Charlotte Photo of the Day

[CarolinaCrown]

Prosperity Ridge Townhomes (Pulte) and Apartments (Greystar) as well as the overall mixed use outparcels are now filling with occupants!

[nakers2]

Few shots from an engineer friend in Southend, really shows the North/South orientation of our skyline. 

[KJHburg]

Was your engineer friend on the top floor of the Portman apartment tower?  that is a great view up the LYNX line. 

[DownEast]

Great shots. Morehead and Stonewall really starting to help with that linear situation.  Scrolling further with med school, Pappas, and the controversial "it's not a park" tower at the Met. Nice spine developing to the SE.

[cityboi]

[KJHburg]

Great photo from a flyover today at Charlotte Motor Speedway.  From X. 

[DJ8hep]

15 hours ago, cityboi said:

 

 

 

Great photos @cityboi! Definitely giving Charlotte big city vibes!

Here are a few I took from Independence Park yesterday!

[cityboi]

1 hour ago, DJ8hep said:

Great photos @cityboi! Definitely giving Charlotte big city vibes!

Here are a few I took from Independence Park yesterday!

Those are great! Its actually a great day to get out and take some photos Its amazing how tall and dense Charlotte's skyline is from above! A lot has changed since my UNC Charlotte days back in the lake 90s. Charlotte probably has the 3rd best skyline in the Southeast after Miami and Atlanta and quite frankly over the next 10 years it will be better than Atlanta. Just imagine more towers going up in Southend all the way to uptown. There is also potential for Charlotte's skyline to expand east in uptown. As far as outside of upown, what do you think the potential is of a South Park skyline like Buckhead in Atlanta?

Edited May 27 by cityboi

[Norm2]

2 hours ago, cityboi said:

Those are great! Its actually a great day to get out and take some photos Its amazing how tall and dense Charlotte's skyline is from above! A lot has changed since my UNC Charlotte days back in the lake 90s. Charlotte probably has the 3rd best skyline in the Southeast after Miami and Atlanta and quite frankly over the next 10 years it will be better than Atlanta. Just imagine more towers going up in Southend all the way to uptown. There is also potential for Charlotte's skyline to expand east in uptown. As far as outside of upown, what do you think the potential is of a South Park skyline like Buckhead in Atlanta?

I don't think Southpark will develop much of a skyline, as many single-family homes in the area would block any attempts at building tall towers.

[KJHburg]

2 hours ago, cityboi said:

Those are great! Its actually a great day to get out and take some photos Its amazing how tall and dense Charlotte's skyline is from above! A lot has changed since my UNC Charlotte days back in the lake 90s. Charlotte probably has the 3rd best skyline in the Southeast after Miami and Atlanta and quite frankly over the next 10 years it will be better than Atlanta. Just imagine more towers going up in Southend all the way to uptown. There is also potential for Charlotte's skyline to expand east in uptown. As far as outside of upown, what do you think the potential is of a South Park skyline like Buckhead in Atlanta?

I dont think Southpark will get much taller than it is today.  Tallest is only 14 stories and I dont see anything on the horizon taller than that.  Several 10 story buildings in the works and maybe something a little higher but nothing like 20-30-40 story towers or more like Buckhead.  However Ballantyne has a 26 story apartment tower so you might see others in that range out there.  

1 minute ago, Norm2 said:

I don't think Southpark will develop much of a skyline, as many single-family homes in the area would block any attempts at building tall towers.

we were typing at the same time dittos to your comment.  

[KJHburg]

Fifth Third Center parking deck uptown:    Somebody call Cousins! 

This is the photo of the day and from the Charlotte Fire Department socials:

If you’re wondering who gets cars out of a sticky situation, that would be Charlotte Fire firefighters. Charlotte Fire responded to a vehicle dangling from the 9th floor of a parking deck. Charlotte Fire firefighters facilitated a plan to get the vehicle stabilized. The vehicle was unoccupied. After tireless efforts by all, the vehicle was stabilized and the incident was controlled by Charlotte Fire firefighters in 41 minutes. But, we don’t validate parking.

[KJHburg]

From the KJ vault.  Photos I took in May 1990 34 years ago.  Notice I loved taking photos from I-77 and I-277 John Belk and still do! 

Let's see who can guess the tower under construction?   I had to really think about it and finally cheated and looked it up thinking it was something else.   Many many towers missing!  

 

[Windsurfer]

13 minutes ago, KJHburg said:

From the KJ vault.  Photos I took in May 1990 34 years ago.  Notice I loved taking photos from I-77 and I-277 John Belk and still do! 

Let's see who can guess the tower under construction?   I had to really think about it and finally cheated and looked it up thinking it was something else.   Many many towers missing!  

 

BOA HQ

[turbocraig]

5 hours ago, KJHburg said:

From the KJ vault.  Photos I took in May 1990 34 years ago.  Notice I loved taking photos from I-77 and I-277 John Belk and still do! 

Let's see who can guess the tower under construction?   I had to really think about it and finally cheated and looked it up thinking it was something else.   Many many towers missing!  

 

Interstate Tower (City Club building).

[KJHburg]

4 hours ago, turbocraig said:

Interstate Tower (City Club building).

Correct built as the 32 story Interstate Johnson Lane tower anchored by a stock brokerage firm.  

[KJHburg]

today skyline shots from the south and one from the heights of Villa Heights.  

[DJ8hep]

Another cliché view that never gets old… 

[SydneyCarton]

 

Uptown Charlotte on Instgram

Edited June 14 by SydneyCarton

[CLT Development]

9 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

 

Uptown Charlotte on Instgram

*And the flat earthers were silenced*

[SydneyCarton]

On 6/12/2024 at 10:30 PM, DJ8hep said:

Another cliché view that never gets old… 

I agree.  301 S. College has always been one of my favorite buildings in Charlotte.  It was fairly new when I first came to Charlotte around 1989.  The city at that time was a small, truly southern town, but it appealed to me from that very first time.  

[KJHburg]

Couple of skyline shots from various points.  

[tarhoosier]

This is how to shield a parking deck. Trumpet honeysuckle on the CPCC deck at 7th and Independence. This is the side facing American Legion stadium. In person the orange blossoms are more prominent.

Young trees will be great in a few years if they survive the heat, as will we all. 

Has anyone here sucked honey from honeysuckle? Years ago my neighbor, a nine year old boy showed me how.  I was astounded. A southern tradition.

 

 

this is how 

[KJHburg]

6 years ago today and something is missing.  Where is the small parking attendant hut that sat on that surface lot?

 

and these photos were taken 8 years ago.  Such high hopes for the Ascent UPtown apartment tower.

 

[KJHburg]

still the tallest and still the best.  today.