The Bad News Report

[elrodvt]

If we had a decent weekly this could be good news. Do we?

[Yeahdoug]

McCarthy Tire in uptown suddenly close a couple of days ago. Rumor is some developer scooped up the property. Any ideas there? 

[CarolinaDaydreamin]

3 hours ago, Yeahdoug said:

McCarthy Tire in uptown suddenly close a couple of days ago. Rumor is some developer scooped up the property. Any ideas there? 

That building would be a really cool music venue.

 

[Jasons0013]

6 hours ago, Yeahdoug said:

McCarthy Tire in uptown suddenly close a couple of days ago. Rumor is some developer scooped up the property. Any ideas there? 

Saw a crew taking down the awnings earlier.

[Yeahdoug]

Hopefully it’s a brewery. 
 

I kid, I kid 

[kermit]

file under "inevitable":

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‘Difficult but... necessary.’ Belk confirms dozens of layoffs at corporate office

Charlotte-based Belk has cut about 80 corporate positions, a company spokeswoman confirmed Monday.

[....]

The company had about 1,200 employees in 2018 at its Tyvola Road headquarters in Charlotte, down 200 people from two years prior, the Observer previously reported.

 

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/biz-columns-blogs/whats-in-store/article240362496.html

 

 

Edited February 17, 2020 by kermit

[urbanlover568]

1 hour ago, kermit said:

file under "inevitable":

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/biz-columns-blogs/whats-in-store/article240362496.html

 

 

Nordstrom up here here laid off a couple hundred folks in their Corporate.  Don't know if it made news of not. Retail is automating mundane repetitive tasks and investing heavily in IT.  With this investment comes higher salaried jobs. 

[Crucial_Infra]

12 minutes ago, urbanlover568 said:

Nordstrom up here here laid off a couple hundred folks in their Corporate

Where is “up here”?

[urbanlover568]

5 minutes ago, Crucial_Infra said:

Where is “up here”?

Seattle. 

[rancenc]

Another retailer files for bankruptcy amid nationwide and also local closings.

https://www.bizjournals.com/triad/news/2020/02/18/pier-1-already-closing-one-of-four-triad-stores.html?iana=hpmvp_triad_news_headline

[Hushpuppy321]

This is the last CIAA Week in Charlotte for awhile.  Very much a bad loss for the City   

Maybe this is needed for the City/County to get its act together - Hopefully the tournament will be back after 3 years in Baltimore.  The CIAA guests in town would have multiple new towers all over Center City to greet them that they don’t see now as well as Lightrail Vehicles running up and down in the streets.

Wonder how this loss will impact Charlotte Tourism numbers for the ‘21 - ‘23 years?

Edited March 2, 2020 by Hushpuppy321

[navigator319]

It will only be a blip when looking at Feb numbers in coming years.   Also hard pressed to call this bad news as any event that needs metal detectors installed at all entrances of Epicenter the city is better off without in the long run.

[Durhamite]

1 hour ago, navigator319 said:

It will only be a blip when looking at Feb numbers in coming years.   Also hard pressed to call this bad news as any event that needs metal detectors installed at all entrances of Epicenter the city is better off without in the long run.

You can’t be serious. This is akin to the anti-rail crowd  who claim LRT had no impact on growth in Southend.  You can’t have it both ways.  It is so evident how much of White world is oblivious to Black world..,even a bunch of so-called liberals..,I am coming to find out, I think they are the worse if the world view doesn’t suit their myopic box.

[rancenc]

Plant closure announced in the Rowan County town of Landis.

https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2020/02/28/gastonia-based-yarn-manufacturer-parkdale-closing.html?iana=hpmvp_clt_news_headline

 

[Hushpuppy321]

FYI All - Nashville suffered terrible Tornadoes overnight, 8 dead, many injured, some missing, 40 Structures Collapsed.  Pray for those impacted by the storm.  Thank God for His mercy - Also, they’ve started a Page for Storm related damage, comments, info.

Urban Search and Rescue Teams in Nashville have their hands full.

[smeagolsfree]

Hey guys,

Reporting here from Nashville.

As far as we know, most of our people are OK, but there are a few we have not heard from in East Nashville yet.

Our historic areas of East Nashville and Germantown have been hit very hard as was the John C Tune municipal airport west of town,  along with the Donelson and Hermitage areas.

A number of older historic structures have been destroyed along with a number of newly built large apartment buildings being heavily damaged. I 40 closed due to multiple overturned trucks, not to mention 19 deaths so far in a 2 county stretch from Nashville West.

We have a thred devoted to the tornado if you guys want to keep up.

Thanks for your prayers and concerns.

[tozmervo]

4 hours ago, smeagolsfree said:

Hey guys,

Reporting here from Nashville.

As far as we know, most of our people are OK, but there are a few we have not heard from in East Nashville yet.

Our historic areas of East Nashville and Germantown have been hit very hard as was the John C Tune municipal airport west of town,  along with the Donelson and Hermitage areas.

A number of older historic structures have been destroyed along with a number of newly built large apartment buildings being heavily damaged. I 40 closed due to multiple overturned trucks, not to mention 19 deaths so far in a 2 county stretch from Nashville West.

We have a thred devoted to the tornado if you guys want to keepup.

Thanks for your prayers and concerns.

I spent much of my morning texting with friends and family in the metro checking on them. I still lived in the area during the 98 tornado, and this sounds much worse. Sufficed to say, I don't miss living in the tornado alley that is middle TN. Thinking of everyone back there. 

[urbanlover568]

United slashing US, international flights, offering voluntary leave amid coronavirus crisis

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2020/03/04/coronavirus-flight-fallout-united-cutting-international-us-service/4954094002/

 

Traveled through Dulles In DC yesterday and it was a ghost-town in many parts. 

[elrodvt]

Might be a great time to redeem miles to Italy.

[urbanlover568]

4 minutes ago, elrodvt said:

Might be a great time to redeem miles to Italy.

Travel at your own risk.

[kermit]

25 minutes ago, urbanlover568 said:

Travel at your own risk.

Far better to get Corona while staying in a deeply discounted 5 star hotel room in Venice than while in the Olive Garden at Northlake.

Edited March 5, 2020 by kermit

[urbanlover568]

1 minute ago, kermit said:

If you are gonna get Corona you may as well get it in a deeply discounted 5 star hotel room in Venice. 

Again, travel at your own risk. Nobody's stopping you from going. I personally, find it selfish to go there and potentially bring it back to the United States and potentially infect others. 

[kermit]

8 minutes ago, urbanlover568 said:

Again, travel at your own risk. Nobody's stopping you from going. I personally, find it selfish to go there and potentially bring it back to the United States and potentially infect others. 

I would totally agree with you about the selfishness if we were testing people for the virus here. At the moment we have absolutely no idea how many carriers are here (and the federal government wants to keep us in the dark about that).

[urbanlover568]

Just now, kermit said:

I would totally agree with you about the selfishness if we were testing people for the virus here. At the moment we have absolutely no idea how many carriers are here (and the federal government wants to keep us in the dark about that).

I'm not entertaining conspiracy theories and rely on the experts at the CDC. 

[elrodvt]

It was a joke... 

I will say I've been redeeming miles on 9-11 for years. Works great.