Providence Road Development

[cjd5050]

13 hours ago, KJHburg said:

LIncoln Harris is proposing to add a video screen wall for outdoor movies along their central green area at Rea Farms Village.  This is interesting. See the presentation here.  http://ww.charmeck.org/Planning/Rezoning/2017/095-110/2017-095 community report.pdf

I think they want to so the same thing at  Promenade on Providence.  I am a fan of the idea.  Love public spaces being used like this.

[KJHburg]

^^^Oh I think it would be great for movies for the kiddies in the summer and year round.  Great maybe for teenagers too.  

[KJHburg]

Couple from Lincoln Harris's Rea Farms Village. Apartments over retail and huge Lifestyle fitness center.  100s of construction workers here and across the street at Waverly and Providence Farms by Crescent. 

couple of Waverly and this new building will be home of Charlotte's relocation NN Inc. 

[SgtCampsalot]

2 hours ago, KJHburg said:

Couple from Lincoln Harris's Rea Farms Village. Apartments over retail and huge Lifestyle fitness center.  100s of construction workers here and across the street at Waverly and Providence Farms by Crescent. 

couple of Waverly and this new building will be home of Charlotte's relocation NN Inc. 

Beautiful corner architecture. But the question is: will the ground floor be retail or garages? 

[KJHburg]

^^^ Ground floor is all retail 

[HighRiseHillbilly]

I went to check out Waverly, etc. the other day.  WOOF.  That is the beige-iest mass of I don't know what. I didn't even bother with pictures.

I really wanted to like it, but holy mayonnaise in a bucket....  They need to bring in some large trees, flowers, shrubbery, add some sort of roof features if not structured roofs themselves, gargoyles... something! Even awnings would help and nobody likes awnings. 

It's remarkably busy for so much nothingness out there. There are so many businesses advertised, but the layout and color scheme makes it look like a strip mall in a desert with a cul-de-sac a few feet behind it. Something needs to make it feel more connected besides that lack-of-color scheme. They most certainly did not achieve what they were going for.

 

I couldn't get too close to Rea Farms, but It doesn't seem like it will be much better. 

 

[Matthew.Brendan]

It truly is awful. Absolutely no chance taken on anything other than the standard individual stores with their individual parking.  Guess a parking deck with a pedestrian friendly storefronts with greenery and benches is just too much to ask for. 

[cjd5050]

16 hours ago, Matthew.Brendan said:

It truly is awful. Absolutely no chance taken on anything other than the standard individual stores with their individual parking.  Guess a parking deck with a pedestrian friendly storefronts with greenery and benches is just too much to ask for. 

It's pretty disappointing.  That said this fraction of the project actually feels well designed.    Need to really stress fraction of the project. 

[southslider]

^Crop out surface parking and any generic development looks better!

 

[cjd5050]

10 hours ago, southslider said:

^Crop out surface parking and any generic development looks better!

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I agree but what makes this particular part of the project interesting to me is the variation of entry points and sightlines.  

[HighRiseHillbilly]

4 hours ago, cjd5050 said:

I agree but what makes this particular part of the project interesting to me is the variation of entry points and sightlines.  

The elevated Starbucks was the only thing I noticed, but I'll try again to see what you see.

[Cadi40]

What Waverly needed was a parking garage instead of a Parking Lot. Or at least one parking garage and very few and isolated surface spots.

[KJHburg]

Couple of photos of Rea Farms Village Lincoln Harris's mixed use walkable suburban town center.  I know many of you detest these type developments but I don't.  They provide walkable developments that mix single family homes, apartments, senior apartments (at RVF) shopping, and office buildings a true live work shop stay environment.  There will be a hotel here too plus a public STEM school and of course the huge Lifestyle Fitness Center.  And to the thousands upon thousands of suburbanites who live nearby they become gathering points.  The huge super sized Harris Teeter is now under construction. 

[Cadi40]

Drove by that project and it is absolutely ginormous. 

[Richhamleigh, DC]

I don't hate the project either but I think the commercial section is backwards. The Harris Teeter should be closest to the residential area instead of farthest away. Being able to walk to a grocery is a remarkable amenity.

