SouthEnd "Gold District"

[KJHburg]

aerial views of the rising Gold District where the streets are paved with gold dust.

Middle photo shows the block where a 7 or 8 story apartment building with rise where those 1-2 stories buildings are. 

 

[RANYC]

2 hours ago, KJHburg said:

aerial views of the rising Gold District where the streets are paved with gold dust.

Middle photo shows the block where a 7 or 8 story apartment building with rise where those 1-2 stories buildings are. 

 

Starting to look quite a bit dense there with no sort of public square or pocket park.  Is there anything of the sort in the Gold District?  

[KJHburg]

Took a self guided tour of the Gold district this afternoon and the tour was so good I tipped the tourguide. 

1. New Spectrum apartment development   2. Catholic bus lot this is sitting on a literally gold mine (and could be gold underneath too)  3/4.. New Grubb apartment complex  on S Mint

5./6/7  new Spectrum apartment complex    8/9/10 Altura townhomes all sold out nice!    11. crane of Spectrum apartment complex    12. The Bank  home of the first PSL for pro soccer

13/14/15/16  Altura townhomes   17 Spectrum crane   18. I spy a Lowes tower   19 back of Altura townhomes 20. Lendingtree HQ

last 3 photos aerial views of the rapidly changing Gold district 

 

[utcltjay]

They are definitely working overtime now on the Spectrum and Grubb apartments. Parking deck is up to second floor and moving onto third for Spectrum, and Grubb is making fast gains with the first level being poured. 

[KJHburg]

2 apartment complexes in Gold District from streetside and above.  Today. 

[KJHburg]

drive by the 2 new apartment complexes in the Gold District.  First the Spectrum complex and then the Grubb project.  Lots of new residents coming soon to this area. 

[KJHburg]

Apartments rising in the Gold District and a few other miscellaneous buildings.  Hundreds of apartments coming with Grubb's property and Spectrum and the other one on S Mint .  Notice the stairwell tower up for Grubb project showing the approx. height. 

[KJHburg]

the Gold District or it is GoDo or SoUP (south of Uptown)

all I know it is fast changing with 2 apartments complexes rising and developers circling like buzzards for more opportunities.  I still think some signage and location of the historical gold mines need to be place in this rapidly changing area. 

 

 

[Richhamleigh, DC]

How about S'UP?

[atlrvr]

Goldie or GolD

 

 

[KJHburg]

I realized after I re-read GoDo makes no sense LOL GoDi pronounced Gold-ee as mentioned above makes better sense. 

and the piece of art that should be commissioned is a large gold nugget on base.    Anyway this area is rapidly going to change and look for more development and even high rises in this area.   

[atlrvr]

[tozmervo]

This neighborhood brought to you by Trane^TM

[RANYC]

I drive or walk through the Gold District and while it's definitely densifying, I'd like to ask the group what they like about it.  I have people visit me from out of town, and I've been telling them about all the growth here and how that's fueling a sense of vitality, but once they're here, it's tricky to create an opportunity for them to really "access" whatever energy I've been alluding to.  Now I see why places like Savannah were designed with a "public square" in each district.  

[KJHburg]

Wait until hundreds of new residents from both these 2 new apartment complexes start milling around this area.  a bona fide "entertainment district" has almost developed along W  Bland.  And it is organic and real and not forced.   Gold District rising and of course the little buildings along W Morehead that will be turned into some much taller by the Austin developer. 

[videtur quam contuor]

For decades Bland was the most aptly named street in Charlotte. Glad to see it has changed.

[KJHburg]

This sounds like a routine announcement major developer buys an office building in the Gold District.  But Stream Realty Partners out of Dallas I am sure has bigger plans.  I would see a possible mid rise office building on the Woodies site and behind the existing Flores buildings.  (there is room to build something in a podium style parking office building) 

""Stream Realty Partners acquired two buildings at 1218 S. Church St., and is under contract on an adjacent parcel containing Woodie's Auto Service and Repair Center, at 321 W. Palmer St. Stream paid $16 million for the Church Street buildings.  Both Church Street buildings, totaling 43,200 square feet, are fully occupied by consultant Flores & Associates. Those include a three-story, 36,000-square-foot office building and a 7,200-square-foot building with a basketball court, CrossFit gym and entertaining space.  The Woodie's deal is expected to close at the end of the month. Both sites total 1.8 acres and represent about half of the block bounded by Palmer, Mint, Quincey and Church streets.""

Stream Realty Partners buys office building, Woodie's Auto Service site in South End - Charlotte Business Journal (bizjournals.com)

[KJHburg]

the Gold district is about to get a lot more populated.  2 apartment complexes rising one by Grubb and one by Spectrum.  3rd one will start on Bland and S Church where 1-2 story office complex is now.  This tropical morning. 

[atlrvr]

I'm really liking the new one-way with parking on both side on Lincoln St and think this should be recreated all over town.

 

[Blue_Devil]

33 minutes ago, atlrvr said:

I'm really liking the new one-way with parking on both side on Lincoln St and think this should be recreated all over town.

 

I love that too. I would love to see South, through SouthEnd, turned into a 2 lane with parking on either side an tree'd median, kind of like this. 

[RANYC]

46 minutes ago, Blue_Devil said:

I love that too. I would love to see South, through SouthEnd, turned into a 2 lane with parking on either side an tree'd median, kind of like this. 

1000% - how do we start the advocacy for this sort of transformation

Edited June 11, 2021 by RANYC

[JHart]

Charlotte is doing a pretty good job of road diets on the north side but through residential neighborhoods (Plaza, Parkwood, Matheson next), but I would think South Blvd would still be prioritized due to pedestrian deaths there even though it handles a ton of commuter traffic:

https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=a76fc08608754c23969be0c902dcc74f&extent=-80.9822,35.144,-80.6927,35.3119 

[DownEast]

6 hours ago, atlrvr said:

I'm really liking the new one-way with parking on both side on Lincoln St and think this should be recreated all over town.

 

Wow. That looks awesome.

[kermit]

^ Lets give credit where its due. Street trees, patio activation and an interesting (and used) alley on the block (with art!)  all contribute.

(Its mostly fine since its such a quiet street but the parking on both sides of such a narrow street does double the potential of getting doored while biking)

Edited June 11, 2021 by kermit

[tozmervo]

It looks good. I think 1-way streets should still be a "last resort" to street diet like this, but used properly can be very effective.