First Ward Urban Village / North Tryon Vision Plan

[DonkeyKong]

40 minutes ago, QCxpat said:

Today 1:05 p.m.   

"If we don't care about our past we can't have very much hope for our future."  Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis at Grand Central Terminal 1975

[DMann]

I was standing on 7th between College & Tryon watching when you took that pic.

[XRZ.ME]

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[JRCLT]

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This sucks. I wish they would build the one they plan to this height or higher…that would make this at least somewhat worth it

[Matthew.Brendan]

That is the real salt in the wound, we end up with some stick apartments half the height. Truly boggles the mind.

[RANYC]

18 minutes ago, Matthew.Brendan said:

That is the real salt in the wound, we end up with some stick apartments half the height. Truly boggles the mind.

Small consolation, but when you walk near hall house now, most of the block it’s on is surface parking lot.  Once the new structure is built, albeit half the height, no more surface lot will exist on that block. 

[videtur quam contuor]

Before there were cranes and concrete pumpers how did they deliver mix for the upper floors such as this building?

[videtur quam contuor]

M guess it was winches and large buckets similar to what cranes deliver today if pumping is not used.

(deconstruction questions)

Edited November 4, 2022 by tarhoosier

[15895]

So backwards. What a backwards thing to do.

“There are nearly three-thousand homeless children in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system.

This time last year, many of those kids had a place to stay when the weather was cold. Here, at Hall House.

This year, though...that's not an option.

…

It was home for more than 60 families, but after just a few months, of those families went packing, and some we understand have drifted back into reality of being homeless again.

A number of agencies did step up to the plate including the Salvation Army's women's shelter.

We found one place in Dilworth that also opened its doors to the displaced.

…

They're out in the cold. When the temperature goes down you wonder how the kids are keeping warm. It's kind of scary. "

The need is great and especially when you see an empty building like this that was once full of life.

”https://www.wbtv.com/story/11785408/what-happened-to-charlottes-hall-house/?outputType=amp

I’ve said many times. Uptown Charlotte needs real Charlotteans to be a lively place. Wealthy people, but also normal people. Families. Lower income. Middle income. It’s just such a shame this low-income & needs based housing (that had funding from local charities that not only provided funding but resources, etc) for those residents. This is one of the few areas of low income housing where a vehicle isn’t necessary in Charlotte. 

Of all the empty places in uptown. Literal grass fields. This low-income housing has to be torn down? Such crap. 

 

[CLT2014]

Is this what the Affordable Housing bonds on the ballot are going towards???

[Reverie39]

4 hours ago, RANYC said:

Small consolation, but when you walk near hall house now, most of the block it’s on is surface parking lot.  Once the new structure is built, albeit half the height, no more surface lot will exist on that block. 

This is a nice silver lining. The question remains: why can't we have just developed that parking area while keeping the existing structure in place? But any replacement of surface parking is at least a partial win in my book.

[JRCLT]

Small consolation, but when you walk near hall house now, most of the block it’s on is surface parking lot.  Once the new structure is built, albeit half the height, no more surface lot will exist on that block. 

I know about the stick built apartment but theres a building that is shown in the rendering that would “pay homage” to the Barringer — if that still even is the plan… that building seems not even half the height of the Barringer. Could have been taller.

[SydneyCarton]

Nov 6th

I hope that these buildings are gone in a few months.

Edited November 6, 2022 by SydneyCarton

[DMann]

Hmmmmm, saw Daniel Levine and Michael Smith having coffee at the Market at the 7th Street Station!  Wonder what they were discussing?????

[Madison Parkitect]

22 minutes ago, DMann said:

Hmmmmm, saw Daniel Levine and Michael Smith having coffee at the Market at the 7th Street Station!  Wonder what they were discussing?????

How to keep getting money from people without doing much?

[Reverie39]

3 hours ago, DMann said:

Hmmmmm, saw Daniel Levine and Michael Smith having coffee at the Market at the 7th Street Station!  Wonder what they were discussing?????

Probably discussing their confusion that the coffee arrived in timely fashion after they ordered it.

[Blue_Devil]

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[QCxpat]

Today 11:58 a.m.  -  Charlotte Hall House / formerly The Barringer Hotel

Edited November 17, 2022 by QCxpat

[KJHburg]

Don't even get me started.....

also when is the Library coming down as vagrants have taken over the backside of it.  It would be nice to have a sign somewhere showing what is to come.  If I was a tourist I would not know anything other than a huge abandoned building.  

Thank goodness Lennar Multifamily delivered the Ellis and that hotel is being built there.

I will say it again Mr Levine could be hero if he used the mass vacant land for a community garden while we wait for development.  Imagine people growing food on this land and feeding the homeless and providing a place in these high inflation times for uptown residents to grow their own food.   No other city around in NC has this much open vacant land in their downtown.  

[Desert Power]

Could grow so much kale there.

[15895]

In my fantasy land, Bank of America, Truist or Duke Energy would contribute funds to bring hundreds/thousands of affordable *and* low income housing to Levine Land. Of course in coordination with the city. 

I think that would be best for uptown, breathe life into the neighborhood, help support retail and transit being it has good transit access.

Though that would require local officials & agencies to find ways to bring more low-income housing uptown .

[XRZ.ME]

lots of road closure near this place


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[RANYC]

3 hours ago, XRZ.ME said:

lots of road closure near this place


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Here’s a new math to see hall house in perhaps a positive light.  The hall house was 12 stories and took up, say, a third of the block with the rest of the block as just surface blacktop.  

Hall house coming down, surface blacktop is being dug up, and the hall house 1/3 plus the other 2/3 will soon become a 6-story vertical structure across the whole.

So this is a net increase in vertical coverage for uptown.

 

Edited November 29, 2022 by RANYC

[Matthew.Brendan]

 

 

A real shame it has to come down, but understandable when land is so scarce along N. Tryon

 

[CharlotteWkndBuzz]

Man, looking at that overhead view…really wish wake med would have built here. Would be the skyscraper version of their innovation quarter in Winston. Would have been game changing for first ward and sparked more retail and other towers around the park. Most importantly, would have created a ton of foot traffic and that is exactly what that area needs. 

Edited November 30, 2022 by CharlotteWkndBuzz