Misc. Uptown Projects/News

[DMann]

Home of the 700 club!

[j-man]

What will happen to end old police station? Hopefully that parcel can be redeveloped soon though I know Covid-19 is canceling  and slowing things down. 

Edited July 12, 2020 by j-man

[Hushpuppy321]

Good looking Police Building!  Much better the old 3rd Precinct Bldg in SW Yonkers.....

Edited July 11, 2020 by Hushpuppy321

[KJHburg]

Looks like 101 Independence Center is getting a mini food hall and that should do good when everyone goes back to the office.

Check it out

http://www.thriftcres.com/wp-content/uploads/101-N-Tryon-Marketing-Flyer.pdf

[navigator319]

Looks like they started this week. jedunn set up shop this week and began demolition.

[CLTProductions]

3 hours ago, KJHburg said:

Looks like 101 Independence Center is getting a mini food hall and that should do good when everyone goes back to the office.

Check it out

http://www.thriftcres.com/wp-content/uploads/101-N-Tryon-Marketing-Flyer.pdf

3 hours ago, KJHburg said:

Looks like 101 Independence Center is getting a mini food hall and that should do good when everyone goes back to the office.

Check it out

http://www.thriftcres.com/wp-content/uploads/101-N-Tryon-Marketing-Flyer.pdf

This is just for marketing purposes. It’s likely this won’t shake out this way. 

[Vitamin_N]

The Levine Museum of the New South is thinking about moving out. From today's Charlotte Ledger:

The Levine Museum of the New South is considering options to transform its physical presence in Charlotte, which could include selling its current location in uptown.

In an interview this week with The Ledger, museum president and CEO Kathryn Hill said that “everything’s on the table” as the museum’s leadership and its board explore many different possibilities for the museum’s future — including the fate of its existing building on 7th and College streets, which it owns and has occupied since 1996.

“For the last couple of years, we’ve been exploring a lot of options around renovation or relocation because the facility was never built as a museum, because it is inflexible and aging, and because this is a time of real change in museums in general and that’s forced a change in thinking about all of our needs,” she said. “Museums all over the country understand that adaptive change, real change has never been so necessary.”

She said the museum has made no decisions but has been having many conversations about how to position the museum for the future.

An eight-page internal planning document obtained by The Ledger offers some specifics about a possible future schedule for the museum. The document, dated in July, suggests that the museum’s building be prepared for sale in the remainder of 2020 by accomplishing tasks such as communicating with donors and the media, “deinstallation plans developed” and “collections decisions made.” “Due diligence” is listed as beginning this month. It says that the sale would close in the first half of 2021 and that a new campaign for “Levine Museum 2.0” would start in mid-2024, when there would be “decisions made about new facility.”

Asked about the timeline, Hill said it was “a hypothetical” and said that the museum’s land and building aren’t on the market.

Asked whether the building is under contract, Hill replied: “The building is not on the market, and we are exploring options.”

[Madison Parkitect]

Levine is a great little museum but could benefit from an improved space, especially if they're able to sell that (probably) valuable lot that they apparently own. I'd love to see them stay in uptown somewhere though, I think that's the right place for it.

[Guest]

29 minutes ago, Madison Parkitect said:

Levine is a great little museum but could benefit from an improved space, especially if they're able to sell that (probably) valuable lot that they apparently own. I'd love to see them stay in uptown somewhere though, I think that's the right place for it.

I'd love for them to end up in South End, and add a cultural amenity to the neighborhood

[Cadi40]

The Levine Museum of the New South(End)

[DMann]

How about the base of the Duke Power Tower where that athletic club used to be?

[Guest]

1 hour ago, DMann said:

How about the base of the Duke Power Tower where that athletic club used to be?

way too small. They currently have 40k sq feet.

[j-man]

I would love it if they could put it in the Brooklyn Village development where the planned building that looks like a proposed museum is supposed to go or near 1st Ward park near UNCC. I say those locations because they are dead to those types of things and Uptown needs to spread out it’s attractions instead of everything being on like the two main streets. 

[Desert Power]

My vote would be Gateway station for this.  At the nexus of three transit methods, that is the future of the South.

[captainjack]

Very pleased with this. Let’s keep correcting the ground level.

https://www.crescentcommunities.com/media/press/crescent-communities-nuveen-real-estate-announce-renovation-plans-for-newly-named-one-independence-center/
 

Edited August 17, 2020 by captainjack

[Spartan]

Gotta say, I was a bit disappointed when they figured out removing the atrium wasn't really a viable option, but I like the Tryon Street side a lot.

[Guest]

Gotta say, I was a bit disappointed when they figured out removing the atrium wasn't really a viable option, but I like the Tryon Street side a lot.

Agreed and internally there will be improvements to give it a sense of place, inside and out.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[ertley]

On 8/11/2020 at 12:01 PM, Madison Parkitect said:

Levine is a great little museum but could benefit from an improved space, especially if they're able to sell that (probably) valuable lot that they apparently own. I'd love to see them stay in uptown somewhere though, I think that's the right place for it.

