Charlotte area "ring cities"

[QCxpat]

Today's CBJ, "Concord makes Fortune ranking of 50 Best Places to live for Families"  by Jenna Martin 

Excerpt:  "One city from North Carolina is highlighted on Fortune's new list of the "50 Best Places to Live for Families" — and it's in the Charlotte metro area.  The ... fast-growing city of Concord ranks in the top half of the list, landing at No. 20.  Concord — about 25 miles northeast of Charlotte — had a population of nearly 110,000 residents as of July 2022,  up about 1.7% over the year, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau figures."  "Concord feels like a reprieve from the new construction and swelling population of its metropolitan neighbor Charlotte, while still offering lots to keep you busy," Fortune says in its write-up.  Fortune's ranking focuses on the top U.S. places where multigenerational families, many of whom are both raising their children and caring for aging parents, are most likely to have access to critical resources, community support and financial well-being."

Link:  https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2023/06/15/fortune-list-best-places-to-live-families-concord.html

Edited June 15, 2023 by QCxpat

[rancenc]

New residential development coming to Stanly County.

https://www.thesnaponline.com/2023/06/14/stanly-planning-board-approves-ridgecrest-subdivision/

[rancenc]

Shopping center site being repurposed in Albemarle!

https://www.thesnaponline.com/2023/06/21/old-albemarle-mall-site-to-house-retail-storage-goodwill-industries-confirmed-for-site/

[rancenc]

New mixed use development approved for the Huntersville area!
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nascar-auto-racing/thatsracin/article276564026.html

[KJHburg]

downtown Kannapolis and for a game at Atrium Health Ballpark and the Cannonballers.  7 story mixed use building by the outfield topped off 5 levels of apartments 2 floors of retail and office.  There will be a restaurant there called the Towel City Tavern.   All the retail space seems leased in the Vida apartment buildings to a wine shop, a restaurant with golf simulators, and a nail spa.  The Social district seems to be really boosting sales and visitations as I saw a pop up bar that was selling drinks in the lobby of the Suwanee theater on the weekends only and another restaurant had  a drinks window where you can order any kind of drink.  This rebuilt reimagined downtown achieving all its goals and just getting better.  Another apartment building underway across from the Amtrak station with 92 units.   Downtown Kannapolis is booming and beaming with people now check it out if you have not lately. 

[Madison Parkitect]

On 6/25/2023 at 8:06 AM, KJHburg said:

downtown Kannapolis and for a game at Atrium Health Ballpark and the Cannonballers.  7 story mixed use building by the outfield topped off 5 levels of apartments 2 floors of retail and office.  There will be a restaurant there called the Towel City Tavern.   All the retail space seems leased in the Vida apartment buildings to a wine shop, a restaurant with golf simulators, and a nail spa.  The Social district seems to be really boosting sales and visitations as I saw a pop up bar that was selling drinks in the lobby of the Suwanee theater on the weekends only and another restaurant had  a drinks window where you can order any kind of drink.  This rebuilt reimagined downtown achieving all its goals and just getting better.  Another apartment building underway across from the Amtrak station with 92 units.   Downtown Kannapolis is booming and beaming with people now check it out if you have not lately. 

 

I love that they leave the stadium open during the day for people to just hang out in, and that's a really great playground there too. Wish the downtown area had better restaurants, I feel like it's really only missing that part.

[KJHburg]

10 hours ago, Madison Parkitect said:

I love that they leave the stadium open during the day for people to just hang out in, and that's a really great playground there too. Wish the downtown area had better restaurants, I feel like it's really only missing that part.

2 new restaurants are coming to downtown one the towel city tavern and another called the Kannapolis city club

 

[rancenc]

The proposed "Lagoon" project for Huntersville looks to be set for a revision by the developer.....stay tune!!

https://www.wccbcharlotte.com/2023/07/04/developer-announces-changes-to-proposed-crystal-lagoon-in-huntersville/

[KJHburg]

3 hours ago, rancenc said:

The proposed "Lagoon" project for Huntersville looks to be set for a revision by the developer.....stay tune!!

https://www.wccbcharlotte.com/2023/07/04/developer-announces-changes-to-proposed-crystal-lagoon-in-huntersville/

He has halved the project and eliminated the hotel and convention center which I always thought was a weird option for this type of community of high end homes. 

