Square at South End - Mixed Use Project @ West and Tryon

[tozmervo]

That looks like good preparation for a dystopian future 

[KJHburg]

I spy a giraffe being put up at the Square.  We need more little parks like Wilmore Centennial Park around Southend!  

[RANYC]

45 minutes ago, KJHburg said:

I spy a giraffe being put up at the Square.  We need more little parks like Wilmore Centennial Park around Southend!  

Amazing space indeed.

[KJHburg]

Here is the leasing plan for the micro retail spots in the apartment building.  This should be great additional retail for Southend.

Ascent Centro Square Retail (loopnet.com)

[wilmore]

Is it likely the Bojangles or Check Cashing lots ever sell for additional development across the street? 

[Mgelbach]

I'm not sure about the Checks Cashed place, but I do know that that site is the location of the first ever Bojangles. It's been remodeled since, but it's a little piece of Charlotte history

[RugbyPike#11]

On 1/18/2022 at 1:05 PM, Mgelbach said:

I'm not sure about the Checks Cashed place, but I do know that that site is the location of the first ever Bojangles. It's been remodeled since, but it's a little piece of Charlotte history

It feels like the original Bojangles should have some brick, or at least a faux brick facade.  This first ever Bojangles looks like it could be any random Bojangles off I-95.  Celebrate the original Bojangles!!!

[JRCLT]

Since the original isn’t actually existing anymore (which was much more notable… see for yourself.)

I think this may be it:



https://www.wbtv.com/story/10497250/bojangles-history/

Wouldn’t mind a sycamore brewing style deal here if there was interest in development of that lot. The new space would likely be more urban style I’d hope. It would still remain the site of the first ever Bojangles + other development on top.

[j-man]

I Just saw the prices for these apartments....No I'm not interested in paying 1,200 dollars for a closet, oops I mean apartment  thats about 375 square feet. 

Edited January 23, 2022 by j-man

[RANYC]

21 minutes ago, j-man said:

I Just saw the prices for this apartments....No I'm not interested in paying 1,200 dollars for a closet, oops I mean apartment  thats about 375 square feet. 

You're most likely not the target.  Product geared toward those who prize walkability, access, and who live lean and sleek.  You trade in a large living room, family room, backyard for the public square or adjacent plaza.  You trade in a dining room for the range of proximal restaurants and cafes.  If you've spent a lot of time in cities overseas, you'll know that this kind of product integrated into lively surroundings can work and has allure to the right target.  

[Mgelbach]

USAA signage going up

[KJHburg]

this project just turned out great!  It shows you don't need 30-40 stories to be a great project.  Cant wait to see the small micro retail spots fill up.   Apartments look fantastic. 

[Mgelbach]

Looks like the office tower is about done! Move in dates for the apartments are March.

[deleted account]

3 hours ago, Mgelbach said:

Looks like the office tower is about done! Move in dates for the apartments are March.

Great pictures as usual. I know someone who has been working in the tower for some time now.

[KJHburg]

still love this project.  

[KJHburg]

These Centro apartments look great and cant wait to see their retail lineup in the small spaces and I think they have one restaurant spot overlooking the park. 

[TGIBridays]

On 2/25/2022 at 3:58 PM, KJHburg said:

These Centro apartments look great and cant wait to see their retail lineup in the small spaces and I think they have one restaurant spot overlooking the park. 

For the longest time I thought they were just going to leave the exposed concrete parking deck there and got sad every time I looked out the window at work. I was so happy when they started building the apartments.  

[Mgelbach]

[KJHburg]

Kudos to Beacon Partners and Centro for this great mixed used development.  (and a photo of of the only hotel currently in Southend) 

[RANYC]

I know many of us don't like the car-centricity implied by new construction with such large garages.  

But I'd like to pause to celebrate how much better we've become as a city at hiding the garages.  I stayed at the Ashton when I arrived in Charlotte.  Its garage sticks out like a sore thumb.  It surely would have been integrated into the bones of the building were it built today.   

While an embedded garage means a project is probably stuck with it for the life of the building with limited opportunity to reuse the garage space, I still think I'd rather hide it and use adjacent land for other uses and more refined architecture.

[jjwilli]

/rant This is worse screened deck in South End since the same developer built the Rail Yard. Don’t get me wrong, I love the micro retail these buildings have brought to the area. And I appreciate them fronting the money for the park to be completed. Just wish they would screen their decks much better. IMO South Tryon should not have an exposed parking deck facing it like this apartment building does.

[JacksonH]

2 hours ago, RANYC said:

While an embedded garage means a project is probably stuck with it for the life of the building with limited opportunity to reuse the garage space, 

Why must it be that way?  Why can't these garages (at least some of them) be built with flat sufaces, with a separate spiral ramp to get to each level, like the CLT airport garage?  If they had flat surfaces they could easily be converted to other uses.

[JRCLT]

Why must it be that way?  Why can't these garages (at least some of them) be built with flat sufaces, with a separate spiral ramp to get to each level, like the CLT airport garage?  If they had flat surfaces they could easily be converted to other uses.

Likely cost.

[KJHburg]

Spiral ramps at the ends of garages do add cost and also take up space.   Make sense at the airport but not many other places even though 200 South College old BB&T building has a flat garage floor with spirals but that garage is a block long!

[videtur quam contuor]

The Springhill hotel has a garage with Axe Throwing on the ground level. (What a strange sentence.) Spiral ramp and flat floor parking. I went up the ramp one Sunday morning on my bicycle and the security person went floor to floor on the elevator searching for me and eventually met me on the top level. He said I should take the elevator down and leave immediately. At that time parking garages were my climbing preference for cycling.