Misc. Uptown Projects/News

[ArchiCLT]

18 hours ago, Madison Parkitect said:

You know, the part that's specifically NOT the alley part.

Latta Arcade is the interior portion of the building - aka the arcade.

Brevard Court is the name of the exterior alley.

[Madison Parkitect]

1 hour ago, ArchiCLT said:

Latta Arcade is the interior portion of the building - aka the arcade.

Brevard Court is the name of the exterior alley.

Right, but the new owners are changing the name of the interior (i.e. specifically NOT the alley part) to "The Alley."

[nicholas]

Anyone see Jason Thomas's post?  382 unit mf with 21k sq ft of retail planned for Stadium View Dr and S Cedar St next to the Panthers practice bubble.  No renderings yet but will include saving The Foundry building.

[CharlotteWkndBuzz]

Is this going to be a mid rise or high rise? Guess we’ll find out soon enough but that would be huge to get some height in that part of the city. 21k retail also tells me they also have faith in the area and the potential entertainment district. A lot of potential in that area (semi blank canvas). 

[Prodev]

On 4/28/2023 at 3:36 PM, CharlotteWkndBuzz said:

Is this going to be a mid rise or high rise? Guess we’ll find out soon enough but that would be huge to get some height in that part of the city. 21k retail also tells me they also have faith in the area and the potential entertainment district. A lot of potential in that area (semi blank canvas). 

It's wood-framed midrise

[Matthew.Brendan]

is this entire thing just a parking deck?

[CLTProductions]

Yes

[CharlotteWkndBuzz]

This is a dangerous game of spotting out parking decks lol. Church st would all be red circles. However, I do give them credit of retrofitting some of those places with retail. 
 

Seriously though, once that deck circled above and the old duke place get redeveloped, game-changing for the area. Would really help LU retail as well imo although the lunch crowd now could support LU retail if they ever did anything in there…

[KJHburg]

12 hours ago, CharlotteWkndBuzz said:

This is a dangerous game of spotting out parking decks lol. Church st would all be red circles. However, I do give them credit of retrofitting some of those places with retail. 
 

Seriously though, once that deck circled above and the old duke place get redeveloped, game-changing for the area. Would really help LU retail as well imo although the lunch crowd now could support LU retail if they ever did anything in there…

that deck was purchased and at some point it will be several towers more than likely but first the old Duke building on S Church needs to be converted.  

[RANYC]

I find downtown Dallas to be depressing and not very walkable in most places, relative to Charlotte for sure.  But I did enjoy the parking garage design in the pics below.  If you’re going to have parking garages and can enforce design standards,  I think you can achieve very broad downtown accessibility and some aesthetic enhancements to the streetscape.

[ClassicColtrane]

Looked out the window at the office and the tree line along Tryon caught my eye, as always.

Also no evidence of the Intercontinental Hotel starting quite yet. 

[KJHburg]

things seen uptown this morning.  

[kermit]

Its an opinion piece but the Post has a really nice discussion of Calgary's successful efforts to convert much of its vacant office space to residential.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/18/calgary-downtown-revitalization-plan/

At the core of the plan:

Quote

The biggest takeaway is to go big and bold. Calgary launched its turnaround plan with 200 million Canadian dollars and a goal to invest 1 billion in the next decade. It included incentives of up to 75 Canadian dollars per square foot for developers, and — equally important — City Hall sped up the permitting process to less than two months. So many developers applied that it was akin to a bidding war.

I take a couple of things from it:

• Office to residential conversion is certainly possible
• Conversion subsidies help and are successful in arresting long-term decline
• Streamlined permitting is a big deal
• We (Charlotte) probably shouldn't wait to long to begin this process. How long are we going to twiddle our thumbs while uptown declines due to shifts to hybrid work?

Edited May 18, 2023 by kermit

[j-man]

[RANYC]

Can't quite recall the user name, but someone posted on twitter that a 22-story mixed-use building at 800 N Tryon Street is either filing for building permits or has just received building permits.  Is anyone familiar with this?