[rancenc]

New residential development could be in the works for Cleveland County.

https://www.shelbystar.com/story/news/2023/07/24/here-are-the-four-preliminary-plats-approved-by-the-board/70443319007/

[kayman]

On 7/5/2023 at 5:14 PM, KJHburg said:

He has halved the project and eliminated the hotel and convention center which I always thought was a weird option for this type of community of high end homes. 

Huntersville and the Lake Norman submarket needs more hotel and conference center options at this point. It's borderline ignorant af to be so anti-development. The Dodo birds called the Huntersville Town Council are always whining about wanting more business & economic development to stay within Huntersville town limits. In their very own  words, I've heard several times from them but especially from Melinda Bales. 

At this point Huntersville is like a ghost town east of Statesville Road/SR 115 when it comes to development density & a disaster waiting to happen west of I-77. Huntersville is lopsided to the west at that. This initial development concept would have given the additional mixed used development opportunities for the development patterns beyond residential exclusively to shift more eastward within Huntersville town limits.

I deal with a good bit of regional  forecasting & modeling through the Metrolina Regional Travel Demand Model often.  Their constant kowtowing to delusional NIMBYs in Huntersville is going to bite a chunk of their a**es soon.  

Edited July 25, 2023 by kayman

[rancenc]

Profile on one of the outer ring cities in the area!

https://www.ourstate.com/hickory-reimagined/

[KJHburg]

30 minutes ago, rancenc said:

Profile on one of the outer ring cities in the area!

https://www.ourstate.com/hickory-reimagined/

Part of the consolidated Charlotte metro statistical area now.  

[KJHburg]

This is more of a Ring Town story and how one restaurant changed the downtown.  While at 73 and Main tonight I noticed an old brick gas station across the street and thought it would be perfect for pizza restaurant or something.  The owners of 73 and Main own the Cafe Lentz across the street which serves lunch only and several occupied storefronts.  73 and Main itself is in an old hosiery mill.  These 2 restaurants and new shops around them have revitalized this small town downtown.  Talking to the dining room manager they plan to open a pizza restaurant and tap house in the old gas station.  They will own and operate restaurants on 3 of the 4 corners in this small town downtown.  The food is farm to table and ranch to table.   And it is excellent.  This town of 2500 or so has people driving from Charlotte, Concord, Harrisburg, Albemarle everywhere within a 20 mile radius to come eat here.    Check it out for your selves and take the drive to the small town in NE Cabarrus County.  Take Tryon Street out from Charlotte and keep going until you get to Mt Pleasant. 

https://www.73andmain.com/  worth the drive up from the QC and they have a pub menu, a bourbon bar, full steakhouse etc.  

 

[carolinaboy]

13 hours ago, KJHburg said:

This is more of a Ring Town story and how one restaurant changed the downtown.  While at 73 and Main tonight I noticed an old brick gas station across the street and thought it would be perfect for pizza restaurant or something.  The owners of 73 and Main own the Cafe Lentz across the street which serves lunch only and several occupied storefronts.  73 and Main itself is in an old hosiery mill.  These 2 restaurants and new shops around them have revitalized this small town downtown.  Talking to the dining room manager they plan to open a pizza restaurant and tap house in the old gas station.  They will own and operate restaurants on 3 of the 4 corners in this small town downtown.  The food is farm to table and ranch to table.   And it is excellent.  This town of 2500 or so has people driving from Charlotte, Concord, Harrisburg, Albemarle everywhere within a 20 mile radius to come eat here.    Check it out for your selves and take the drive to the small town in NE Cabarrus County.  Take Tryon Street out from Charlotte and keep going until you get to Mt Pleasant. 

https://www.73andmain.com/  worth the drive up from the QC and they have a pub menu, a bourbon bar, full steakhouse etc.  

