Downtown Greensboro Developments

[cityboi]

On 7/8/2018 at 10:59 AM, rancenc said:

Numerous small businesses opening up in downtown Greensboro

https://myfox8.com/2018/06/11/new-businesses-opening-in-downtown-greensboro-2/

Sweet! A bowling alley/bar lounge is proposed for the site at Lewis St and Elm st. The building on that site has already been torn down.

[cityboi]

Dram and Draught, an upscale whiskey and cocktail bar in Raleigh is opening a Greensboro location downtown in developer Marty Kotis's entertainment complex in what use to be a gas station many years ago.  A downtown Durham location is also opening.

 

https://downtowngreensboro.org/listings/dram-draught-greensboro/

Similar concept to Crafted The Art of Street Food near the ballpark with the garage doors that open the restaurant up.

Edited July 28, 2018 by cityboi

[cityboi]

Brew Peddlers trolley operating in downtown Greensboro. Pretty cool! The trolley with take you to bars and breweries and you can even bring your own alcohol to enjoy on the trolley. Everyone has to pedal. Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, Asheville and Wilmington  already have this kind of pub transportation and now Greensboro joins them. Several brew stops with more coming.

http://brewpeddlers.com

 

 

BREWERY STOPS.

 

Little Brother  Brewing across the street from Natty Greenes, one of the pedal stops.

Preyer Brewing is another stop 

Natty Greene's 

Joymongers 

Boxcar Barcade 

Cafe Europa 

Stumble Stilskin 

Edited August 2, 2018 by cityboi

[DowntownGSOGuy]

N & R reports that a developer plans to build 90 residential units at the corner of Gate City Blvd. and Elm St. in downtown Greensboro. This will be a combo of row houses and townhomes.

https://www.greensboro.com/business/local_business/group-to-build-south-elm-street-development-residential-units-planned/article_59c54a1b-71da-57d6-9dba-4f6d0b4e2e8b.html#utm_campaign=blox&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Edited August 17, 2018 by DowntownGSOGuy

[cityboi]

4 hours ago, DowntownGSOGuy said:

N & R reports that a developer plans to build 90 residential units at the corner of Gate City Blvd. and Elm St. in downtown Greensboro. This will be a combo of row houses and townhomes.

https://www.greensboro.com/business/local_business/group-to-build-south-elm-street-development-residential-units-planned/article_59c54a1b-71da-57d6-9dba-4f6d0b4e2e8b.html#utm_campaign=blox&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

More details 

https://www.greensboro.com/business/local_business/group-to-build-south-elm-street-development-plus-residential-units/article_59c54a1b-71da-57d6-9dba-4f6d0b4e2e8b.html

 

Conceptual designs of the row homes, some of which will border the southern leg of the downtown greenway loop.

[cityboi]

Bird e scooters are now in downtown Greensboro/UNCG. Last year Greensboro was the first city in the United States to have a dockless bike sharing program when California based Lime Bike launched its first such service in Greensboro.  Now the city has a dockless electric scooter service.  An electric bike sharing service will be coming to Greensboro as well.

Bird e scooter services are in 30 major U.S. cities across the country including Paris, France. Charlotte and Raleigh have the service as well. There is controversy about these scooters across the country in regards to safety. Many people using them aren't wearing helmets and these scooters go up to 15 mph. Lime scooters require a driver's license. It appears Bird scooters launched their program in Greensboro without the city's permission and will likely need a permit to operate. Bird and the city are working things out. Meanwhile you can ride a bird e scooter in Greensboro. However there is a 200 pound weight limit. In addition to bird e scooters, LimeBike will introduce their own e scooters in Greensboro as well as a Lime electric bike program.

Edited August 19, 2018 by cityboi

[AlmaPinnix]

Big news for the East side of downtown Greensboro!

https://www.greensboro.com/business/local_business/massive-downtown-residential-commercial-development-in-east-greensboro-planned-by/article_87418cc0-df1b-58b1-a1b9-887b9e3ab0d5.html

Edited September 6, 2018 by AlmaPinnix

[cityboi]

Day two of the North Carolina Folk Festival was a success.  Couldn't tell the difference between the National Folk Festival which was held downtown the last 3 years. With the atmosphere, sounds and people, it felt like you were in a big city. 5 stages are spread out around downtown with the smell of food and people everywhere. If you haven't been, check it out tomorrow, the last day. Ranks as one of the state's largest music festivals and has attracted people from all across the state.

Edited September 9, 2018 by cityboi

[cityboi]

New brewery coming downtown. Will be called South End Brewery and will include a beer garden.

 

https://www.greensboro.com/go_triad/dining/south-end-greensboro-getting-a-new-brewery/article_9605929c-71ad-55f9-baa6-2d40404c74a5.html

[cityboi]

Video link showing the progress report of downtown Greensboro projects 

 

https://myfox8.com/2019/01/22/progress-report-on-downtown-greensboro-construction/

[cityboi]

Developer Roy Carroll tweets he's thinking about building a downtown convention center. I do know there are talks of building one on the News and Record site across from the Westin. So will he be working with the Westin developer who purchased the site?

Let me guess...The Roy E. Carroll Convention Center.  He's going to have his name in everything downtown:)

 

He tweeted this a few days ago.

 

Edited January 27, 2019 by cityboi

[nicholas]

Did they ever make that announcement?

Edited February 2, 2019 by nicholas

[urbanpirate]

Ha!

[cityboi]

8 hours ago, nicholas said:

Did they ever make that announcement?

