225 N. Cedar St.

[West Side = Best Side]

Looks like a very tall haunted house. Where else does a haunted house fit none-other than the cemetary. I don't mind it, but I'm not jumping up and down either.

[Andyc545]

You know, I had not thought of the haunted house-cemetery connection but actually like the project a lot better in light of the idea. When "The Cat in the Hat" movie was being filmed, I read that passers-by would stop to ask where the sales center was for these whimsically designed homes. Maybe a fantastical and dramatic environment is what people are looking for.

[tozmervo]

I wish this building, like so many others, knew how to deal with a sloped site. I hate it when they just plop down a flat floorplan and fill in the slop as necessary.

[atlrvr]

I think these will sell well for that reason. Like Encore, it's something different for the city that will attract people, some people that would not have bought into the center core, otherwise.

[atlrvr]

Hmmm...it seems the gothic design is done....replaced me a very "typical" midrise design. It has shrunk to 8 stories.

The architect has also been replaced. Interestingly, the new architect is Housing Studio....no more Miller.

New renderings are on page 4 of this site plan.

Site Plan

Editted to correct link

[Justadude]

And even though it isn't a unique building, it provides a little bit of visual variety to what has heretofore been a very uniform neighborhood.

[Charlotte_native]

Sweet!! Now it looks like everything else and blends in

[rockhilljames]

Yeah, I'm not sure that's any better. Blandy-mcBland.

[DjStedali]

It looks like all they did was chop off the top half which was the interesting and very different part of the project. I think they could have toned down the old rendering a bit to make it less of a wow factor but not to the point of it being like rockhilljames said "Blandy-mcBland"

[Andyc545]

Sad. Finally you get someone brave enough to design something that was at least out of the contrary, whether you liked it or not, and in a flash, someone makes a photocopy of designs that have already been made in Gateway Village. I'll reserve anymore complaints to see a better rendering, but it's certainly not as striking as the original, which is a disappointment in my book.

[uptownliving]

This project goes up for its ReZoning hearing on Monday and the Charlotte Planning Staff are recommending denial. There is a long list of items in the site plan that would need to be corrected before the Planning Staff will support the Rezoning. They are too numurous to list here but you can read the report here.

[uptownliving]

Looks like Planning Staff and the 3rd Ward Neighborhood like the revised plans. They just had the public hearing and no one spoke in oppostion. What you see is what you get.

[DjStedali]

Well that stinks, hopefully they will at least use the same materials to give it the same look that was on the older renderings.

[dubone]

I'm sort of apathetically ambivalent on this. The castle-y design that we started with was very easy to deride and with the WWCBD materials would have looked thoroughly ridiculous in reality. The new one is bland, but this is an also-ran project anyway, and the scale and shape is still the ideal model and fits very well into the Gateway Village context. Then, you lump in the fact that the new design has much more glass in the facade.