 

THere is a vacant building in my town that looks virtually exactly like the one in the first picture. I have always thought I would love to buy it and open a bar in it. In a weird twist it was only a couple of years ago I found out the building used to be a hardware store operated by my family on my dad's side many years ago. Almost poetic if I were to buy it one day.

[KJHburg]

Downtown Concord with the 1960s courthouse being renovated now as the brand new one is now open.  Streetscape work down Union St.  Renovation at PM Morris Bldg. with ground floor retail and apartments above.  1 of the 3 new apartment buildings by Lansing Melbourne is now opened one finishing up and one still in framing.

https://www.lmgroup.us/currentprojects

in another note downtown Concord has attracted a new  operations center for Zipline the Silicon Valley drone company.  At a meeting last week of the Cabarrus EDC they talked about how their pilots and training base for their entire North American operations would be in downtown Concord.  The local Zipline manager cited "affordability" as one of the reasons they chose Concord especially since they are based in high cost South San Francisco (my words) They opened in 2020 in Kannapolis with drone deliveries in this area and now they have this new facility in downtown Concord.  

[rancenc]

Jobs and investment coming to Stanly County.

https://businessnc.com/clayton-supply-bringing-263-jobs-with-46-million-project-in-stanly-county/

[KJHburg]

Concord ranked as the 10th best city to live in here in the southeast.  (and the only city in this area)  Cary is ranked #2.

https://livability.com/topics/where-to-live-now/top-25-best-places-to-live-in-the-southeast/

[Bikeguy]

Big doings in downtown Albemarle..  

The reopening of The Courthouse Restaurant ( formerly Off the Square) .   A real step above what I thought was one of the best dining experiences in the area.   I had a perfectly cooked and very tasty lemon salmon with mashed potatoes; my wife had the mahi tacos with blue cheese slaw.        She won

Also opening is the newly relocated and beautifully styled Sweet Shop.   

An Albemarle institution for 60+ years.  

 

[KJHburg]

New projects continue to rise in Kannapolis.  New Stadium Lofts with ground floor restaurant and team store and offices and apartments above.  New apartments going up across from the Amtrak station.  New retail filling in to some of the new retail spaces.  Truly a city on the rise.  (and yes with the first social district in the state)

 

[KJHburg]

I haven't been out to Oakboro in southern Stanly county in a while to my favorite Mexican place in town.   Things I noticed beyond the Charlotte Pipe and Foundry plant being almost completed.  My cell phone used to not work well there but now T Mobile must have a new tower in heart of Oakboro to cover the new plant and the whole town now.   Every storefront in downtown Oakboro is occupied there were more vacancies a year ago.  My little Mexican place was packed again this was not the case last year.   Lots of new homes have been built around the town and in the countryside nearby.  This new relocated plant has really lifted this area.  

Photos downtown Oakboro and the new CP&F plant on Lighthouse Rd.  However I think this road and this view will be only for employees as their property surround the road on both sides and there seems to be new security gates being built on each end of the road.    The do have a rail spur right into the plant too and a new Duke substation right nearby.  

 

[rancenc]

New development could be in the works for Kings Mountain.

https://www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/north-carolina/cleveland-county/massive-mixed-us-development-could-come-to-growing-part-of-kings-mountain/

[rancenc]

Second phase of Huntersville's NorthCross Commerce Center's expansion will start soon.

https://www.commercialsearch.com/news/mdh-partners-lands-23m-loan-for-charlotte-industrial-development/

[DCMetroRaleigh]

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– Halstatt Real Estate Partners, a real estate private equity firm, today announced its commitment to develop a two-building industrial facility located on the I-85 corridor between Charlotte and the Triad

 

[SpiritOf76]

Any plans for apartments in downtown Monroe?