Optimist Park / Belmont Projects

[Desert Power]

1 hour ago, Vitamin_N said:

Some more background on Amelie's:

Court documents show that the lease of the popular French bakery was to have expired in March and that landlords disagreed about negotiating an extension. 

...Relationships among the owners fractured over a dispute involving distribution of the money from the 2016 sale of condos in Plaza-Midwood, court documents say.

Full article here.

Interesting that Amelie's main beef is the parking.  Not exactly going to find a lot of places near the light rail with that much surface lot anymore.

The lot being used for a lot of their parking is too valuable, particularly if it is combined with a teardown of their current building.

[CLTNative]

Not Amelie’s, but Buck of Buck’s Heating and Oil + Kelly Tire passed at 90 in late January. That’s a good bit of land and his kids, in their 50s and 60s will likely sell soon. He and my grandmother got married 16 years ago after they both lost their spouses to cancer.

Edit: across the street from Neese’s  Sausage on Davidson.

Edited June 3, 2019 by CLTNative

[Guest]

1 minute ago, CLTNative said:

Not Amelie’s, but Buck of Buck’s Heating and Oil + Kelly Tire passed at 90 in late January. That’s a good bit of land and his kids, in their 50s and 60s will likely sell soon. He and my grandmother got married 16 years ago after they both lost their spouses to cancer.

Sorry for your loss. 

[CLTNative]

Thanks! He lived a long life. He went quickly.

[KJHburg]

a few drive bys of the Siegle Point townhomes and this is seems to be a nexus for overhead power lines.  Check out the photos from yesterday.  Townhomes looking good.  Couple more photos from the area and mill renovation on Louise. 

 

[KJHburg]

^^^ My third photo above with all the power lines looks like a Third World country LOL.

#CharlottesWeb

[KJHburg]

drive bys today. 

1. new apartments at Parkwood and N Brevard

2. new Ryan townhomes across from Optmist Mill

3. new apartments across from the new Alexan apartments on Parkwood. 

[KJHburg]

Optmist Mill from above and new Ryan townhomes all near the Parkwood station.  Today. 

[KJHburg]

new Alexan apartments along Parkwood near Optimist Hall and the new apartments across the street.

 

[kermit]

The view from the BLE suggests Optimist Hall is getting close. The exterior appears complete, they are starting on landscaping. I am guessing interior upfits are the last obstacle... 

[Guest]

28 minutes ago, kermit said:

The view from the BLE suggests Optimist Hall is getting close. The exterior appears complete, they are starting on landscaping. I am guessing interior upfits are the last obstacle... 

Signage is up on several tenants inside, and upfits are buttoning up. 

Edited June 19, 2019 by Guest

[CLT-704]

As I was running by the old Joe's Doughs and Abari building yesterday morning I noticed a sign on the Joe's Doughs door that said something about 'Skate'.  Then I looked in the parking lot and saw a half pipe being built.  I checked the WebPermit site, nothing new as of yet.  I'm wondering if this is where the Skate shop that closed in Plaza could be moving to. 

[fortibus]

Drove by Optimist Hall and saw around back that they were painting the brick a tan/sand color...

Is that the way everything is going to look? The early renderings showed the building as a whitish color. And the latest renderings on their website show unpainted brick.

Not sure what this stucco color is. I don't like it.

[kermit]

50 minutes ago, fortibus said:

Drove by Optimist Hall and saw around back that they were painting the brick a tan/sand color...

Is that the way everything is going to look? The early renderings showed the building as a whitish color. And the latest renderings on their website show unpainted brick.

Not sure what this stucco color is. I don't like it.

 

I believe the stucco is were they had to replace old brick. Much of this repair work was done with cinder block (which surprised me) and they hide it using stucco.

[Guest]

50 minutes ago, kermit said:

I believe the stucco is were they had to replace old brick. Much of this repair work was done with cinder block (which surprised me) and they hide it using stucco.

I actually like how piecemeal it looks, makes it seem that much more historic. 

Krog ain't perfect either, and its so nice.

Edited June 19, 2019 by Guest

[Bruco72]

21 hours ago, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:

I actually like how piecemeal it looks, makes it seem that much more historic. 

 

Agreed, I think the old and piecemeal fixes combined with modern up-fit in a few places looks fantastic.

Can't imagine they are going with the white any more. If so, white framed windows was a really, really bad idea.

[archiham04]

On 6/19/2019 at 9:37 AM, CLT-704 said:

As I was running by the old Joe's Doughs and Abari building yesterday morning I noticed a sign on the Joe's Doughs door that said something about 'Skate'.  Then I looked in the parking lot and saw a half pipe being built.  I checked the WebPermit site, nothing new as of yet.  I'm wondering if this is where the Skate shop that closed in Plaza could be moving to. 

I think that skate shop moved to Eastway Crossing Shopping Center.

On 6/20/2019 at 10:40 AM, Bruco72 said:

Agreed, I think the old and piecemeal fixes combined with modern up-fit in a few places looks fantastic.

Can't imagine they are going with the white any more. If so, white framed windows was a really, really bad idea.

I think that the Historic credits probably required them to keep the historic brick brick colored and required that any major repairs not try to mimic, but be clear modern repairs.

[KJHburg]

some drive bys through the Belmont Villa Heights Optmist Park area today.   Last 2 photos are of the affordable housing project a church partnered with a developer on and they look great!  

first photo is what I call Charlotte's Web. 

[King of the Queen City]

6 hours ago, KJHburg said:

first photo is what I call Charlotte's Web. 

Edited June 27, 2019 by King of the Queen City

[XRZ.ME]

Is there any info on if 25th st will build a bridge on little sugar creek?



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[Desert Power]

1 hour ago, XRZ.ME said:

Is there any info on if 25th st will build a bridge on little sugar creek?



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They will, but they are at least a year behind the initial schedule I saw.

[jednc]

Does anyone have any idea when Optimist Hall is opening? Visited something similar in Tampa and I'm looking forward to giving this a try.

[KJHburg]

Apartments at Parkwood and N Brevard.    Apartments across from the new Alexan Apartments near Birdsong and N Brevard Parkwood. 

[markeckert]

On 7/1/2019 at 4:12 PM, jednc said:

Does anyone have any idea when Optimist Hall is opening? Visited something similar in Tampa and I'm looking forward to giving this a try.

Hey. It was supposed to open in June. They were a week away from soft opening, all staff was hired / trained - and then the developer (at random) decided he wanted to wait a month to open mid July so they could wait for a few more shops to be built out. I heard this directly from the owner of Undercurrent Coffee who will have a shop there. It SHOULD be open later this month. 

[Desert Power]

1 hour ago, markeckert said:

Hey. It was supposed to open in June. They were a week away from soft opening, all staff was hired / trained - and then the developer (at random) decided he wanted to wait a month to open mid July so they could wait for a few more shops to be built out. I heard this directly from the owner of Undercurrent Coffee who will have a shop there. It SHOULD be open later this month. 

What a mess