Watermark

[atlrvr 1483]

Tuscan Development just received its building permit this week for "The Watermark", the controversial 4-story mixed use building overlooking the greenway, opposite Kings Dr......

Hopefully it will be glassy, though Tuscan typically has slightly forward looking stuff.

[A2 2]

Tuscan Development just received its building permit this week for "The Watermark", the controversial 4-story mixed use building overlooking the greenway, opposite Kings Dr......

Hopefully it will be glassy, though Tuscan typically has slightly forward looking stuff.

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awesome. thanks for the update atlrvr

[dubone 959]

that is great news. i'm not sure why it is controversial, but i think it will be a great addition, and be really cool looking up on the hill overlooking the greenway.

[atlrvr 1483]

It narrowly passed the rezoning due to the protest petition....the adjoining property owners argued that it was too large for that street, and that it would put surface parking too close to the creek once it was uncapped.....the county is considering jogging the creek away from Watermark to make sure an appropriate buffer is maintained.

[nmcheese 0]

Does this Watermark development have a website yet - google didn't turn up much.

(Yep - longtime lurker, first post - I'll be more productive eventually though )

[dubone 959]

Does this Watermark development have a website yet - google didn't turn up much.

(Yep - longtime lurker, first post - I'll be more productive eventually though    )

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welcome

[cooperdawg 0]

It narrowly passed the rezoning due to the protest petition....the adjoining property owners argued that it was too large for that street, and that it would put surface parking too close to the creek once it was uncapped.....the county is considering jogging the creek away from Watermark to make sure an appropriate buffer is maintained.

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That would be unfortunate to move the creek like that given the extensive designs we've worked on for that area of the greenway. That's a tricky piece of land and moving the creek now would be a drastic blow to that design.

As a footnote, another project we're working on is for the greenway between Morehead and East. Clearing will begin hopefully in October of all invasive species and replanted with native species at that time.

[Miesian Corners 780]

I'm sure this is posted somewhere else, but did anyone see the rendering of Tuscan Development's Watermark condo building in today's Observer insert Living Here? It's the one being built on the Sugar Creek Greenway in Midtown. I couldn't find it on their website, but the pic in the Disturber is way cool. Very mod and hip and much larger than I though it was supposed to be. It looks like five stories in the rendering. I will try and scan a copy later and insert.

[eastsider 381]

Just looked it up, looks nice, very modern.

[ElricSeven 0]

Just looked it up, looks nice, very modern.

what's the link?

[monsoon 0]

It's a magazine in the printed Observer. You have to link $1.50 into a paper box.

[ElricSeven 0]

It's a magazine in the printed Observer. You have to link $1.50 into a paper box.

Silly. Hmm, you'd think they would have a website somewhere...

[dubone 959]

It's a magazine in the printed Observer. You have to link $1.50 into a paper box.

they print the news on paper? sounds very ineffiecient to me .

[eastsider 381]

Not sure if it's related to this project or not, but it looks like someone has purchased http://www.watermarkcondo.com . Right now it just says that the site is under construction.

[graydog 0]

This is the best my scanner could do. Please post if you have a better scanner.

[dubone 959]

here is the aerial

http://virtualearth.msn.com/default.aspx?c...le=h&lvl=18&v=1

here is the rezoning siteplan

http://www.charmeck.org/Departments/Planni...ns/2004-057.htm

i'm surprised tuscan doesn't have it on its website, though.

[monsoon 0]

The Living Here magazine in today's Observer is worth the cost of a printed copy even if you throw away the rest of the paper. It has a lot of information about the city, especially downtown, and there is a high class glossy full page advert for the Vue too. There is an article on Living in the Heart of CLT by some guy named Binyamin Applebaum, and another one of the street car suburbs near downtown.

I didn't realize that if you drive one look around 485, (once complete) it is almost 68 miles. There is a guide to all the exits. There are pretty good articles on the LRT and the CATS bus system. All the things we love here at UrbanPlanet.

In the guide to the projects, it does still list The Park as a viable project. 107 units, 21 stories.

[dubone 959]

some of the stories might actually be online here. you can order the living here mag for a few bucks from this location, too.

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/liv...visitors_guide/

uptown:

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/liv...de/12673196.htm

streetcar suburbs:

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/liv...de/12673191.htm

485:

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/liv...de/12673014.htm

CATS

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/liv...de/12673010.htm

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/liv...de/12673012.htm

Airport

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/liv...de/12673011.htm

[atlrvr 1483]

Drove by the Watermark the other day and they are already pouring the foundation.....I had no idea that it was going to be that mod....looks good.

[monsoon 0]

Hmm. I don't know. I am looking at it and it reminds me of an unfinished factory or a blimp hangar. I hope it looks better than that in real life.

[ElricSeven 0]

This is the best my scanner could do. Please post if you have a better scanner.

Nice. Thanks.

http://www.tuscandevelopment.com/index.html

Found the website, but nothing about the Watermark on it.

[Neo 199]

Did they make a typo on their website address in their ad in the paper? Looks like a .cm address to me.

[A2 2]

that is Watermark, the tuscan condos, discussed here:

http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/index.ph...05&hl=watermark

the midtown sundries, i believe will be swallow up as part of the greenway project. it floods all the time, so the office behind midtown sundries has been boarded up for a long time.

thx D. BTW, I tried to find a rendering of the project. I went through the thread and did not see it. I even went to their site (Tusca) and did not see the project there either. Huh Anywho, I am sad to see that the corner where midtown is at will not be developed, but I guess it is in fact in the flood plain as you commented on in your last post. Oh well. I wonder if they will just bulldose it and expand the green there?

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[dubone 959]

you will have to dust off the '93 Compaq at home. the rendering that was posted in the paper was scanned in on this post:

http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/index.ph...ndpost&p=205860

but i'm "guessing" that your firewall blocks the photo at work .

it is very modern. with lots of cubes, glass and steel. almost looks like a small office building, but it is actually condos.

EDIT: actually, tuscan's website says office, so i guess they aren't condos

[nyxmike 11]

Here is another rendering from Tuscan's website:

http://www.tuscandevelopment.com/pages/commer.htm

By the way, it's not condos, it's an office building. Completion date is May 2006.