Can almost guarantee the 10,00 square feet of non-residential space on the ground floor will be a leasing office, resident lounge, and gym.
Developers always say shit like that to get city council members excited, but then they just end up defaulting back to the cheapest option because our zoning laws are lax and they consider the leasing office to be retail.
Still, it could improve pedestrian activity in the university area though, so it’s not a bad thing. I just hope we don’t see a lot of huge, bland apartment buildings thrown up in UCity like we saw in South End that didn’t add much to the streetscape. So many of those apartments in SouthEnd and in Plaza Midwood have no ground floor retail components. I would be surprised if UCity gets better treatment than the inner city neighborhoods do.
Anything’s better than the auto mall and the self storage they’re building in that area.
Renderings for the apartments along the light rail line:
Site plan for apartments on 49 at 49/Suther:
Renderings for new apartments at 49/Suther:
clt visited campus in the last week and it looks great. Ucity needs some litter pick up though.
The apartments on the Highway 49 side of campus will help the appearance and atmosphere on that side of the campus.
The opening of the light rail will bring 100s, 1,000s of Panther fans to the parking lots on Sunday. Fans from the Triad and the Triangle will park there and ride the light rail to tailgate parties near the stadium. It might make sense to have someone handing out fliers about 49er football and basketball games.
If people tailgate in the lots near the University, maybe some of the coaches could wander around and surprise fans.
[quote=“frequentvisitor, post:6, topic:30431”]The apartments on the Highway 49 side of campus will help the appearance and atmosphere on that side of the campus.
The opening of the light rail will bring 100s, 1,000s of Panther fans to the parking lots on Sunday. Fans from the Triad and the Triangle will park there and ride the light rail to tailgate parties near the stadium. It might make sense to have someone handing out fliers about 49er football and basketball games.
If people tailgate in the lots near the University, maybe some of the coaches could wander around and surprise fans.[/quote]
clt knows the best former coach to hand out handbills.
Saw NN mention in the SB about the wasted opportunity about lack of retail on ground floor for these apts and Circle. That’s probably due to the neighborhood fighting the apts being built and when they lost that fight, they succesfully were able to limit the number of floors constructed. That reduces the developer’s options, I imagine. Neighborhood probably would’ve fought retail, too, all the extra traffic.
[quote=“emf, post:8, topic:30431”]Saw NN mention in the SB about the wasted opportunity about lack of retail on ground floor for these apts and Circle. That’s probably due to the neighborhood fighting the apts being built and when they lost that fight, they succesfully were able to limit the number of floors constructed. That reduces the developer’s options, I imagine. Neighborhood probably would’ve fought retail, too, all the extra traffic.[/quote]Ah didn’t know that. I was really hoping that project would have been like Circle in SouthEnd. It only had retail spots on the corners rather than the entire ground level and they don’t really generate tons of traffic.
Surprised they actually won a battle though. The city usually doesn’t give a fuck unless you are Dilworth, Myers Park, Elizabeth, or Ballantyne. Everyone else usually just has to bend over and hope for lube.