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5-0 NO. Awesome.
And done with class. The Iredell County Commission voted unanimously against the $452 million Red Line Regional Rail project, which would have put their voters tens of millions of dollars in…
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Do They Have the Guts? Iredell Commission Could Do Region a Favor, Kill Uptown Rail Line Tonight
Build it and they will come, the uptown crowd is promising Iredell County commissioners. “They” being the unnamed developers who are somehow miraculously going to get the financing for development…
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Has Light Rail Actually Damaged the South Boulevard Area? A Consultant Warned it was Undevelopable in 2003. Was he right?
Did light rail destroy parts of the South Boulevard area? Did it drag the far-flung sections outside Uptown’s sphere down from merely aged but still affordable and suitable for some business to a state of…
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Mumford to the Rescue!
Pat Mumford is parachuting from Wachovia to the city of Charlotte payroll in order to stabilize the city’s haphazard economic development forays. The Charlotte Business Journal is reporting that Mumford…
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The Return of the Son of Scaleybark TOD
Hey, hey. A golden oldie. The transit oriented development the city has been trying to secure for a 17-acre parcel next to the South Blvd. choo-choo for three years now…
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Scaleybark Rushed for CATS
As noted here several weeks ago, the city of Charlotte is rushing to get the Scaleybark development project approved by city council so that CATS can have a parking lot…
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Here Comes the (Partial) South Line
As predicted here months ago, CATS is creeping closer to a plan to start running part of the South Blvd. light rail line ahead of the November 6th election —…
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Charlotte: City of Transit Angles
To put Charlotte’s transit debate and future in perspective, let’s drop in on the transit/traffic debate in Los Angeles. This one features Bart Reed, the executive director of The Transit…
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Good Deals, Bad Deals
In the Fayetteville Observer, Michael Sanera takes a skeptical view of consolidation of city and county services. Running out of money, but still looking for development, Charlotte’s light rail experiment…
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Keep Talking = Keep Spending
I got a big chuckle out of the Uptown paper of record today advising the city of Charlotte to “keep talking” with developers and not give up on a big…
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Open Letter to Mary Newsom
Mary: Welcome to the rod of TOD. To paraphrase a grimy serf, “Now you see the violence inherent in the system!” Of course transit oriented development doesn’t care about historic…
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Another CATS Disaster
The $5 million Bank of America development deal for the Scaleybark light rail station is dead. Or so the Charlotte city council was told last night. As of this moment,…