 

On 8/11/2020 at 12:30 PM, Tyree Ricardo said:

I'd love for them to end up in South End, and add a cultural amenity to the neighborhood

 

On 8/12/2020 at 1:06 AM, j-man said:

I would love it if they could put it in the Brooklyn Village development where the planned building that looks like a proposed museum is supposed to go or near 1st Ward park near UNCC. I say those locations because they are dead to those types of things and Uptown needs to spread out it’s attractions instead of everything being on like the two main streets.

 

On 8/12/2020 at 12:48 PM, Desert Power said:

My vote would be Gateway station for this.  At the nexus of three transit methods, that is the future of the South.

All good suggestions that I would be happy with, any one of them, but my humble suggestion is to incorporate it within the new Library/Spirit Square (re)development. It would actually *improve* its location and really make that block(s) a powerhouse attraction, and the Spirit Square building could serve as a venue for both the Levine Museum as well as the Library, in addition to hopefully functioning as a music and performance venue... (Could Levine even offer its land as a sort of equity swap?)

But I also see the value of putting it either at Gateway or South End, to distribute the cultural wealth of the city.

(But I still dream of a true Mint Museum--about Charlotte's gold mining and minting history--being located within the Gold District, while there's still time (i.e. available land).) 

[CharlotteWkndBuzz]

12 hours ago, Spartan said:

Gotta say, I was a bit disappointed when they figured out removing the atrium wasn't really a viable option, but I like the Tryon Street side a lot.

My thoughts as well, however, I am worried about the other side.  Arguably our most iconic tower, staple of the QC...tallest in the carolinas...BOACC is one of the most pedestrian unfriendly towers in Uptown ironically enough.  No retail, massive lobby, hell even the security guards yell at you when you try and take pictures.  So, besides the Illuminati murals inside, there's no interaction from a pedestrian standpoint.  Will BOA stay like this forever?  Or will they somehow jump onboard with the retail movement?  There's a BOA branch underneath Founders Hall that could be a nice restaurant that faces the plaza.  Ive always thought they could remove the water feature along trade and extend the plaza (holiday ice rank would be awesome there...think Rockefeller vibe).  Observation deck or restaurant on the top levels of BOA would be an awesome attraction.

Bank of America prides itself being a bank for the people, however, their staple tower in Uptown is the exact opposite.  Will that change?

[Hushpuppy321]

For this $25 Million Office Upfit I love what’s proposed over what’s existing.  I attached a photo of what’s there for those who are not too familiar with the current look.  Also - If the economy rebounds in the next 24 months I could imagine the new owners proposing a modest Tower (15/20 stories) over the existing Church street deck at that point.  The existing deck is quite hideous as is though.

[Norm2]

The only way to truly improve the pedestrian experience around BOACC would be by ripping down Founder's Hall and starting from scratch in that part of the block.

[SpiritOf76]

7 hours ago, Hushpuppy321 said:

For this $25 Million Office Upfit I love what’s proposed over what’s existing.  I attached a photo of what’s there for those who are not too familiar with the current look.  Also - If the economy rebounds in the next 24 months I could imagine the new owners proposing a modest Tower (15/20 stories) over the existing Church street deck at that point.  The existing deck is quite hideous as is though.

That deck always reminds me of NES Double Dragon. It just has that look like it belongs in a video game..

[Guest]

10 hours ago, Hushpuppy321 said:

For this $25 Million Office Upfit I love what’s proposed over what’s existing.  I attached a photo of what’s there for those who are not too familiar with the current look.  Also - If the economy rebounds in the next 24 months I could imagine the new owners proposing a modest Tower (15/20 stories) over the existing Church street deck at that point.  The existing deck is quite hideous as is though.

I've seen a 35 floor building drawn for this parking deck space. It was pitched to several of the companies than have come here the past few years since Sumitomo purchased this property. 

[elrodvt]

Downtown is pretty lame and moving culture out of it would be a tragic step in the wrong direction (just as things are starting to look up too).

Love the Founders idea.

[RANYC]

Charlotte needs Public Squares!  Maybe less focus on (and funding for) our traditional ideas of park space, and more funding for public squares as meeting a more  vital social need for our increasingly diverse city.

IMO, Uptown, like many sunbelt cities, appears to be missing a prominent and strategic Public Square.  No, I'm not talking about another pocket park or even public gardens.   

Square = Paved open space in the urban landscape.  Active and meant for gathering and local commerce and protest/advocacy.  Suitable for open markets, concerts, political rallies, and other events that require firm ground. Usually surrounded by community institutions and small shops such as bakeries, meat markets, cheese stores, and clothing stores. Monument, statue or Fountain at the Center.  Public square often becomes a vehicle for political and intellectual voices of the community.  The site of the community conversation and its great debates.

Charlotte is so spread out, conceivably we could have a square in Uptown and mini-squares in communities all over the city seeking identity and originality.  And no, square is not a strip mall whose paved surfaces are for parking.

Support a Public Square Strategy for Charlotte, and in so doing, support the City's Soul and a heritage we can all share.

 

 

Edited August 22, 2020 by RANYC