Ballantyne

[Boricua]

19 hours ago, Niner National said:

Id support building an enormous bridge to go completely over and around pineville without a stop just to spite them.

What was their reasoning behind lightrail not going into their town?

[CarolinaDaydreamin]

33 minutes ago, Boricua said:

What was their reasoning behind lightrail not going into their town?

An imbecilic Mayor. 

[Niner National]

1 hour ago, Boricua said:

What was their reasoning behind lightrail not going into their town?

Said it would bring crime into their town. Because obviously when people are thieving and killing they wait patiently at the light rail stop for a speedy getaway.

jokes on them though because now Pineville is becoming low income and their retail is dying. 

[videtur quam contuor]

My memory is that Pineville worried that a station in town would bring commuter traffic at rush hour AM and PM and create more traffic issues on a small town with few routing options in case of clogged roads.

[Windsurfer]

23 minutes ago, Niner National said:

Said it would bring crime into their town. Because obviously when people are thieving and killing they wait patiently at the light rail stop for a speedy getaway.

jokes on them though because now Pineville is becoming low income and their retail is dying. 

This is what I heard from a town business leader whose office is near the square.

[KJHburg]

19 minutes ago, tarhoosier said:

My memory is that Pineville worried that a station in town would bring commuter traffic at rush hour AM and PM and create more traffic issues on a small town with few routing options in case of clogged roads.

that is why they did not want the station Hwy 51 towards SC was 2 lane and they knew it would attract a lot of SC commuters through their town.  

Retail dying?  well that is happening everywhere right now due to this forced closures.   LendingTree is still interested in doing something in the old Cone Mill so I would not count on the death of the town yet.    Remember CATS shortened the line on the other end too as there was supposed to be a huge station with lots of parking at the end of the line by  N Tryon and 485.  

[videtur quam contuor]

Quite a while ago, when the Carolina Place development was coming, WalMart wanted to build in the area. Pineville had recently annexed the area either side of 51 in order to control the zone. WalMart was refused an approval and said they would be paying 100,000$ in taxes so why the reluctance. Pineville countered that the property in question was so large and expected so may people that it would require more than 100,000$ in services per year for traffic control, emergency response, 911 response, and all the other necessary services. That opened my eyes to the comparison of tax/service cost in many locations.

[Norm2]

I remember the mayor of Pineville also didn't want the light rail because one of the requirements for it was for the town to start zoning high density around any light rail stations. They felt they would have been forced to do that.

[Desert Power]

10 hours ago, norm21499 said:

I remember the mayor of Pineville also didn't want the light rail because one of the requirements for it was for the town to start zoning high density around any light rail stations. They felt they would have been forced to do that.

Oh, the humanity!

[KJHburg]

down south this morning in Ballantyne a few drive bys of the new office tower topped out and the new apartment tower on Ballantyne Commons Drive.  

[KJHburg]

Panorama Tower with office space and AC by Marriott hotel rising at Ballantyne Village.   Today. 

https://www.walshgroup.com/news/2019/archerwesternbreaksgroundon14storycharlottetowerfeaturinghotelandofficespace.html

Edited May 2, 2020 by KJHburg

[KJHburg]

Crane action on the apartment tower and garage site and office building now is getting glass.  Today #BallantyneRising apart of greater #CharlotteRising.  

and people today were putting the Park in Ballantyne Corporate PARK 

[KJHburg]

Ballantyne reimagined rezoning update includes more affordable housing now with a 2 acre donation to the city.

[KJHburg]

Ballantyne Reimagined rezoning has passed the city council with a vote tonight.

https://charlottenc.gov/planning/Rezoning/RezoningPetitions/2019Petitions/Pages/2019-115.aspx

Maybe the mysterious grocery store on N Community House Rd will be announced soon  ( Wegmans?)

here for a refresher is Ballantyne Reimagined 

http://reimagined.projectballantyne.com/

Edited June 9, 2020 by KJHburg

[joenc]

18 hours ago, KJHburg said:

Ballantyne Reimagined rezoning has passed the city council with a vote tonight.

https://charlottenc.gov/planning/Rezoning/RezoningPetitions/2019Petitions/Pages/2019-115.aspx

Maybe the mysterious grocery store on N Community House Rd will be announced soon  ( Wegmans?)

here for a refresher is Ballantyne Reimagined 

http://reimagined.projectballantyne.com/

The master plan architect has some renderings I haven't seen before on their site:

https://www.sasaki.com/projects/ballantyne-corporate-park-mixed-use-master-plan/

Edited June 9, 2020 by joenc

[SydneyCarton]

https://account.charlotteobserver.com/paywall/stop?resume=243405606

I was never a huge fan of Ballantyne, but this looks really great nonetheless.

[Yo Diaz!]

Not Ballantyne, but there is a new tower Crane up in the last week or so at Atrium Pineville for their next building Expansion.


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[Hushpuppy321]

6 hours ago, Yo Diaz! said:

Not Ballantyne, but there is a new tower Crane up in the last week or so at Atrium Pineville for their next building Expansion.


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The hospital wars continue.  Wasn’t sure whether to ask someone if anyone cares to keep track of the battle between Atrium and Novant.

Atrium expansions in Pineville and building from scratch in Stallings.  Novant building from scratch in Ballantyne by next year.

[SydneyCarton]

15 hours ago, Yo Diaz! said:

Not Ballantyne, but there is a new tower Crane up in the last week or so at Atrium Pineville for their next building Expansion.


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Pineville needs serious redevelopment.  It's pretty close in, and yet, it's largely a wasteland.

[Madison Parkitect]

26 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Pineville needs serious redevelopment.  It's pretty close in, and yet, it's largely a wasteland.

Pineville missed the boat when they decided they didn't want the light rail extension and bet their future on continued car-driven shopping business. Tons of suburbs and companies got caught by surprise with the rise of online shopping and mass transit, and Pineville and all its shopping center business definitely falls into that category. Now they have a chance to try to fix it and redevelop to catch up with current trends, but it might be too late for them; I think it's possible that the big Ballantyne development takes away any chance Pineville has to redevelop in the near future.

[B Randy]

With historic Main Street as an anchor - and being that close in to one of the country's most rapidly growing cities...they'll have a nice little renaissance.    

Will take a while - but they'll get there.  Authenticity factor of that little downtown strip is invaluable.

 

[KJHburg]

Ballantyne Corporate Office Park puts the park in office park.  Decided to walk around there and there were plenty of other people doing the same  and even saw someone spreading a picnic blanket near the Bull statues.    Anyway the new 11 story office building is getting 2 shades of glass greenish  and blue.   The apartment tower is rising and there is some wood frame units around the garage evidently in the backside.   Was not aware of that.    KJ your Ballantyne park walker and walk by photographer even with my bad camera. 

[KJHburg]

The Panorama Tower is really rising and going to be so tall compared to others in the area and I think it is on a hill too. https://businessnc.com/panorama-holdings-developing-14-story-mixed-use-building-in-ballantyne/     Ballantyne Rising! 

[KJHburg]

found the rendering of the apartment tower and it does showing some stick built apartments wrapped around the deck.  

Miscellaneous Ballantyne photos from my walk in the "park".   In the new post Covid 19 world and new Ballantyne Reimagined project this place is going to BOOM again. 

another rendering of the apartment tower and 11 story office building underway.  Front side. 

[SpiritOf76]