Uptown Cabaret will close after July 1. The strip clubās prominent building will be torn down to make way for a transformative two-tower development called Queensbridge Collective, between South End and Uptown. (Observer)
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Another Chick-fil-A coming in where the old Hardees was in U City.
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Are those corporate stores? Would be pretty mad if I were a franchisee.
All Chickfillaās are owned by the company, they have an intense operator training program that decides who get to run the stores and make the money.
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Correct. Most people donāt know about that though.
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Wish they would make it a two story Chick-Fil-A. 
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The athletic department will now have choices as to which Chick-Fil-A they order lunch.
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Love that facility. Sometime I wonder what could have been if UNC Charlotte inheritted that area from central high instead of CPCC. It would feel alot more like Georgia Tech for sure.
clt says that is an interesting discussion
how many students would we have, 15k?
play mbb at the hornets gym?
have a med school?
no belk tower?
IMO, if we had been able to stay in that location, we would have been far more integrated into the city and the entire pattern of development in the city would be different. Elizabeth Ave and Plaza Midwood would have both been walkable college districts. The neighborhoods of Elizabeth, Cotswold, and Plaza would be filled with student housing rentals, which also probably would have created a robust greek life environment.
We would have a med school or a med school partnership.
The city leaders wouldnāt ignore us.
We would have had football decades sooner due to having a football stadium on campus
Memorial stadium wouldnāt have fallen into disrepair and been replaced.
The city and the school simply would have been a completely different place, in a better way.
Hindsight of course is 20/20, but moving to the fringes of the city was a colossal error. But you do what you have to do when you donāt have a home and someone donates land for you to have one.
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Eh, I dunno NN. Something about being in the middle of a big city kinda turns me off about a school. I get your points and theyāre valid but when I was visiting schools with my kids I much preferred the Auburns and Clemson of the world more than a school like UT.
Apples to Oranges I suppose but I like where the school is basically the town
The city has grown out to the University.
Delayed things by a few decades, but itās time now.
I think about this scenario a lot.
I think it would have hurt us for a long time.
Lots of people would not want to send their kids to the big scary city (Iām not kidding. I live in concord and worked at the hospital in concord for quite a while and I met MANY people who would NOT go to Charlotte. Period).
Nowadays with the growth downtown, transit and changing attitudes it would be a plus.
But I bet it would have slowed our growth big time.
The biggest issue we have right now is just not having a Franklin St. like situation.
If we could get the state to reroute 49 a few blocks east and turn the entire area between the current 49 and the rerouted 49 into a āuniversity city 2ā development zone, then we would really have something.
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And anything that could be done to root out crime in the area.
The single home development thatās right behind campus should be one of the most desirable neighborhoods in the city. Walking distance to the U and the light rail line.
But itās not.
Why??
Perhaps, but maybe the university being there would have prompted the city to invest money into downtown sooner.
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They were still building that Centene site the last time I went by there - couple of months ago. That is a huge site to sit empty.
All of this stuff is multifamily. I donāt think UC will ever become a SF neighborhood.
Speaking of construction, what is the NODA area like? Looks like some nice condos being built there. Iām tempted to sell out here, buy there and retire. Iām tornā¦