The Madison

[charlotte49ersuptown]

Are they just going to put condos the width of the elevator shafts or over the whole parkig deck. If not, it seems this project makes no sense. How can they be breaking even if they are going 10 floors up with such a narrow base.

[rockhilljames]

Holy Christmas Mackeral.

I'll miss the empty elevator shafts.

[dubone]

I will be surprised if they don't make the complex to be like an E from above. It seems like if they don't have a section of the condos facing away from the current hotel towers, that those condos will need to be very very cheap. Its one thing to have a bedroom or bathroom window facing the back of a Garden Inn. But to have every room in the place with that view is just crazy.

[queensguy06]

I dunno if I would say I am going to miss the towers...they have been an eyesore for years now. It just looks so odd to see 2 fake clock towers perched high atop an open parking garage. I really think it doesn't matter what they build inbetween those things, it has to look better than it does now.

I say that and just watch...

[charlotte49ersuptown]

In all my time working on development research, I have never seen a project so tight lipped, Wachovia doesn't even come close to this project. Spending two days on trying to find anything about the project and coming up with nothing makes me wonder if these developers want to make money. This isn't exactly the sexiest location in Uptown Charlotte as of now. Maybe Second Ward Projects are cursed (i.e. The Park). If anyone has anything, please come foward.

[atlrvr]

Yes, but unlikely The Park, which has sold out quite a few times before, and is still essentially the same parking deck as ever, they actually have a crane up and are laying steel on this project which apparantly hasn't sold one unit......sorry Park, but this is how you get it done......

[orulz]

Could this project be apartments rather than condos, hence the complete lack of pre-sales?

[atlrvr]

It could be....but the building permit lists it as 28 units, which would seem a rather small quantity to do apartments.

My guess is they think there is anough built up demand that they can sell them in one day at a higher price upon completion that they could presell them for.....

[rockhilljames]

You may have a point about that atlvr. Having a finished building, or one under construction, beats having a sales center any day of the week.

Also, I'm guessing this project will offer some of the hotel services as well, which will make it unique on the market.

[Miesian Corners]

Still, no one seems to know why ANYONE would want to live there. There will be NO windows overlooking the Charlotte skyline. Hell, there won't even be any windows overlooking the John Belk/Dilworth.

[Rickydavisfan21]

People who wanna say, "I live in downtown", but never take their friends to see their condo, thats my take on it, thats the only excuse I could think of, they better be cheap

[UrbanCharlotte]

Maybe they'll make the tower 50 stories so they have views of uptown, and on top of the parking, the tallest units in Charlotte?nvm. Anyone go by the site today?

[Rickydavisfan21]

let me rephrase my previous statement, they better be $50 a square foot, and too my knowledge that isn't possible, would anyone here actually consider buying something there?

[UrbanCharlotte]

If it was $50 a sq.ft.

[rockhilljames]

If it was $50/sq. ft I'd buy two.

[Charlotteman]

I'm interested in seeing a pic of the faux clock tower!

[unccmyway]

umm...just look at page 3 of this thread.

[Charlotteman]

Every city probably has at least one real oddity---something that you look at and say "Why??????"

[UrbanCharlotte]

Well, from what the guy operating the "crane" told me, it is just going to be an extension to the parking deck.

[queensguy06]

Every city probably has at least one real oddity---something that you look at and say "Why??????"

We have two...the faux clock tower and the Arlington. Just think, the Arlington was originally planned to be 40 something stories.

[AuLukey]

We have two...the faux clock tower and the Arlington. Just think, the Arlington was originally planned to be 40 something stories.

You know, even though I'm not a fan of the pink, it may have been more attractive at 4x stories because i'm sure it would've been more architecturally aesthetic.

[Charlotteman]

An earlier post mentioned that the two hotels look like a typical Myrtle Beach complex...I couldn't have said it better myself.

A condo tower there would only add to the bizarre appearance, in my humble opinion:)

[Rickydavisfan21]

the original panos renderings that were in CLTBJ were actually not bad, with the hotel in the middle, but I have not been able to locate them, they weren't quite as myrtle beach, they looked like 3 nice additions to downtown, boy was wrong, and that was me who called it myrtle beach

We have two...the faux clock tower and the Arlington. Just think, the Arlington was originally planned to be 40 something stories.

but the arlington was stunning at 42 stories, I always loved that design, as much as I was against us becoming atlantesque with a building outside of our CBD, but apparently over the years I've started wanting that, because now I wouldn't mind another skyline down south blvd

[Mobuchu]

umm...just look at page 3 of this thread.

Well, from what the guy operating the "crane" told me, it is just going to be an extension to the parking deck.

Looks like it will be more than that. These are from the 3rd.

[cinco]

man... i am trying to understand this thing... looks like something you'd see near disney world. maybe they can pull something off here???