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Charlotte Hipsters Make Their Demands
My latest column for Carolina Journal: CHARLOTTE — It was a protest that absolutely no one in Charlotte saw coming. A dive bar in a hip neighborhood was to be…
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Meanwhile in Plaza Midwood
Per the UPoR, this happened Wednesday night: That flood of growth is what drew more than 50 people to Snug Harbor in Plaza Midwood on Wednesday night to talk about…
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Tommy's Pub rezoning approved
Anyone surprised by this, except for maybe a couple of Plaza-Midwood hipsters? No, I didn’t think so. The city of Charlotte’s business model very much is redevelopment, putting more people…
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Tommy's Pub rezoning
Charlotte’s changing. And more to the point, Plaza Midwood is changing. Some people who hang out there or (especially) live there don’t like that. Which is why there’s now an…
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Remembering Chilly Willy
Tommy Tomlinson has a nice article about Charlotte’s best known and most beloved alcoholic, William “Chilly Willy ” Major, who was struck by a car on 7th Street last night…
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It's a Miracle: Housing Values Across Mecklenburg Skyrocket Despite Recession say … County Tax Appriasers
In the middle of the worst housing crisis America has ever known, miracles are occurring across Mecklenburg County. Housing values are shooting up, doubling even, in affluent areas likely to…
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My Husband: We Just Can't Make This Work
Our county taxes, that is. And the implications are huge for uptown area property — and prosperity. Essentially, uptown is eating itself. My husband was recently floored by our mortgage…
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The Guns of Midwood
Well, well. An armed citizens patrol is on the streets in Plaza-Midwood. Cause and effect. Folks feel CMPD does not care, don’t intend to sit around with bulls-eyes on their…
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The Density God Reappears
Nuther clip-n-save quote from QC officialdom on our land-use goals. The topic is tear-downs and “McMansion” infill development in close-in neighborhoods like Plaza Midwood and Elizabeth. Neighborhood association types are…
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Meanwhile, in Other Aneurysms
I’m overwhelmed. Can’t get it all out. Feeling dizzy, tasting metal. Try to double-back later, but for now: First Dilworth, now Plaza-Midwood? Residents wonder if they should pool money to…
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Journalism via Google
Or something like that. USA Today had a story listing “10 great places to drink in the Super Bowl action.” Among them was Plaza-Midwood’s very own Thomas Street Tavern, someplace…
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Plaza-Midwood Goes NoDa
This just in, gentrification is alive in Charlotte. No. Duh. Although I have my doubts about pegging a news story about neighborhood changes to a rent increase for the chronically-broke…