weekend would be good!

[XRZ.ME]

[SoDoSoPa]

Uptown at sunset, with the SouthEnd rising up. 

[Norm2]

South End has a lot of flat roofs. Hopefully someone will switch that up at some point

[CLT Development]

3 hours ago, SoDoSoPa said:

Uptown at sunset, with the SouthEnd rising up. 

Linea really turned out so much taller than I would have ever expected.

[Guest]

Ready for South Ends new tallest on the Tyber Creek site!

[QCxpat]

March  18, 2024,  red bud and cherry trees in Romare Bearden Park herald the arrival of spring tomorrow at 11:06 p.m. EDT

 

Link: https://www.farmersalmanac.com/spring-equinox-first-day-spring

Edited March 18 by QCxpat

[CLT Development]

23 hours ago, MothBeast said:

Ready for South Ends new tallest on the Tyber Creek site!

That'll be Queensbridge, but it could be the second tallest for now.

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, CLT Development said:

That'll be Queensbridge, but it could be the second tallest for now.

Was waiting for someone to correct me. Queensbridge is definitely feeding off the Uptown market rather than the new South End corridor developing along East/West/ Camden. Of course I’m splitting hairs, but I do think there is a distinction between the areas

Edited March 18 by MothBeast

[KJHburg]

I wasn't in town today but my friend was and took these shots.  Looks like a great day in the Queen City! 

 

[CarolinaCrown]

[Windsurfer]

2 hours ago, CarolinaCrown said:

Just look at the effect of light rail!  It's like the new main street.   Great shot

[704Dimitri]

[MarcoPolo]

Yes, @Windsurfer light rail has certainly "scaled up"  the density of the corridor, but I wouldn't rush to christen it a Main Street just yet.  To truly be classified as such it would need to pedestrianize itself and embrace the development it has given birth to.  At the moment it is still a rail line, buffered along almost every foot of its length, except at actual stations.   Walking along the non-station segments  has the look and feel one would expect along the edges of many suburban office parks, and apartment complexes, festooned with bushes, berms and fencing.  It is still a barrier to pedestrians.  The photo @CarolinaCrown posted is beautiful and engaging until you look down and study the rail line itself.  Pretty bleak and uninviting.  The "Main Street" action the Blue Line has generated is almost entirely  "off line" so to speak  

For wonderful examples of Main Streets and other streetscapes that combine both light rail / tram with pedestrian oriented streets, plazas, and spaces, which engage properly with adjoining development one needs to look mostly abroad.  I'll post some pictures of wonderful examples later of a few projects I've worked on in Athens Greece (not Georgia), and Paris (you know where Paris is).   To  quickly see what I'm talking about just Google  "light rail pedestrian corridors" in Athens, Paris, Europe etc.   You'll see images such as those attached here.  

In most countries that incorporate light rail/trams into a system of transportation, the vehicles and tracks are physically part of the civic realm through which the pass.  People engage with them as they do cars, and for us in the US, monster cars and trucks.  I can already see the DOT minded twitching and convulsing possibly even apoplectic at the thought of such craziness!   Yet the world still turns and the sun rises in the east in all these places with nowhere near the daily carnage experienced here in the States by the walking and biking  public.

Fingers crossed for the day we are allowed to redesign the blue line corridor to actually become a Main Street.