SouthEnd Midrise Projects

[captainjack]

59 minutes ago, michaelef said:

That rail trail counter sign has been like that for weeks now, you would think someone would of cleaned it up by now. .

I submitted a request about it via the CLT+ app a month ago. Received a call back from CDOT that they would be replacing the wall but not the counter. Disappointing because I loved seeing the digital counter and it encouraged car-less travel. Looks like a car ran into it but not sure. Nothing has been cleaned up or replaced. If anyone else wants to voice their concern, use the CLT+ app or call 704-336-3891. Maybe if we all voice concern, we can get a nice thing back.

[KJHburg]

38 minutes ago, captainjack said:

I submitted a request about it via the CLT+ app a month ago. Received a call back from CDOT that they would be replacing the wall but not the counter. Disappointing because I loved seeing the digital counter and it encouraged car-less travel. Looks like a car ran into it but not sure. Nothing has been cleaned up or replaced. If anyone else wants to voice their concern, use the CLT+ app or call 704-336-3891. Maybe if we all voice concern, we can get a nice thing back.

what they should do is make the driver's insurance company paid for a replacement.  Their insured hit it for whatever reason and they should be held responsible. 

[CTiger]

13 hours ago, KJHburg said:

what they should do is make the driver's insurance company paid for a replacement.  Their insured hit it for whatever reason and they should be held responsible. 

Seems like it should be easy to address, especially since it was hit by a street sweeper who was likely a city contractor.

[Guest]

29 minutes ago, Seabrooke said:

I think the flatiron building does a much better job with its 3 sides personally. Yes, one side is good, but I think this is much more of a fail than Atherton personally.

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Flatiron doesn't have a single parking space. You cannot compare the two, and don't say buildings don't need parking, because that's not correct.

[ertley]

16 hours ago, kermit said:

Shake Shack sign delivery

 

 

God I love Shake Shack so much--but mainly because it allows me to load up with as much condiments as I want.

[nakers2]

3 hours ago, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:

Flatiron doesn't have a single parking space. You cannot compare the two, and don't say buildings don't need parking, because that's not correct.

In New York they don’t, in Charlotte we need to be in a phase where we look at how much parking a building *really* needs. 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, nakers2 said:

In New York they don’t, in Charlotte we need to be in a phase where we look at how much parking a building *really* needs. 

I agree, but I'm saying on that particular parcel, any amount of parking would have to be visible in some manner, because of the code requirements of parking decks. Its not optimal, but the fact is, it would not have been financed, or leased by anyone without what the companies that leased, financed, and developed this building deemed was sufficient parking.

Edited February 26, 2020 by Guest

[pathb]

18 hours ago, KJHburg said:

what they should do is make the driver's insurance company paid for a replacement.  Their insured hit it for whatever reason and they should be held responsible. 

I wonder if there's some threshold that makes it worth the city's while to go after a driver.  If a motorist destroys a sign, those are pretty cheap and easy to fabricate and replace, maybe not worth the legal effort/expense.  For a bike counter, maybe?  A traffic signal cabinet that costs >$10,000?  I'd be curious to learn more if anyone on this forum has any insight.

 

In this case, a commercial vehicle with a (presumably) professional driver jumped a 4' curb to mow this thing down.  Police responded to the scene and can provide a crash report with all details.  This looks to me like complete negligence and it seems to me like a no-brainer that the driver's insurance company should have to pay out.  

[kermit]

Nice (if minor) addition to the rail trail at Tremont (parking lot for Sullivans and Lucianos). Hopefully the railings become something more permanent.

(includes a rare cameo by one of my dogs)

 

Edited February 26, 2020 by kermit

[michaelef]

21 hours ago, captainjack said:

I submitted a request about it via the CLT+ app a month ago. Received a call back from CDOT that they would be replacing the wall but not the counter. Disappointing because I loved seeing the digital counter and it encouraged car-less travel. Looks like a car ran into it but not sure. Nothing has been cleaned up or replaced. If anyone else wants to voice their concern, use the CLT+ app or call 704-336-3891. Maybe if we all voice concern, we can get a nice thing back.

Ugh I feel like we can't have anything nice near Charlotte roads, the number accidents I've seen happen where people go off the road. I get accidents happen, I just feel like it's so frequent in Charlotte. A few of those planters on the new plaza bike lanes have been hit already. 

Petition to add bollards everywhere...and bury power lines begins now! 

[Guest]

16 minutes ago, michaelef said:

Ugh I feel like we can't have anything nice near Charlotte roads, the number accidents I've seen happen where people go off the road. I get accidents happen, I just feel like it's so frequent in Charlotte. A few of those planters on the new plaza bike lanes have been hit already. 

Petition to add bollards everywhere...and bury power lines begins now! 

Now the question is... should I make them not replacing it go viral?

[kermit]

9 minutes ago, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:

Now the question is... should I make them not replacing it go viral?

meh, it never worked particularly well in the first place.

[Guest]

50 minutes ago, Seabrooke said:

I would have never compared the two. The person I was replying to did.

Yea I got it. Just wanted to remind people that we are probably 15-20 years from being able to get away with something like Flatiron.

[Urban Cowboy]

I passed by when the vehicle was still mounting the curb. It was a STREET CLEANER! No joke.

[KJHburg]

10 hours ago, Urban Cowboy said:

I passed by when the vehicle was still mounting the curb. It was a STREET CLEANER! No joke.

so you are saying our own city contractor plowed over a city owned and paid for sign?  

[kermit]

Rail trail on the Atherton side is almost ready (utilities were covered adjacent to the new retaining wall today at Tremont)

 

Edited February 28, 2020 by kermit

[KJHburg]

this is taking forever the new Krispy Kreme doughnut shop and Insomnia Cookies on Hawkins.  and bonus shot of the Hawk.  

 

[kermit]

The Marsh Apartments (behind the Sedgefield Teeter) they look OK in person. Photo from Poindexter.

 

Edited February 29, 2020 by kermit

[QCxpat]

Charlotte Beer Garden - Today @ 4:00 p.m.

 

[CLTProductions]

3 minutes ago, QCxpat said:

Charlotte Beer Garden - Today @ 4:00 p.m.

 

Just insane 

[KJHburg]

^^^I am guessing this is above and beyond the 500 people they can accommodate?     New and shiny attracts a crowd.....

[nicholas]

Forgot to post this from Saturday.  Can't remember which building this is, but construction has been humming along nicely.

[Blue_Devil]

1 hour ago, nicholas said:

Forgot to post this from Saturday.  Can't remember which building this is, but construction has been humming along nicely.

This is the one with the big open lot to the left of this picture right? Big enough for a second building?

[nicholas]

1 hour ago, Blue_Devil said:

This is the one with the big open lot to the left of this picture right? Big enough for a second building?

It is a pretty big lot, goes all the way to the gas station a bit out of the left of the pic.

[Urban Cowboy]

If you build it (and it has beer + "grammable" areas) they will come.