This lot has needed some attention for a while, glad to see something is happening here. I am guessing these are luxury apartments though, have they said anything on that yet? The ASR says they are apartments but they look like town homes.
This is the Stanley Martin Homes stacked condos I believe unless I have my blocks mixed up.
âSouth Heightsâ going in at Sawyer Road and Garner Road.
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Have they broken ground yet? It has been blocked off for awhile now.
The Grey (1201 S Blount):
Some recent movement and plan approval attempts. And some recent permit submissions for concrete pad demo, mass grading/ fill import for brownfield remediation.
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Is Stanley Martin just submitting the same ASR and it keeps getting rejected? Doesnât look like any changes were mad since last ASR was submitted for review. Really wish there was more movement on this property. It really needs attention.
Also noticed the corner convenient store at 201 Bragg Street, facing the Grey site, recently submitted permit for rezoning. Seems to have been closed down. Curious what changes are coming there.
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That was a great weed corner with a side of prostitution. RIP
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As promised, I rode by the South Park WTF House this morning to get some pictures. Construction has been very slow on this thing, but the finished drawings indicate itâs going to look like a shipping container.
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Itâs hard making a box, boxy.
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I meanâŚitâs pretty light on the land to get your square footage on a small lot and get enough height to achieve rooftop above the power lines hangout skyline view dreams⌠
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Hey, Iâd be happy to live in this house. Iâd be happy to live in a house hahaha
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Who wouldnât want to live in a milk carton?
Houses like this always strike me as selfish: I have all the rooms and roof deck and everything I want on the inside. The public has to look at a lazy box speckled with mismatched windows.
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I like odd looking homes though. My dream is to live in one of the nicely done modernist houses, like this one by Gables Motor Lodge on Wake Forest Rd.
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Hmmm, the windows all seem to be matching from a production standpoint and I wager theyâre programmed pretty specifically, not lazily, to create both cool views and, as you suggest, internal spaces. Traditional, it is not. Beauty and the Beholder, a fable indeed.
Personally, kinda interested in the skinny low rectangular window on the back right⌠
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Next time you drive by during the day, look closely at front left facing bedroom, they always place a Yoda staring out the window.
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Another home similar to this is being built on the corner of MLK and S. State Street. Itâs an almost smaller footprint with only a garage on the first floor.
Itâs funny you see this and think âlazyâ while I see it and think âdamn, I bet the architect did a dozen tedious iterations of window placements before landing on something that looks balanced, playful, intentionally random, frames desirable exterior views, and thoughtfully coordinates with whatâs happening on the interior.â 
In many ways, these boxes take much more effort to do well than a classic exterior does, where window placement is already decided for you by symmetry or regular pattern.
(Donât get me wrong, the developer-mod houses are often trash, but this one looks architect-designed, has a thoughtful composition, and really efficient plan. Seeing the photos makes me think they got tired by the time they composed the facade that isnât shown in the slick renderings lmao, but still⌠I think itâll look sharp when finished.)
Now if you want to talk about selfish, let me introduce you to these⌠The âIâve got mine, so fuck youâ attitude radiates from them, with absolutely no porosity to the street, no front entrance â only a side door and garage so that the owners can drive in, enjoy their views pointed away from their neighborhoods, and lounge on their roof decks towering over their surroundings.
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We can both agree that last one is an abomination YIKES
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Fortress Urban/sub 
Lol I like all of them. So much more interesting to me than the cookie cutter houses new and old that adorn our neighborhoods.
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