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45 minutes ago, KJHburg said:

Older warehouses don't have the ceiling height needed for modern efficient distribution. Older warehouses have 20-24 foot ceiling heights vs 30-36 feet in the new buildings. Plus where you would you put a 1 million sq ft building within the city limits of Charlotte? Not many choices. Like it or not this part along I-85 in Cabarrus county will be developed while the county discourages such development in the eastern part and northern areas of the county around Mt Pleasant. Cabarrus has encouraged growth in this 85 corridor as it is the most accessible. I would say accessibility to NC and SC markets from this site along with a new build to suit building was primary reasons for this site. 

Right, I'm wondering, as Windsurfer said, why they didn't build a NEW building near the airport (where they are building tons of new warehouse space and contains their Concord facility) or in the International Business Park (which seems to have plenty of land left to develop). I'm sure there must be some reason, just can't figure it out.

49 minutes ago, Windsurfer said:

but we're going to have to foot the bill for widening 73 and tributary roads.

 

The long range plan is to widen 73 anyway. I want this sooner rather than later, so this might be one reason I'm happy they chose this site.

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What do you do the other 9?   (sorry...)

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Today's CBJ - "CBJ Morning Buzz: Renderings released in latest downtown revamp for Charlotte suburbs" by Jen Wilson Excerpt:  "Another one of Charlotte's suburbs is getting a downtown refresh. Th

KJHburg
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Okay not a town or ring city but huge farms are located very close to Charlotte like this one off Hwy 200 in northern Union County.   Driving down NC 200 I felt like I was in Iowa with huge farms with

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Not sure why they chose the exact spot but there are no 1 million sq ft building sites left by the Concord Airport.Tthose buildings are smaller save for one which is Concord Airport Park West was going to have.  They leased the first 100K of 300K building to Classic Graphics. This building was expandable to 1 Million sq ft so I am sure they tried  to get Amazon to lease it  as Silverman Group is  Amazon's landlord in one of their buildings across the street. For whatever reason it did not work out so they looked elsewhere but Beacon Partners warehouse park has no 1 million sq ft building site. That is a 4 building warehouse park but I think the biggest warehouse there is 309K sq ft or so. 

Yes Hwy 73 has long been on the plans to be widened between 85 and 77 and it much needed. 

In terms of the land this new Amazon warehouse is going on according to the map half of it was zoned industrial anyway but they rezoned the other half that is partially in the watershed. I am sure they will be all kinds of detention ponds and drainage controls as I  think that was a condition of zoning. 

Here is the article about the rezoning and it talks about the watershed issues

http://www.independenttribune.com/news/controversial-rezoning-to-be-considered-tonight/article_20716df0-b581-11e6-afeb-3ff5d021edae.html

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In terms of the land this new Amazon warehouse is going on according to the map half of it was zoned industrial anyway but they rezoned the other half that is partially in the watershed. I am sure they will be all kinds of detention ponds and drainage controls as I  think that was a condition of zoning. 

Here is the article about the rezoning and it talks about the watershed issues

http://www.independenttribune.com/news/controversial-rezoning-to-be-considered-tonight/article_20716df0-b581-11e6-afeb-3ff5d021edae.html

Good article. Thanks. The comments by readers at the end are very clear and well-reasoned. Nobody, except a few councilmen, were for this. It required changing the boundary for the watershed. Like I said before, in another life this would be challenged by The DNR or even EPA. It's absurd.  All for the sake of "jobs". Jobs won't mean squat when all the land is gobbled up and water contaminated. 

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KJHburg Ecumenopolis

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Downtown Matthews easy to get photos from a moving vehicle as you going so slow on Trade St.   They do need to work with the state and figuring out  a solution to widening John St south then past 485.  The traffic will choke the town.    If you have not been to Renfrow Hardware in downtown Matthews you are missing a gem. Lots of retail and restaurants in downtown Matthews.   PS Sorry the person in the 2nd photo in the car maybe picking their nose. 

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This is interesting. Davidson one of the wealthiest and educated towns in our region is worried that a Hyatt branded hotel might bring in human trafficking into their town?  http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/biz-columns-blogs/development/article172648876.html?itx[idio]=6199977&ito=792&itq=10cd7fc6-5e1b-4b8b-b6bf-bddc38ef8594

I will leave it right there. 

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On ‎9‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 10:51 AM, KJHburg said:

This is interesting. Davidson one of the wealthiest and educated towns in our region is worried that a Hyatt branded hotel might bring in human trafficking into their town?  http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/biz-columns-blogs/development/article172648876.html?itx[idio]=6199977&ito=792&itq=10cd7fc6-5e1b-4b8b-b6bf-bddc38ef8594

I will leave it right there. 

Filed away with "sidewalks bring the riff raff"

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On 7/20/2017 at 9:32 PM, tozmervo said:

It's also the first job force that will be obliterated by self-driving technology. I think 20-somethings planning on a career in trucking are making a terrible mistake.

Self-driving is a cool innovation but a lot of truck drivers think of it as a threat to their jobs. With self-driving, the truck parts are being controlled by a driver remotely.

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3 hours ago, caterpillar2 said:

We should appreciate this photo. In the future, the NAACP may demand that cotton no longer be grown.  

Good job on getting banned from the site. I've only had to ban a handful of users from the site since I started it (outside of obvious spammers), yet you somehow managed to join such ranks.

This site is welcoming to users of all races, religions, views, etc. This site does NOT put up with such racist remarks. Goodbye.

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Cotton field almost ready for harvest in Cabarrus County only about 20 miles from uptown Charlotte in southern Cabarrus. 

I grew up in a cotton-rich area of rural Tennessee. By late October, it was like snowfall the fields were so white. 

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Out in the hinterlands today went by Apple's huge campus in Maiden.   Here is a small building part of Apple's mega huge data center in Catawba county.  Their property holdings are around 700 acres now and growing and many acres of solar arrays easily seen from US 321.  However the main buildings are much harder to see without entry into the secure complex. Here is a new small building near the entrance.  If you have an I-Phone the I-Cloud is physically here about 40 miles NW of uptown. 

http://www.catawbaedc.org/news/new-apple-investment-in-catawba-county-could-eventually-push-spending-there-to-5b

Best seen on Google maps  

 

http://www.catawbaedc.org/news/new-apple-investment-in-catawba-county-could-eventually-push-spending-there-to-5b

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On 10/15/2017 at 5:10 PM, Neo said:

Good job on getting banned from the site. I've only had to ban a handful of users from the site since I started it (outside of obvious spammers), yet you somehow managed to join such ranks.

This site is welcoming to users of all races, religions, views, etc. This site does NOT put up with such racist remarks. Goodbye.

Thank you.

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