Neartown Photo Tour - Elizabeth

[dubone]

There isn't a whole lot to say, but here is a sampling of the residential section of elizabeth south of independence.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=charlotte,+n...07596&t=k&hl=en

Here is the new development at independence and hawthorne

The Skyline from hawthorne bridge

The townhouses on the north side of independence.

Walking down bay st

And the bigger homes around clement

The little roundabout at 8th and lamar

[dubone]

And further down 8th

A house on 7th converted to a restaurant

7th

Independence Park

Memorial Stadium's view

The underpass between independence park and memorial stadium

The attractive side of memorial stadium that everyone driving by on 7th sees.

The onramp connector from 5th to independence... according to cdot, 5th will eventually cross sugar creek and connect to 5th on the other side eventually

[ironchapman]

Noce shots!

Are all of Charlotte's neighborhoods like this?

I liked the one of the skyline form Hawthorne Bridge.

[atlrvr]

Elizabeth was an upper-middle class neigbhorhood when it was built around the turn of the century.......most of Charlotte's pre-WWII look similar, though not are all in a beautiful present day condition.

[DigitalSky]

Charlotte's neighborhoods have true character, and some of us would never see these if it weren't for photos like your Dubone... thanks

[urbanvb]

Love those bungalows below those lush mature trees.. and the canopies are way cool too.

[dubone]

i'm glad you liked the photos. I enjoyed the walk.

To see how awesome this neighborhood is on both sides of independence, it really brings home how ashame it is that independence grew so much it swallowed so much of the neighborhood.

I meant to take a photo of it, but just across hawthorne from these condos, is the party time site that some here have said a highrise might go. You can see the killer view they'd get. Not to mention, the streetcar that will run by their place on hawthorne, and being in walking distance between both central ave and elizabeth ave biz districts.

[atlrvr]

No more high-rise for that site ......about 8 stories is as tall as it will go.....plus their will be some townhomes, and some commercial components.

[dubone]

oh, ok.

even at 8 stories, it will be quite a project/location.

[715nchurch]

where is a map of the proposed streetcar routes?

[nyxmike]

No more high-rise for that site  ......about 8 stories is as tall as it will go.....plus their will be some townhomes, and some commercial components.

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Which project are you talking about?

Wow, thats a nice neighborhood... I never really got to see it until now. Thanks for the pics.

[atlrvr]

Party Reflections was sold to the developer of Elizabeth Village.....there was originally talk of a 17 story tower on the site......but it's been scaled back some now.

[dubone]

where is a map of the proposed streetcar routes?

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the streetcar route is pretty simple:

to the east:

trade

elizaberh

hawthorne

central

(ends at cental/albemarle at eastland)

to the west:

trade

beatties ford

(ends at beatties ford/85)

[peaceloveunderstanding]

a great neighborhood, we have so many great neighborhoods I don't usually see. Thanks Dubone.

[UptownJ]

thanks for the tour... this is one of my favorate areas!

[dubone]

i'm glad you guys enjoyed the tour.

[HighRiseHillbilly]

You take great pictures. Thank you for going through all of that trouble for us!

[Dylan]

Awesome pictures. It's really pretty there.

[utcltjay]

this is too funny, but the picture you have here is one of my good freinds walking his dog!

[dubone]

That is funny. Imagine how many random people's photographs we all have ended up in at one point or another.

[peaceloveunderstanding]

hahaha. What is the name of that development? I really like how it looks.

[atlrvr]

Elizabeth Village....it's on Hawthorne, and can be seen poking up from behind the sound wall along Independence.

[GoFightWin]

I almost bought this house on Hawthorne two years ago (two doors down from Snoops Grill)! Unfortunately when the home inspector came he found rotten band sills around the bottom the house among other major things stucturely. We were quoted around $20,000 to get it structurely sound...too bad cause we really liked the Elizabeth area. Oh well. It would have been a good flipper house for a contractor or big-time handy man. We were looking for a structurely sound fixer upper to live in for a while.

[orulz]

Wow, Elizabeth Village looks neat!

The architecture is clearly American, but that picture gives it a distinctively foreign flavor. Except for the architecture, it's very similar to what your typical Japanese neighborhood looks like, and I imagine there's a lot of places like that in Europe too.

[DigitalSky]

Ok I love this phototour so much I'm gonna bump it