North End Projects - Camp NorthEnd, Lockwood, Greenville, Double Oaks

[KJHburg]

Decided to drive in like a boss. Today.  LOVE these old buildings the old Ford Factory. Surveying going on today marking utilities. So much potential and as my friend said there is nothing like this in Charlotte on this scale. Like old tobacco factories in Winston or Durham. Imagine the last building as a restaurant the old power plant boiler room. 

[Guest]

Got the plans coming my way shortly, but here you go guys. This is gonna be fudgeing huge. 

Edit: Here are the future buildout plans. I think this will be a really long drawn out build and they are just mapping out and creating entitlements for now. But yea. This will be Bigly transformative

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Edited February 27, 2017 by Guest

[Matthew.Brendan]

Trying to orient this, is 5A the water tower building shown in the pictures above? 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Matthew.Brendan said:

Trying to orient this, is 5A the water tower building shown in the pictures above? 

the Watertower is beside 8

[lit]

Party at the Moon Tower, y'all 

[11 HouseBZ]

Extremely happy with this so far, being that most of the buildings will remain intact. The future roads through the site are well placed to allow connection to the surrounding neighborhood. Very excited for this project to get up and running. Thanks for posting RDF.

[QClifer]

Does anybody remember when the brewery on Woodward (north side of Hercules) is supposed to open?  I believe it was going to be a 2nd Heist brewery. Does not look like any construction has started. 

[Guest]

On 3/4/2017 at 5:23 PM, QClifer said:

Does anybody remember when the brewery on Woodward (north side of Hercules) is supposed to open?  I believe it was going to be a 2nd Heist brewery. Does not look like any construction has started. 

I think its rezoning was JUST approved. The still have to get planning dept approval and permits.

[KJHburg]

If you want to see old factories turned into offices retail and very cool spaces head 2 hours north of Charlotte to downtown Durham. All over the city they have turned their old brick tobacco warehouses and cigarette factories into loft offices, retail, apartments etc. That is why I so excited about Camp North End. Charlotte never had factories like downtown Durham or even Winston. Our mills were in the then suburbs. Check out these photos I took today around the American Tobacco Factory Campus in downtown Durham. If you haven't been up there go easy Saturday day trip. Here is one building I saw I loved being renovated now. 

 

[KJHburg]

Camp NorthEnd gets it first tenant a nonprofit taking 35,000 sq ft. http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2017/04/03/junior-achievement-to-move-from-uptown-to-camp.html?ana=RSS%26s%3Darticle_search&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

[CLT704]

Camp North End is a seriously bad name, what is this? A summer camp for middle schoolers? 

[KJHburg]

It goes back to its historical roots. It was a military base during WW II hence the camp name. But before that is was the Ford Model T plant. After WW II it became a missile assembly plant during the Cold War. The Camp name goes back to the military heritage. The first time I heard South End I thought that was crazy too (the north end of South Blvd?) but it obviously grew on me.  I love this project and what it will do for that entire area and the city as a whole. People will be saying in the future meet me at such and such at Camp North End. I do believe this is our Ponce City Market like in Atlanta but spread over more buildings. 

 

This is from a Business Journal article this morning 

The first project, expected to get underway this summer, will open up the 18,000-square-foot Raceway Building at the heart of the site for new uses. A site plan for the building indicates several spaces, as small as 508 square feet up to 4,521 square feet, will accommodate tenants or be leased out for events. Hemmerdinger said one-half to two-thirds of that space is already accounted for

Edited April 4, 2017 by KJHburg

[jjwilli]

Is the old rail line through this property abandoned? If not, who owns it? It could make for a nice trail into uptown from this part of town.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, jjwilli said:

Is the old rail line through this property abandoned? If not, who owns it? It could make for a nice trail into uptown from this part of town.

Its abandoned about a block away, there were plans for the Red Line to run through the property one day. Hopefully that gets re-realized as Light Rail. 

[videtur quam contuor]

Abandoned? Are you sure? Rail companies rarely surrender property voluntarily. Unused, long vacant, dead end, sure.

[orulz]

Unused - yes. Abandoned - no.

[Guest]

26 minutes ago, tarhoosier said:

Abandoned? Are you sure? Rail companies rarely surrender property voluntarily. Unused, long vacant, dead end, sure.

Sorry, I mispoke. The tracks that go through this complex stop just about 1/2 a mile short of connecting to ADM. Probably wouldn't be that hard to reconnect. They do also connect to the big Yard on N. Tryon 

Edited April 4, 2017 by Guest

[kermit]

^ Yeah, NS stopped maintaining the tracks from (roughly) McGee lumber down to the CSX tracks. Despite pulling up some rail around the CSX tracks, they certainly did not abandon the right of way. They also _will not_ abandon the ROW any time soon (despite the disuse) since the tracks are the end of the only North-South connection that Norfolk Southern owns through NC (they just lease their primary tracks through the state)

[orulz]

They might consider selling it for a reasonable sum south of Atando, like how they sold the Blue Line ROW between Woodlawn and 11th to Charlotte in 1998.

[InSouthPark]

Is it just me, or does anyone else envision this Nutty Professor scene every time I see "Hercules"?  

[KJHburg]

Camp North End is having a pop market in June. http://vintage-charlotte.com/pop-up-markets/vendor-faq/

[papadog]

This is a similar adaptation planned in Denver, scroll down page for some cool ideas for Hercules.

Plus Denver Infill Blog has been a favorite of mine for 10 years

http://denverinfill.com/blog/2017/04/new-project-denver-rock-drill.html

[KJHburg]

Camp NorthEnd scores its 3rd tenant Hygge coworking space taking 10,000 sq ft. This place is becoming alive quickly. http://www.charlottefive.com/hygge-camp-north-end/  and more press here https://www.charlotteagenda.com/88298/developers-camp-north-end-smart-will-make-ton-money/

And the Business Journal has a front page story on Camp NorthEnd all major business media having articles on the same day? Great PR job ATCO Properties but it is a game changing development for sure. 

Edited April 21, 2017 by KJHburg

[CLT704]

Okay, I actually learned what 'CAMP' actually means, and I like the name now- better than sounding like a summer camp. Nice nod to history too, being the Charlotte Army Missile Plant

Edited April 25, 2017 by CLT704

[SgtCampsalot]

And here I'd been hoping they'd call it Hercules Park. A strong name if ever there was one.

Edited April 25, 2017 by SgtCampsalot