Well one of them which was actually about Carroll's purchase of the Hobbs Street site next to Friendly Center. No idea what he plans to build there which was the site Traders Joe's wanted to open a store until the neighbors ran them off.  But this particular announcement had nothing to do with downtown. But Carroll mentioned a second announcement in his tweet and below it said #downtowngreensboro

Edited February 3, 2019 by cityboi

[cityboi]

Downtown art and development. The work of developer Marty Kotis 

Tracks  Bazaar entertainment district 

 

There is a similar Dram and Draught whiskey bar in downtown Raleigh. Greensboro's use to be an old gas station.

Looks like another downtown grocery store!

This looks like a mixed-use store.  Either residential or office above it. It would be the second full service grocery store downtown.

There are currently no GFS Marketplace grocery stores in North Carolina however there is a distribution center in Concord.

Downtown school 

 

Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts 

 

More of Marty Kotis's Tracks Bazaar entertainment district.

Edited February 3, 2019 by cityboi

[cityboi]

Bonchon Korean restaurant getting ready to open downtown.

[cityboi]

Pay wall. But it looks like the developer building the mixed-use project at Union Square University campus is tweaking his plan and adding more apartments along with row homes that will border the southern Greenway loop 

 

https://www.bizjournals.com/triad/news/2019/03/07/developer-tweaks-plans-for-downtown-greensboro.html?iana=hpmvp_triad_news_headline

[cityboi]

9 hours ago, cityboi said:

Pay wall. But it looks like the developer building the mixed-use project at Union Square University campus is tweaking his plan and adding more apartments along with row homes that will border the southern Greenway loop 

 

https://www.bizjournals.com/triad/news/2019/03/07/developer-tweaks-plans-for-downtown-greensboro.html?iana=hpmvp_triad_news_headline

Here is a piece of the article. In addition to row homes the development next to Union Square will include a mixed-use building with office and retail with 6 story apartments. The mixed use building will be 120,000 square feet. The way the article is reading, it seems the six floors apartments will be part of the mixed-use building so I dont know if they will be stacked on top of the 3 floors of office a first floor retail. If that's the case, this is a 10-story building. There will be 40 row homes in groups of 5. This project is turning out to be bigger than expected.  A hotel will be included in a later phase. Construction on the row homes and mixed-use building will begin late summer. Arden Communities of Winston-Salem is the developer.

"Plans for the the multi-use building have yet to be finalized, Rhodes said. But the building will include 8,000 square feet of first-floor retail fronting South Elm and Gate City, with office space on three floors tentatively planned to total 46,235 square feet. A quarter-acre courtyard will separate the retail from the six floors of apartments. A parking structure will be built underneath the building."

Edited March 7, 2019 by cityboi

[cityboi]

Developer Roy Carroll tweeted he will reveal plans for "Carroll at Bellemeade South" in downtown Greensboro within 30 days.

Carroll said it would have several uses. Its expected it will include residential, office/retail and another hotel. I wonder if he'll include a convention center? There is enough land. The development site stretches a block down to Friendly Ave. Carroll tweeted a message about two months ago saying "I'm thinking about building a convention center downtown". Collectively there would be quite a bit of ballpark development. Four apartment complexes, two hotels, retail, a parking deck, two office projects (Project Slugger and Carroll at Bellemeade South) and maybe a convention center. It would be the only place he could build it. He only owns one other site downtown and that's the lot next to his Center Pointe condo highrise which Carroll plans a future tower there (probably for Project 561 when its back on the table) If he builds a convention center, it would be feasible to build a slightly larger hotel maybe around 200 rooms or more. In addition, a convention center on site would also mean we would see a taller residential/hotel project because it would take up quite a bit of land. Guess we will find out within 30 days.

[cityboi]

Love this shot 

Vintage downtown Greensboro 

Edited March 16, 2019 by cityboi

[SydneyCarton]

Is Carroll planning to build a new tower in Greensboro?

[cityboi]

10 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Is Carroll planning to build a new tower in Greensboro?

The Project 561 as originally planned on the site across the street from the ballpark is no more due to the city building its own parking deck. however we still dont know how Carroll has revamped his plans for the site. There could still be some sort of a highrise or midrise but not nearly as tall. He said he would reveal plans within 30 days so that could be anytime now. Carroll has not given up on 561. It just won't be built on that location. When he finally proceeds with those plans it will likely be built next to his Center Pointe tower instead. Carroll designed Center Pointe on the north side of the building with false windows and no balconies so in the future he can build a tower there.

Edited March 22, 2019 by cityboi

[SydneyCarton]

Thanks.  A mid rise was posted on the Charlotte site which they said was supposedly for Greensboro.  I didn’t know those statements were accurate.

I hope so.

Is GB also planning a new convention center?

[cityboi]

9 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Thanks.  A mid rise was posted on the Charlotte site which they said was supposedly for Greensboro.  I didn’t know those statements were accurate.

I hope so.

Is GB also planning a new convention center?

There has been serious discussions about a convention center. Roy Carroll even said he may build one downtown. If he does it will be built with his planned development across from the ballpark. If he doesn't build one, a developer will likely build one on the News and Record property across the street from the future Westin Hotel. The Westin Hotel developer purchased the News and Record property which could indicate he plans something to compliment the Westin like a convention center. But any such development would likely be mixed-use and include residential, office, retail and perhaps another hotel. With all the new hotels its not a matter of if a convention center gets built. Its a matter of who builds it, where it gets built and when it gets built.

Edited March 22, 2019 by cityboi

[SydneyCarton]

Thanks!  It’s nice to see GB grow.