[KJHburg]

2 hours ago, RANYC said:

Can't quite recall the user name, but someone posted on twitter that a 22-story mixed-use building at 800 N Tryon Street is either filing for building permits or has just received building permits.  Is anyone familiar with this?

at one point I heard about a hotel on that little lot or an apartment tower but have not heard anything recently.  

Here is the marketing flyer for the piece of land.

https://thenicholscompany.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/North-Tryon-St-800_V2-1.pdf

Edited May 20, 2023 by KJHburg

[atlrvr]

On 5/20/2023 at 12:49 PM, RANYC said:

Can't quite recall the user name, but someone posted on twitter that a 22-story mixed-use building at 800 N Tryon Street is either filing for building permits or has just received building permits.  Is anyone familiar with this?

From the land-use approval filing:

 

Project Description:

800 N. Tryon Street A mixed use tower consisting of 22 floors with a mixed use of parking, retail, condos, hotels with restaurant and meeting rooms.

[RANYC]

2 minutes ago, atlrvr said:

From the land-use approval filing:

 

Project Description:

800 N. Tryon Street A mixed use tower consisting of 22 floors with a mixed use of parking, retail, condos, hotels with restaurant and meeting rooms.

OK, so a land-use approval doesn't really mean ground-breaking is imminent OR that there are concrete plans, correct?  

Edited May 22, 2023 by RANYC

[atlrvr]

I would say there are advanced plans, but concrete plans would be an over-statement.

There are extensive approvals required as far as the land-use plan for urban districts, and projects can change based on feedback from reviewers as well as evolving project scope.

I'd speculate the amount of architectural, civil engineering, and other consultants (landscape architects, traffic consultants, etc) for this scale of project needed for this level of submission is probably ball-park $2mm so far invested by a developer.

As far as timing....submitting land-use  plans is part of the project approval process, as in, it can't happen without the filing.

Anecdotally, I'd say roughly 75% of projects the file urban land-use permits eventually get built, and typical lag is probably ~12 months from initial submission until building foundation work begins.

[videtur quam contuor]

Q: How many dark sport jackets and suits and dress shirts, ties, belts and black dress shoes do I need?

A: Fewer than I have.

Purge of the closet this weekend including wool socks(?) wool sweater, vests and other lightly used and clean, quality clothing. Rescue mission is destination. KJ mentioned this some time ago and I concur that this is a good location for your benevolence. This is the new building with housing on the top two floors, lower floors for community services, AA/NA meetings, administration, chapel, etc. and future expansion.

 

One of two original buildings facing First Street. Building on left was Humble Oil, now XOM Exxon Mobil. Hanging air conditioners in glass block fenestration. When did glass blocks appear and disappear as architectural elements?

Building here is 100+ years old. Connection was made between the two by Humble Oil. Older building will be saved. Newer(ish) building future use or existence is undecided. Bill Lockley told this to me when I was there today and he wore a red polo shirt with the Mission logo.

[KJHburg]

Uptown Development map from Lincoln Harris website. 

https://www.lincolnharris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Uptown-Development-Map-Q1-2023.pdf

[J-Rob]

10 hours ago, KJHburg said:

Uptown Development map from Lincoln Harris website. 

https://www.lincolnharris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Uptown-Development-Map-Q1-2023.pdf

That map is interesting. Its from Q1 2023, but lists Centene as a relocation/expansion still.  And did Dimensional Fund Advisors have a recent expansion or is that from like 5 or 6 years ago?

[DMann]

Thanks KJH, great map

[KJHburg]

6 minutes ago, J-Rob said:

That map is interesting. Its from Q1 2023, but lists Centene as a relocation/expansion still.  And did Dimensional Fund Advisors have a recent expansion or is that from like 5 or 6 years ago?

I think it is just mentioning names of recent companies new to town.  Centene even counts as they hired some locals as you know despite pulling the plug on their big campus. 

[KJHburg]

This is why the Ameriprise lease of 2 full floors at 300 South Tryon not to mention the 400 jobs is important right now.

JLL is saying there is 185 floors of full floor vacant office space uptown.

https://www.qcnews.com/charlotte/hundreds-of-empty-floors-remain-in-uptown-charlotte-but-will-those-ever-be-filled-again/

some buildings that are much older think 1970s will have to be converted to new uses.