Ucity already has a huge number of apartments as a percentage of housing units. This generally leads to greater levels of poverty and crime in an area over time. Apartment dwellers are transient, so as soon as a new place opens and offers better amenities or rent specials, people leave. As apartments age, they take in lower quality renters and everything spirals down over time.
For ucity to be healthy, it needs a mix of people with a vested interest in the community.
I hope to see a large number of $400k + townhomes in the area because it desperately needs an infusion of people with money.
The 3 mile radius demographics of the university are abysmal, which is why the area doesn’t get nice restaurants or much of anything else except fast foot and low end shopping centers.
I’d like UCity to be a place that resembles other college town environments where professors and even retirees would feel comfortable to live. Building apartments complex after apartment complex on every bit of land available doesn’t build a sense of community and just attracts transient people or high crime groups.
A singular non-chain restaurant would be nice😂 hopefully this little town square they’re planning by the food lion comes to fruition
Fujiyama at Latta has closed for you folks that do or have worked uptown. That sucks.
See that the Fugiyama owners are part of the new Monarch Market food hall opening up at 101 North Tryon on November 2nd. Their new venture is named Seoul Good.
https://charlotte.axios.com/321119/a-new-food-hall-is-coming-to-uptown/
If these new Chicago guys that are leading the renovations of the arcade become a part of making pie in the sky move - fuck them.
Also coming to 101 North Tryon:
Zafran.
Fantastic food. Not a chain.
Try it out it will not disappoint.
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article281337053.html
In a blockbuster deal, Carowinds amusement park owner Cedar Fair and Six Flags Entertainment Corp announced Thursday they are merging and moving the new company’s headquarters to Charlotte. Cedar Fair and Six Flags entered into a definitive merger agreement valued at $8 billion, according to a company news release. Cedar Fair is based in Sandusky, Ohio, and Six Flags is in Arlington, Texas. Carowinds, which straddles the North and South Carolina border, is one of 11 Cedar Fair amusement parks and four water parks in the U.S. and Canada.
I think I will do that! Thanks
Should have designed it right the first time so yet another road construction project coming to CLT:
clt says they didnt have a Charlotte grad design that initially
I think they read the blueprint backwards !
It was a stupid design when it was built. What is going to make this crazy is the DOT is also about to redesign the interchange at Belmont Abbey. Thats going to be 2 major exits with in a few miles of each other under construction at the same time AND they are adding lanes to 85 in Gaston County. When done it will be nice but whew its going to be rough getting there.
It was stoopid when designed. The NCDOT does stupid shit here that would not stand in Raleigh. Do you remember the huge delay in completing 485? They blamed in on environmental delays. The real truth was that had multiple design teams not thanking about the very likely potential of 12 lanes from 485e, 485w and 77n rapidly merging into just 2 lanes on 77n just ahead of the new interchange. The delay allowed them to do some emergency measures that was for the cover up of their mistakes and not for the betterment of their citizens who paid for it all