I bought downtown during this period when nothing was really happening, but I never felt like it was dangerous. Point taken though that nothing was happening downtown. Even Glenwood South was pretty much deadsville.
We arrive in that timeframe too and there were not many places for a young family.
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Anyone see that Fayetteville intends to tear down Crown Coliseum and…wait for it…build a new arena downtown!! The audacity!!
Near the baseball stadium that they just built…downtown.
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The arena wasn’t downtown bc State didn’t want it downtown. They wanted it on the land they owned. The hockey team was an afterthought, literally.
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Damn John, I just realized the same will be true for me. Heavy stuff dude.
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Thankfully there has always been pullen park.
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There’s a reason why I drink! LOL
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I think they are tearing down the older part, which was the Cumberland County Arena, not the newer coliseum. I may be wrong, but that hasn’t been there very long. The ACC Women’s tournament used to play in the old arena.
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Article I read indicated the city plans to build something new downtown, near the new baseball stadium
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It’s a whole complex. The arena and theatre are closing (and will be replaced), the larger coliseum will stay open.
Nothing lasts. We build sports palaces, then somebody gets something bigger and better. Time to tear it down before the thing’s hardly been paid off. Then, here we go again.
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Taken from the first BP on the right heading south on Saunders past the beltline, lots of storm water improvements and erosion control/tree protection up on Kane/Malik’s new land. The silt fence appeared to go into the woods and it also appeared the woods had been thinned. Any insight?!
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This work has been going on for at least four months. It’s on my daily commute.
Okay got you. I wonder if these stormwater improvements are part of the fortify 40 project for improved drainage on the highway
Btw what’s the latest on this project? When should that feasibility study be completed by?
@evan.j.bost that project is a sewer line replacement/realignment.
@niko I haven’t heard much on the Downtown South project. Late last year Bonner Gaylord told the SW CAC that they were looking at submitting the rezoning in January. Don’t think that’s happened. Then we heard about the property acquisition west of Saunders and north & south of I-40. So my guess is Kane & co. are working on a rezoning application (probably planned development) for an area that is significantly larger than the ~50 acres right around Penmarc Dr.
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I hope it’s a PD zoning and not just some random DX zoning right?
Also, semi-related but Richmond’s own Downtown South-like project Navy Hill will likely fail today’s Richmond City Council vote. It’s taken so many years for Navy Hill to be realized that a change in city council has completely stop this project in its tracks. Downtown South needs to be hammered out quickly.
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Seems very reasonable this would be a Planned Development vs standard DX rezone. Fingers crossed.
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Yup. Have a feeling we have a 2 year time window to approve as much as possible. NIMBYs and the so called community leaders looking to extract their share will be back soon.
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