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[monsoon]

^What would help that immensely would also be regional control, that means local control over all road building.  No more NCDOT involvement.   They share a blame in this because they operate in a vast vacuum where roads are prioritized and built often without any considerations for any regional planning that might exist.  The only recourse that Charlotte and the towns have to change things, such as getting I-77 widened, would be to allow a project such as this because it will help pay for that to happen.

[Andyc545]

This week, Cornelius Bromont, LLC finished purchasing the 104 acres of  land for this project.

Also, with the 80 million dollars in the road improvements, they will be constructing a bridge over 77 that will reallign Bailey Road.

[DigitalSky]

This project has been renamed 'Augustalee'

[ricky_davis_fan_21]

DigitalSky, on Nov 22 2008, 07:38 PM, said:

This project has been renamed 'Augustalee'

Very interesting name, I don't know if I prefer it better than Village at Lake Norman however. Then again the whole "Village of..." is very ubiquitous.
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[jednc]

nibletodell, on Nov 24 2008, 11:45 AM, said:

Very interesting name, I don't know if I prefer it better than Village at Lake Norman however. Then again the whole "Village of..." is very ubiquitous.
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Agreed. And, it's named for Augusta Lee Cooke, the grandmother of the land-owning family...so I like to tie in to the history of the property. It sounds very southern.

[DigitalSky]

If you look through some of the flash renderings, you can see the Best Buy and Target logos too.

[jednc]

It looks like this project might be in trouble. According to The Observer the developer has defaulted on some of the  loan conditions; specifically that they sign agreements to lease a significant amount of office space in the new development. The lender says it's working with all parties to see if the development can move forward, but obviously their first priority is to protect their investment. The story can be found here.

[DigitalSky]

So this is apparently one of the sites that Costco might go...

[StevenRocks]

With Saks?  That'd be weird.