[KJHburg]

Photos of Rea Farms Village by Lincoln Harris today. It is coming together and the 75,000 sq ft Harris Teeter is now underway.  Lifetime Fitness center open.  This will be a great project for south Charlotte and Waxhaw Weddington areas a walkable town center environment.  100s of apartments, senior apartments, single family new homes and townhomes too.  Plus it will have a huge village green area with outdoor video screen for movies and so forth.  Site plan here http://reafarmsvillage.com/

 

Edited December 31, 2017 by KJHburg

[Cadi40]

Also a Hotel, It's right across the street from Waverly. This area is becoming an Urban center for the Union County Residents.

[KJHburg]

Waverly announced it will start its 2nd 154,000 sq ft office building with an anchor tenant signed on.   What this is showing that mixed used areas are great in attracting tenants whether in the suburbs like Waverly or intown like SouthEnd or Uptown (which of course is the biggest mixed used neighborhood in town)    That is why you will see Ballantyne adding more walkable amenities such as housing, retail etc near their office buildings.  

https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2018/02/07/waverly-developer-ready-to-break-ground-on-second.html?ana=TWT_staffAF

[SydneyCarton]

On 12/31/2017 at 3:50 PM, KJHburg said:

This will be a great project for south Charlotte and Waxhaw Weddington areas a walkable town center environment.  

 

I agree.  I really like LH's work.

This is my old neighborhood.  I lived there for three years until I got tired of the traffic and moved closer in.  Otherwise, I loved the area and think this will be a great addition.

I'd like to see LH take over the Lat Purser site on Providence and Newtown Rd by the entrance to Weddington Chase.

Edited February 7, 2018 by SydneyCarton

[cjd5050]

I like many of the elements of Rea Farms but they missed the mark in other places.  

For example, they did a great job with stacking structured parking behind the main office buildings at the back of the project but got lazy at the front of the project.  They could have incorporated the HT into the street grid while still providing the sea of parking they surely demanded.   It's not unusual for a grocery store to have multiple entrances and they should have tried to hide that parking behind a complete wall of buildings facing the green.   They also could have wrapped the structured parking with ground floor retail creating a N/S corridor crossing the same green.   

Hell, with hiding the parking behind structures I feel like you could reduce the need for islands in the parking lots to try and cover the concert jungle.  In turn, that could have actually delivered more parking and a better overall experience.  

[J-Rob]

Pic 1:  New Fresh Market along Providence road, near intersection with Fairview.

Pic 2: Apartments rising across the street from new Fresh Market.

Neither project is all that exciting on its on, but both are built alongside road, unlike their predecessors, creating a much more urban feel.

 

Edited February 25, 2018 by J-Rob

[cjd5050]

Does anyone know what is going to happen with the current HT once they move to the new location at Rea Farms just behind?  

An uber driver claimed to have spoken to people who worked at penn station subs and was informed that they were going to demolish the entire front plaza.  I am 99.9999% sure that's BS but now am curious what's going to go in the large HT space.

[KJHburg]

16 minutes ago, cjd5050 said:

Does anyone know what is going to happen with the current HT once they move to the new location at Rea Farms just behind?  

An uber driver claimed to have spoken to people who worked at penn station subs and was informed that they were going to demolish the entire front plaza.  I am 99.9999% sure that's BS but now am curious what's going to go in the large HT space.

Nope your uber driver is correct.  It will be eventually bulldozed over and made a part of Rea Farm Village. Same family owns the land and leases that land to the shopping center.  When it will happen I don't know but that shopping center will be bulldozed at some point. 

[cjd5050]

2 hours ago, KJHburg said:

Nope your uber driver is correct.  It will be eventually bulldozed over and made a part of Rea Farm Village. Same family owns the land and leases that land to the shopping center.  When it will happen I don't know but that shopping center will be bulldozed at some point. 

Wow.  That's crazy and feels like such a waste.  

[KJHburg]

Waverly was hopping mid day today and the place is 50% restaurants.   Hilton Garden Inn still not opened yet. 3rd photo is an Astroturf lawn.