FNB Tower 401 S Graham St (29 floors - 365 feet)

[Urban Cowboy]

[QCxpat]

Today 12:15 p.m.

Edited June 26, 2020 by QCxpat

[NCMike1990]

Tower crane is being raised!

[Urban Cowboy]

[dylansukkert]

Really disappointed we haven't been able to watch this rise from Knights games. This is going to make games feel a lot different when we can get back into Truist Ballpark along with some of the other new development we can see from the stadium. 

[Synopsis101]

I wish this had real retail.

[SpiritOf76]

[wadesboro2]

This is one of my favorite projects in Charlotte for a number of reasons.

1. Apartments and office in the same tower
2. Extension of the skyline and surrounding of RB park
3. Parking garage is wrapped in glass, like the old Wachovia buildings were. So it’s completely hidden not just screened.
4. Another logo on a tower that will see panthers stadium blimp coverage. Good advertising for the QC


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[KJHburg]

@SpiritOf76  you photo of the skyline from 77 above brought back memories of the young KJ with the 110 camera shooting out of the family sedan almost same spot.  

and there was no FNB, BofA Corp Center, Duke Energy and about 10 other buildings LOL 

from the KJ vault

 

2 hours ago, SpiritOf76 said:

 

[rancenc]

The cranes sticking out in the picture that KJHburg posted looks to possibly be the Charlotte Plaza Building which opened up in the early 80's if I am not mistaken!

[KJHburg]

1 hour ago, rancenc said:

The cranes sticking out in the picture that KJHburg posted looks to possibly be the Charlotte Plaza Building which opened up in the early 80's if I am not mistaken!

Correct so the photo was 1981 or so. 

[gman430]

 

[TheOneRJ]

[QCxpat]

Today 11:50 a.m.

 

Edited July 3, 2020 by QCxpat

[KJHburg]

FNB Tower and Honeywell Tower from afar both racing to be on the skyline.  2 great additions. 

[KJHburg]

Up close and drive by shots of FNB Tower.  Today. 

[Nick2]

I spy it starting to touch the skyline from brookshire.

[QCxpat]

Today 2:35 p.m.

Edited July 8, 2020 by QCxpat

[Blue_Devil]

On 7/6/2020 at 3:37 PM, KJHburg said:

FNB Tower and Honeywell Tower from afar both racing to be on the skyline.  2 great additions. 

I love this shot

[dylansukkert]

This tower doesn’t get the glory it deserves but it is already very imposing from the ballpark. Also a bonus shot of my least favorite sidewalk in Charlotte across the street, hopefully someone will do something about it with the added foot traffic in the are. 

[Matthew.Brendan]

Also in my top 5 faves. With that particular embankment I don’t know what to do there other than cut Graham to 1 lane? (Fine by me)

[ertley]

16 hours ago, dylansukkert said:

This tower doesn’t get the glory it deserves but it is already very imposing from the ballpark. Also a bonus shot of my least favorite sidewalk in Charlotte across the street, hopefully someone will do something about it with the added foot traffic in the are. 

Look: They've *very helpfully* indicated the corner of the retaining wall, so you can adjust your trajectory accordingly. What more could you ask for???

 

[DMann]

Concerning that sidewalk and the Duke SubStation there, I have a friend that sent me this:

Duke owns the land at the substation and the are likely to maintain that forever unless a major activity occurs to influence them to move the facilities.  The electrical infrastructure is a network system and each station provide a key distributed network for that local region.  Now if a major activity comes along , like a new coliseum or huge high rise that the general population supports, alternate sites to move might be investigated, but finding new right of way  to alternatively serve those facilities is always difficult (if not impossible) in a developed city.  

So lets talk about BOA situation.   If Tepper does build a new stadium and all that land is freed up for a new development backed by the city, there might be an opportunity to relocate since right of way access might open up.

[nyxmike]

1 hour ago, DMann said:

Concerning that sidewalk and the Duke SubStation there, I have a friend that sent me this:

Duke owns the land at the substation and the are likely to maintain that forever unless a major activity occurs to influence them to move the facilities.  The electrical infrastructure is a network system and each station provide a key distributed network for that local region.  Now if a major activity comes along , like a new coliseum or huge high rise that the general population supports, alternate sites to move might be investigated, but finding new right of way  to alternatively serve those facilities is always difficult (if not impossible) in a developed city.  

So lets talk about BOA situation.   If Tepper does build a new stadium and all that land is freed up for a new development backed by the city, there might be an opportunity to relocate since right of way access might open up.

Or they could give Graham Street a road diet with wider sidewalks, bike lanes, and street parking

[orulz]

Look up "gas insulated switchgear". The next time Duke has to overhaul that substation, they should rebuild it using GIS. It allows for a drastically reduced footprint, and for most of the equipment to be placed in an inconspicuous building rather than ominously buzzing behind a barbed wire fence in an open field of gravel.

The benefit for them? They get to sell off the surplus land.

Duke is planning to install its first new-build GIS substation in Asheville. (They did inherit several, including 3 in Chapel Hill.) I can think of no better place for a second one than practically in the shadow of their corporate HQ.