The Ellis – 33 Floor Apartment Tower – Lennar does what Levine couldn't.

[Urban Cowboy]

Forgot to share this pic. The Ellis will be viewable heading northbound on college. Sight lines are important people!

Edited December 3, 2019 by Urban Cowboy

[DamicoKaren]

View from 5th 3rd building 

[KJHburg]

^^ great shot and you captured the crane of the Intercontinental too! 

[Scribe]

I got to sit in on the Barings/UNC Charlotte Economic Forecast at UNC Charlotte Uptown campus and snapped these photos...

[Windsurfer]

Nice photos!

I hope you post something in the coffee house about the predictions!!

[go_vertical]

21 minutes ago, Scribe said:

 

 

This would make a great vantage point to observe the oncoming densification of N Tryon. A slight rotation to the right would catch Intercontinental to 10 Tryon and everything in between. 

[gman430]

[j-man]

2 hours ago, gman430 said:

So you’re telling me the parking garage will be higher than the lower part of the apartments. Smh that is so tacky!! Like why? 

[nicholas]

2 hours ago, j-man said:

So you’re telling me the parking garage will be higher than the lower part of the apartments. Smh that is so tacky!! Like why? 

Because parking minimums are too high and design standards are too low.

[turbocraig]

The renderings shown on page 4 of this thread show the top of the deck flush with the tops of the apartments.  Wonder why that changed. 

Edited December 20, 2019 by turbocraig
Forgot pic

[KJHburg]

this is a very important project for the entire N Tryon First Ward area.  Photos from the streets today.  Like seeing 3 cranes.  Last photo no comment.  

[j-man]

2 hours ago, turbocraig said:

The renderings shown on page 4 of this thread show the top of the deck flush with the tops of the apartments.  Wonder why that changed. 

This will be like the third major project in uptown to have parking taller than residential. It’s like the top floor can just drive off on the roof of the apartments. 

[CharlotteWkndBuzz]

Don't forget to buy this game in time for Christmas lol:

I forget the retail numbers, but it looks like it could have a promising street presence. First ward/park is in need of more dining options. 7th street market is nice, but the park needs more options. 

[Brendv7]

20 hours ago, j-man said:

So you’re telling me the parking garage will be higher than the lower part of the apartments. Smh that is so tacky!! Like why? 

Oh no. You’ve gotta be kidding me. 

[cltheel.sdl]

To me, it looks like they still have one more floor of apartments to go.  So, I think the parking will be flush with the apartment roofline per the rendering.  Maybe I'm missing something here.

[TCLT]

1 hour ago, cltheel.sdl said:

To me, it looks like they still have one more floor of apartments to go.  So, I think the parking will be flush with the apartment roofline per the rendering.  Maybe I'm missing something here.

The rendering shows 6 floors of retail + apartments with the deck level with the top of that. The parking deck they actually built is 8 (8.5?) levels so definitely higher than the apartments. It would be cool if they're adding additional apartment floors, but I think that next "floor" is just framing for the mechanical screening. gman430's photos are great views of the deck as is.

And does anyone know what the upper level of the deck is going to be used for because it can't be accessed by cars? Amenity area, just a place for mechanical and support equipment, something else? It isn't in the renderings.

Edited December 21, 2019 by TCLT

[KJHburg]

I would say the frame stick built apartments are topped out as I am not sure you can do more than 5 floors of stick built and that parking deck boxed in could be for mechanical or some sort of amenity deck aka like Skyhouses have. 

[j-man]

On 12/21/2019 at 2:29 PM, TCLT said:

The rendering shows 6 floors of retail + apartments with the deck level with the top of that. The parking deck they actually built is 8 (8.5?) levels so definitely higher than the apartments. It would be cool if they're adding additional apartment floors, but I think that next "floor" is just framing for the mechanical screening. gman430's photos are great views of the deck as is.

And does anyone know what the upper level of the deck is going to be used for because it can't be accessed by cars? Amenity area, just a place for mechanical and support equipment, something else? It isn't in the renderings.

I think you cant actually add an apartment floor. 6 is max when it’s an all wood frame. It would have to be steel or concrete by law I believe to go higher than 6 floors. 

Edited December 22, 2019 by j-man

[RANYC]

Drove by The Ellis construction site this morning.   Phifer Avenue was a dense vagrant convention, pretty much in the shadows of the tower under development.   Def not for me, but I’m sure there’s a market for it out there.

[DMann]

A number of churches feed the homeless on Sunday mornings, thus the" vagrant convention"

[Desert Power]

22 minutes ago, RANYC said:

Drove by The Ellis construction site this morning.   Phifer Avenue was a dense vagrant convention, pretty much in the shadows of the tower under development.   Def not for me, but I’m sure there’s a market for it out there.

North Tryon is going to have a lot of challenges for a while, no doubt.

[Hushpuppy321]

On 12/21/2019 at 5:16 PM, j-man said:

I think you cant actually add an apartment floor. 6 is max when it’s an all wood frame. It would have to be steel or concrete by law I believe to go higher than 6 floors. 

I agree with your statement.  I had thought that 5 floors was the max permissible for wood framed apartments but if you look at the Spacing of the Floor Trusses it’s possible that they are adding an additional floor of apartments on that side.  Maybe Lennar bumped up the number of apartments for this project?  Gonna take closer look at the Southside photos @gman430 provided.

Edited December 23, 2019 by Hushpuppy321

[TCLT]

8 minutes ago, Hushpuppy321 said:

I agree with your statement.  I had thought that 5 floors was the max permissible for wood framed apartments but if you look at the Spacing of the Floor Trusses it’s most certain that they are adding an additional floor of apartments on that side.  Maybe Lennar bumped up the number of apartments for this project?

Is it possible that's simply to provide adequate strength to support the air conditioning units and other equipment getting put on the roof? I'm definitely not familiar with construction design and methods, just trying to understand what about the structure suggests it's for another floor.

[Hushpuppy321]

7 minutes ago, TCLT said:

Is it possible that's simply to provide adequate strength to support the air conditioning units and other equipment getting put on the roof? I'm definitely not familiar with construction design and methods, just trying to understand what about the structure suggests it's for another floor.

 That most certainly could be the case but if you look at the South side of the Ellis building from the photos @gman430 provided it looks like that side will be more than 5 Stories for the Apartments.  I’ve attached a marked up picture:  5 Doorways to access the Parking Deck from the Apartments on top of two (2) already constructed Levels and with one (1) higher Doorway to access the Rooftop of the Apartments for maintenance of the HVAC Systems.  

Along the north side of the building in question I’m not sure if they’ll be a 6th floor of apartments but the Southside surely looks like it will be more than 5.

Edited December 23, 2019 by Hushpuppy321

[UptownGottie]

3 hours ago, Hushpuppy321 said:

 That most certainly could be the case but if you look at the South side of the Ellis building from the photos @gman430 provided it looks like that side will be more than 5 Stories for the Apartments.  I’ve attached a marked up picture:  5 Doorways to access the Parking Deck from the Apartments on top of two (2) already constructed Levels and with one (1) higher Doorway to access the Rooftop of the Apartments for maintenance of the HVAC Systems.  

Along the north side of the building in question I’m not sure if they’ll be a 6th floor of apartments but the Southside surely looks like it will be more than 5.

That looks like it'll be for roof access