Duke Energy Plaza Headquarters | 40 Story formerly Charlotte Metro Tower

[mand1ng0sauc3]

3 minutes ago, grodney said:

I wasn't brave enough to copy and paste, hahahahaha!

I know what you mean but this is exciting! I am hoping I still will be around for it now hahahaha.

[CTiger]

39 floors would rule out any conversations about a new tallest in Charlotte.  If you take the same height/floors ratio used in the DEC (including the big handle), that would put this tower at about 639' - a bit higher than LU1.  Time will tell how tall they decide to build this thing.

Edited December 7, 2018 by CTiger

[CLTProductions]

I just got happy pants

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, CTiger said:

39 floors would rule out any conversations about a new tallest in Charlotte.  If you take the same height/floors ratio used in the DEC (including the big handle), that would put this tower at about 639' - a bit higher than LU1.  Time will tell how tall they decide to build this thing.

Its time for height guesses!

Personally I'm going to guess 671' I was told 100' of decoration a while back.

 

Edited December 7, 2018 by Guest

[Dale]

Renderings soon, please!

 

[jjwilli]

https://news.duke-energy.com/releases/duke-energy-to-consolidate-uptown-charlotte-office-space-with-new-building-reaffirming-its-commitment-to-uptown?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=DukeEnergy&utm_term=Economic+development-Investment-multimedia&utm_content=1968932511-20181207-20181207171100&utm_campaign=Evergreen

More details in this press release.

[sclark]

"Parking: Seven-level above-ground parking"

[SydneyCarton]

Merry Christmas!!!!!

[navigator319]

Rendering Q1 the messages says.  This great news.  My initial questions/comments are...

1. I hope there is more then just office component in one tower on that land.  I'd like two structures.

2. The data center site and old 1960's Duke on Church they both plan to sell.... I can't see any use for them other then demolish and new build of something at some point.   Does anyone think they are viable for a use other than demo and new build?

3. Come on go bigger than 39 floors.  Consolidate the rest of your space and go 50+ 

[Dale]

1 minute ago, sclark said:

"Parking: Seven-level above-ground parking"

Hopefully incorporating copious retal in keeping with its location.

39 stories atop 7 story parking ?

[DMann]

I am more excited for the replacement of the 526 College Street location.  I see a continuation of LU going towards the current Ally Building, hopefully residential for sale units.

 

[navigator319]

Yea the 7 above parking scare me.  but this I like very much...

Once completed, approximately 25,000 square feet of new retail space will be available, including a walkway to connect the building lobby to Tryon and College Streets where additional retail space will reside.

[CarolinaDaydreamin]

7 minutes ago, sclark said:

"Parking: Seven-level above-ground parking"

Is that below the 39floors?

[CharlotteWkndBuzz]

9 minutes ago, CarolinaDaydreamin said:

Is that below the 39floors?

Doubt it, prob similar to how LU is with an attached garage to the side.

Edited December 7, 2018 by CharlotteWkndBuzz

[pathb]

50 minutes ago, navigator319 said:

2. The data center site and old 1960's Duke on Church they both plan to sell.... I can't see any use for them other then demolish and new build of something at some point.   Does anyone think they are viable for a use other than demo and new build?

1000 room convention-center hotel site...?

[Dale]

Not to be lost in all this, the ‘parking lot’ is about to go away.

[navigator319]

29 minutes ago, pathb said:

1000 room convention-center hotel site...?

Yea I know this site has been talked about for that.  I'm more curious in if anyone thinks both of Dukes for sale sites could be 'saved' and made useful as is for a new owner.  I'm hoping no one does as I want these brutalist monstrosities leveled ASAP.

[pathb]

From their press release:

Quote

"By consolidating office space into a new building, the company will avoid spending millions of dollars annually to manage and maintain several inefficient and aging facilities that are more than 40 years old."

...

"These actions will allow us to operate our business more efficiently, enhance employee productivity and better serve our customers and communities," said Melissa Anderson, Duke Energy's executive vice president, administration and chief human resources officer. "It will also free up premium real estate in Uptown Charlotte – currently in high demand – for other purposes."

I don't think they'll be marketing those parcels based on the value of those buildings...

[grodney]

2 minutes ago, pathb said:

I don't think they'll be marketing those parcels based on the value of those buildings...

I wonder if those parcels are too far from Bearden for the dog park?

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, pathb said:

From their press release:

I don't think they'll be marketing those parcels based on the value of those buildings...

oh yea, those will be demolished. Unlike AT&T Plaza, which is was only 22-23 years old when it was redone,  the college street and church street buildings are turds and will see the wrecking ball. Which is great news, they are both miserable from street level an architecturally insignificant. They are more valuable as future additions to the advancing streetscape of college street, church street, and stonewall street, respectively.

Edited December 7, 2018 by Guest

[navigator319]

1 minute ago, grodney said:

I wonder if those parcels are too far from Bearden for the dog park?

Would be the most expensive dog park ever.  I would not support it regardless though and I have a dog and live uptown.  Don't any gov city folk get any ideas for green space from these lots 

[15895]

We need Norm to score us some renderings :p

[Scribe]

3 hours ago, sclark said:

"Parking: Seven-level above-ground parking"

I find it strange that the parking deck below "The Green" (right next door) can be buried and this 7 story monstrosity cannot be at least partially submerged...

[KJHburg]

^^^ Digging a huge underground parking garage between 2 of them could be risky (remember there is a garage under the Harvey B Gantt too). 

Very exciting news and finally a corporate owned tower for the largest investor owned utility in the country.  Their last owner occupied building in uptown Charlotte was the 526 S Church the concrete bunker looking building and that was in the early 1970s I think.   So while all their competitors around the country have new buildings Duke has not.  They are just a tenant in the Wells Fargo owned Duke Energy Center and 400 South Tryon building which I heard years ago they wanted to leave it.  It is always cheaper to own a building than rent in various places uptown.  This is a cost saving move for Duke and I know critics won't see it that way but it is for the long run.  This company is committed to Charlotte uptown Charlotte and the Carolinas for the long run.   I noticed today their building in Raleigh has 2 other office tenants now and I think that will grow as that is a early 1980s building that Progress had.  

Great news and can't wait to see the renderings and hope this is the new 3rd tallest!    Photo of the building site from Sept. 23 2018.    a new addition to Charlotte rising!  Wait till the national media gets here in 2020 and sees the Ally Tryon Place going up and this tower rising.  Plus all the other new buildings just completed. 

[JorgiPorgi]

The largest power company in the country and they can’t score a new tallest? Oh well- still glad Charlotte is building 600+ feet office towers. Hope it has a modern(iconic) design- something like the three or four points on each corner like we heard about earlier.