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[Dub_Ag]

dubone, on 29 March 2012 - 12:15 PM, said:

The original Southline was on both sides of the Lynx in this area. All the land between Dunavant and South straddling the Lynx.   The land you're talking about is all still owned by Cherokee Southline LLC, the place you have marked on your dev map as Southline is the site that JBL bought from Cherokee.

I believe the remaining Cherokee site at the NW corner of Remount and South Blvd is going to be apartments, believe it or not. Fortunately not garden-style apartments, but urban wrap apartments.

[kermit]

^ very interesting. Do you have any other information on the project? (or a link?)

[Dub_Ag]

None, just spec at this point from fairly credible sources.

I have also heard that Circle at SouthEnd just went on the market.

[kermit]

Fountains at New Bern is making good progress -- concreet pillars / foundation work is dramatic.

Site work appears to be complete at the Colonial site. There appeared to be no progress at the Silos site.

Tripple C brewing does not appear to be progressing (at least from the exterior).

[tozmervo]

A great article on TOD, featuring a blurb and site plan for Fountains.
http://online.wsj.co...4093629550.html

[atlrvr]

There is a rendering of Woodfield Silos on Housing Studio's website.  Also, there is a pic of Proffitt Dixon's planned Fountains development in Uptown and Stonewall and McDowell.

http://www.housingst...d8-e0712096673b

[ricky_davis_fan_21]

tozmervo, on 24 May 2012 - 09:07 AM, said:

A great article on TOD, featuring a blurb and site plan for Fountains.
http://online.wsj.co...4093629550.html

ARRRRGGGGG, hopefully after the DNC we will escape this retched N.C Tag before it kills me.

[nonillogical]

atlrvr, on 24 May 2012 - 09:42 AM, said:

There is a rendering of Woodfield Silos on Housing Studio's website.  Also, there is a pic of Proffitt Dixon's planned Fountains development in Uptown and Stonewall and McDowell.

http://www.housingst...d8-e0712096673b

Wow, they don't like street-frontage do they? It took some EFFORT to minimize it in the Fountains case, especially for uptown! Sigh.

I see what they're doing, trying to maximize the number of units with an uptown view, but it seems like the least urban solution they could come up with for that site. I was hoping for something that would activate the walk to Metropolitan or under the bridge to Dilworth more.

Edited by nonillogical, 24 May 2012 - 10:22 AM.

[atlrvr]

Woodfield's website has a page for this project that shows a site-plan.  The Silo's is more urban than this rendering suggests, but still no decked parking.  

That is also going to be the case with JLB's project up on Dunavant.  The developers bought the land so cheap, there was no need to do a parking deck.

To spin this in a more positive light, it allows them to rent the units for a lower amount because their costs are lower.  Rents should/could be lower than the existing South End projects.

While I was let down by the Fountains Uptown project, it was always going to be a really really tough parcel to develop.  I'm sure them buying to really cheap from the city helped accelerate its viability, but I alway thought it would be the very last parcel to be developed in Uptown.

[dubone]

(I pulled the 2nd Ward topic back from pergatory, so we can discuss the Fountains at Stonewall here ) .

I biked down toward the Silos last week and was reminded just how large the land parcel is there.   That rendering is somewhat generic outside the really great fact that those silos are remaining as a quirky icon.    I can still remember the asphalt (concrete?) plant there on the site a while back as well as the Bonded Transportation trucking site across the tracks from when I moved to Charlotte 13y ago and moved to Sedgefield.   It is a really positive thing for the city to be getting so many semi-dense apartments around the rail station.  Also, I notice with the light industrial buildings south of the Silos site getting retail, it could really grow organically as it's own neighborhood destination in the next 5y.

[kermit]

framing is well underway at the Southline / JBL site. Site work is progressing at Colonial and the Silos site.

A Survey crew was marking boundaries on the parcel across South blvd from the Lowes / Iverson Way T intersection today.

Edited by kermit, 25 May 2012 - 09:46 AM.

[atlrvr]

Centro Studio at South End (West and Camden) has had it's Camden frontage improved greatly.

Old:
http://axiomarchitec...reekaerial1.jpg

New:
http://axiomarchitec...thend-hero2.png

This version is what David Furman showed in the South End planning workshop in April (meeting was for general neighborhood planning, not specific to this project).

[nonillogical]

^ Fantastic news! The new rendering looks great. I don't think I'd change a thing. Even the corrugated metal, which I'm getting kind of sick of, is at least a sparingly-used accent here.

[ricky_davis_fan_21]

atlrvr, on 25 May 2012 - 11:43 AM, said:

Centro Studio at South End (West and Camden) has had it's Camden frontage improved greatly.

Old:
http://axiomarchitec...reekaerial1.jpg

New:
http://axiomarchitec...thend-hero2.png

This version is what David Furman showed in the South End planning workshop in April (meeting was for general neighborhood planning, not specific to this project).

WOWWWWWWW!!! With Retail!!!! Thank god he improved upon it!

[dubone]

That is a dramatic improvement.  No surprise he labeled the rendering "hero"  haha.

I find it more interesting stylistically, too.  And planting strip is replaced by a wide urban sidewalk with retail and al fresco dining.  Finally something fitting with the goals of these neighborhood centers!

[kermit]

I hearby declair that the Griffith st / New Bern area to be the next hip neighborhood in Charlotte. The combination of the three apartment complexes and one condo complex along with the old industrial space that is appropriately sized for retail and entertainment could really combine magically over the next couple years. Based on the activity that Old Mecklenburg brewery generates in their beer 'garden' [parking lot] Tripple C brewing (right in the middle of this hood) could really be the cataylst.

The lack of parking in the area might even be beneficial given the proximity to New Bern station.