The RailYard SouthEnd

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That red, red clay. When I moved here after growing up in the Midwest with its beautiful black friable soil I came to a moving appreciation for the grave diggers of this region. To dig 4-5 feet into this hard, shovel bending clay mass and then with just a light rain becoming like tallow and needing assistance to be pulled from the hole seemed a nasty and depressing way to make a living.

[Guest]

59 minutes ago, AirNostrumMAD said:

I wonder what the “back” of this project will look like 

the back is 6 floors of David Furman designed apartments. Should look fine.

Not sure if Love, or absolutely hate.

Edited November 21, 2017 by Guest

[Bikeguy]

3 hours ago, tarhoosier said:

That red, red clay. When I moved here after growing up in the Midwest with its beautiful black friable soil I came to a moving appreciation for the grave diggers of this region. To dig 4-5 feet into this hard, shovel bending clay mass and then with just a light rain becoming like tallow and needing assistance to be pulled from the hole seemed a nasty and depressing way to make a living.

The insidious bull tallow, the bane of our existence.   

https://ui.uncc.edu/story/piedmont-nc-soils-bull-tallow

[jednc]

3 hours ago, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:

the back is 6 floors of David Furman designed apartments. Should look fine.

Not sure if Love, or absolutely hate.

I'm profoundly bad at "reading" these types of plans but it looks pretty good to me.

[KJHburg]

Today from their OxBlue cam another tower to watch rise. 

[KJHburg]

This video is great for this fantastic project may not be the tallest but this is destined to be one of the best new office buildings in the city.   Check out that office space fly throughs and views. 

If this has been posted already my apologies for I have not seen this until today 

[Green_man]

This is a cool looking project!  But I thought at first the base 2 story sections were renovations to existing buildings incorporated in the new project.  But I guess not, seems kinda fake and gimmicky.  Is there some significance of this site to a railyard?? 

[KJHburg]

No railyard was ever in this area from what I know.  However the southend area was one of the first industrial areas of Charlotte that I do know.  Nebel Hoisery mills aka the Design Center and Lance Cookie and Cracker plant aka Factory South condos.  I had relatives work in both factories. 

[Guest]

14 minutes ago, Green_man said:

This is a cool looking project!  But I thought at first the base 2 story sections were renovations to existing buildings incorporated in the new project.  But I guess not, seems kinda fake and gimmicky.  Is there some significance of this site to a railyard?? 

Gimmicky?? This is how the entire neighborhood should be built out. Look at Charleston and Savannah, hell even Durham and Raleigh. These things can be built to match a turn of the century aesthetic, and frankly to pay homage to the history of this area/district it should 100% be designed and built in that regard.

[SgtCampsalot]

I was hoping to see way more than 100 micro units here, but I know the market's gotta start somewhere. I'm assuming this project's success will act as a catalyst for more intense micro style projects to come.

Edited November 28, 2017 by SgtCampsalot

[NCMike1990]

5 hours ago, KJHburg said:

Today from their OxBlue cam another tower to watch rise. 

Is there a link to the webcam?

EDIT: Never mind. Found it here.

Edited November 28, 2017 by NCMike1990

[Nick2]

8 hours ago, KJHburg said:

This video is great for this fantastic project may not be the tallest but this is destined to be one of the best new office buildings in the city.   Check out that office space fly throughs and views. 

If this has been posted already my apologies for I have not seen this until today 

How do you embed a video like that? You can send it in a direct mail if you want.

[KJHburg]

I just took the URL and cut and paste and it embedded automatically.  

[Donpaul]

Does anyone know if the front of the Railyard will be facing S.Tryon Street or Winnifred Street? 

[Guest]

10 minutes ago, Donpaul said:

Does anyone know if the front of the Railyard will be facing S.Tryon Street or Winnifred Street? 

South Tryon Street. Winnifred will be Apartments.  I posted elevations somewhere on this site. lol

Edited January 2, 2018 by Guest

[KJHburg]

Here is the website I don't think I have seen this before.  http://www.railyardsouthend.com/

[Guest]

This is what they look like facing Winnifred below.

[atlrvr]

I'm thinking this may go up without a tower crane....that large mobile crane may be all that's used, especially if it's steel beams...of which, a few were delivered to the site today.

[dylansukkert]

Looks like they are going vertical now! This will be exciting to watch on the webcam.

[KJHburg]

Yes and I drove by today and got some shots I was surprised to see steel going up.  Drive by photos. 

[Scribe]

Steel can go up very fast, but it also helped that there was no real excavation done on the site...

[carolinaboy]

2/9/18

[AppState92]

Based on the rendering it’s 8 floors, but thought they had flexibility to expand to 10 if there was enough leasing interest.  Now that it’s going vertical, I’m curious if they were able to expand.

[carolinaboy]

2/16/18

 

[KJHburg]

This is FLYING up and wonder if they have a tenant lined up for a chunk of it??? Drive by shots.    This and DFA building and of course Legacy are my favorites right now under construction.