500 West Trade (14 story apartments on site of former Polk Building)

[Guest]

15 hours ago, Nick2 said:

Anyone know of they're planning on saving any of the facade? It would be great if they could and use it as a design element somewhere on whatever project ends up here.

I know they want to find some way to incorporate some sort of element of the building. At least thats what I was told a year or so ago.

[Matthew.Brendan]

All talk. “Unfortunately at the end of the day it just was not economically feasible”

I’ll make a friendly wager that not a speck of dust of this remains when all is said and done. 

The indifference is apparent. 

[orulz]

I am sure that, for example, Asheville would have found a way to preserve this building. They've managed to preserve stuff way further gone than this (Foundry Inn:

became

). By "not economically feasible" they just mean "less profitable".

[KJHburg]

No way this building would have come down in Savannah, Charleston, San Antonio, even Asheville as noted above. 

[Jasons0013]

Well there you go.

[Matthew.Brendan]

Literally in the dumpster.

[KJHburg]

RIP and I think a plan could have saved this building as it would have been in many other places.  from last week.  The architectural details on this building will not be repeated in Charlotte anytime soon.  

[Miesian Corners]

I might have to go up there and grab some granite slabs from the base. It's a shame all that will go in a landfill when it could go into my new patio.

When the city did construction on Graham St in the 90s, they ripped out the original granite curbs. I drove over with the pickup truck and asked one of the workmen if I could take four pieces. He scooped them up with the backhoe and placed them in the bed. They went on to become garden steps and bench in the yard of my former house.

[Jasons0013]

Coming down as we speak.

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[Jasons0013]

One more. Bad quality

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[TheOneRJ]

So what is being built here exactly? 

[15895]

Sad  

[Dale]

18 minutes ago, TheOneRJ said:

So what is being built here exactly? 

Nothing, they’re going to use that stretch of Trade as a setting for post-apocalyptic films.

[Guest]

33 minutes ago, TheOneRJ said:

So what is being built here exactly? 

15 floor apartment building :-(

[Matthew.Brendan]

I would love to recaim some of the wood from the interior. I believe I read here on UP that it was originally a car showroom and so the floors were built extra stout. 

[15895]

1 hour ago, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:

15 floor apartment building :-(

I wish they could pay homage to the fact a historical brick building was here. Graham condos (although not the best looking) or something like SouthEnd station or whatever the twin tower SouthEnd office tower is called would’ve been a nice nod.  I know it won’t based on latest renderings but. 

[CarolinaDaydreamin]

Eternal shame on them. 

[KJHburg]

8 hours ago, Miesian Corners said:

I might have to go up there and grab some granite slabs from the base. It's a shame all that will go in a landfill when it could go into my new patio.

When the city did construction on Graham St in the 90s, they ripped out the original granite curbs. I drove over with the pickup truck and asked one of the workmen if I could take four pieces. He scooped them up with the backhoe and placed them in the bed. They went on to become garden steps and bench in the yard of my former house.

Grab me one too and you will have a free lunch at Superica or dozen of the world famous Krispy Kreme doughnuts 

[Guest]

I would love to recaim some of the wood from the interior. I believe I read here on UP that it was originally a car showroom and so the floors were built extra stout. 

Buick Dealership.


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[King of the Queen City]

Could they really not at least save the facade? How does this happen with so many surface lots around? According to the attached Observer article this was one of only seven standing pre-Depression structures.

Save the Polk Building’s historic façade; few remain

[King of the Queen City]

In another Observer article, Northwood Ravin gives a somewhat unsatisfying answer to my question: 

Northwood Ravin won’t be preserving the Polk Building as part of the new development. Ravin said the building is in bad shape, with the facade crumbling away and major interior damage. Preserving and reusing it would be too costly to justify, Ravin said.

“It’s not something I take lightly,” Ravin said of saving the Polk Building, “But it’s easier to say, harder to do.”

Newest addition to the Charlotte skyline is coming soon in uptown

[Jasons0013]

 

 

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[Jasons0013]

Try this again.

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[JacksonH]

So what exactly from that facade are they supposedly preserving?  All I see in that image is destruction.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, JacksonH said:

So what exactly from that facade are they supposedly preserving?  All I see in that image is destruction.

None of it...