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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Mecklenburg_County,_North_Carolina Here are the remaining National Historic Registered buildings in Mecklenburg.   (

Urban Cowboy
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DANIEL LEVINE introduces the following uptown venues. Part of the Levine "FWF" Collection. First Ward Field Bring your own tent (no, seriously). Just not that kind of tent. Sweepin

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Last time I will say this but this destruction of the old Barringer Hotel is a travesty.  NO OTHER NC city would be doing this today and all would have worked with the hotel and private developers to

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As advertised, the former Dixie's Parking Lot is completely closed today. In possibly related news, the vacant block bounded by 8th, 9th, Caldwell and Brevard appears to be being cleared this morning as crews are removing the grass and some of the trees and fencing on this lot. I assume that this block would need to be raised/graded to coincide with any raising of Caldwell noted above.

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As advertised, the former Dixie's Parking Lot is completely closed today. In possibly related news, the vacant block bounded by 8th, 9th, Caldwell and Brevard appears to be being cleared this morning as crews are removing the grass and some of the trees and fencing on this lot. I assume that this block would need to be raised/graded to coincide with any raising of Caldwell noted above.

Holy crap guys, I think this is actually happening. I'm scared.

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It will be so fantastically predictable if in 2040, we would be riding in our self-driving Tesla past the One Direction Reunion Tour and the Bank of North America US headquarters, yelling at the kids grinding up the granite retaining walls with their hover-boards at Anthony Foxx Memorial First Ward Park to park at the gravel parking lot across from Historic 7th Street Station.   But we'll have to first stop and wave our iPhone 19S at the BoNA ATM to get paper money to roll up and stuff into the payment boxes at the gravel lot.  

 

Old Man Levine just sits in a rocker at Shalom Park Nursing Center saying construction will start next year and a Just Fresh will be opening at the Treloar Building next month (no one has told him it fell down decades ago from disrepair).  The nurse says "Yes, Mr Levine, you told me all about that yesterday.  Here is your kosher pudding and today's pills.  There you go.  Oh let me get that drool cleaned up for you."   "It will be the pinnacle development in uptown Charlotte.  A general contractor has been selected and is drawing up..."  "Yes, Mr Levine.  Take another sip.  Don't choke now. Theeere you go."   "Did I tell you about the Just Fresh?  It's opening next month."

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They are putting up a big white tent at the Dixie's Parking Lot - presumably for tomorrow's ground breaking?

I am still in shock this is actually happening, and will probably refuse to believe it until it's done. 

 

But to summarize, what exactly is being done? Is it just the park and what is the extent of it (is it still just going to be between 7th, 8th or out to 9th, Brevard and the Light Rail Line)? Also, what kind of time line are we looking at?

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There appear to be a couple projects going on in this area currently. First, there is work being done along the BLE between 7th and 277 - mostly clearing out the 9th street light rail stop, and removing concrete along the route. Assume this is needed to install two tracks, and to create the grade crossing at 9th and 10th (even though the street doesn't exist yet). Also, there continues to be a lot of utility work on 8th and Brevard. There is fencing around some or all of three entire blocks bounded by 7th, 8th, and along Caldwell and Brevard, and crews are clearing out trees and fencing from the block next to UNCC.

As stated previously, most of not all of this being done by people other than Levine, but I guess it has to start somewhere.

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The deadlines the city put in place for Levine to get his tax breaks-- it's not just for breaking ground, right? I'm all of a sudden worried they just said he had to break ground and that's all he's going to do.

Haters gonna hate... DL has done nothing but good, since putting up fencing, why start doubting now.  :whistling:

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