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It's a travel magazine, so the accolades are based on where people want to visit. Living in a tourist destination can be a PITA. It would be nice if some of the tourist dollars went to infrastructure instead of more hotels. I think the city leaders are being very shortsighted.
The problem is- aside from Charleston Place when it was developed as an Omni to literally save downtown- all the capital being put into hotels is private not public. A lot of it is not even local money. So the folks are not asking themselves if the community is better served by a 100 room hotel downtown or a street realignment and landscape project in the suburbs. They are deciding if they want to do a hotel in downtown Charleston or another city. The invasion of stack-a-shack apartments is similar in that those folks (aside form the ones who own the Post & Courrier) are coming into town and putting up the same block of 'urban' apartments they do in every other city. A different type of improvement or area will not interest them.
The problem is- aside from Charleston Place when it was developed as an Omni to literally save downtown- all the capital being put into hotels is private not public. A lot of it is not even local money. So the folks are not asking themselves if the community is better served by a 100 room hotel downtown or a street realignment and landscape project in the suburbs. They are deciding if they want to do a hotel in downtown Charleston or another city. The invasion of stack-a-shack apartments is similar in that those folks (aside form the ones who own the Post & Courrier) are coming into town and putting up the same block of 'urban' apartments they do in every other city. A different type of improvement or area will not interest them.
Love your term “stack a shack”. This is exactly what those apartments look like as we enter our beautiful City of Charleston. It’s disgraceful and honestly who wants to live in buildings so close to the roadway where your main view is the traffic whizzing by?
Of course, as you exit the city, you now get to view the “beautiful”..(Not).. parking garage at the base of the Ravenel entering Mount Pleasant.
And to whose benefit is all this construction?
Love your term “stack a shack”. This is exactly what those apartments look like as we enter our beautiful City of Charleston. It’s disgraceful and honestly who wants to live in buildings so close to the roadway where your main view is the traffic whizzing by?
Of course, as you exit the city, you now get to view the “beautiful”..(Not).. parking garage at the base of the Ravenel entering Mount Pleasant.
And to whose benefit is all this construction?
Yeah, all that urban decay those buildings replaced were so charming. I really miss the drug dealers and tent cities that used to be there.
The buildings all over downtown Charleston are closed to the road. That’s what the city has always looked like.
What a joke!
Terrible roads, worse roads in the Southeast, potholes and uneven roads everywhere. The infrastructure is terrible with a lack of roads throughout all of Charleston County. Dirt roads still in many neighborhoods leading to homes. Behind the times for everything to develop compared to other states along the eastern coast. The beaches are nice and downtown is cool.
You are so brave to say that in a Charleston forum. I get it. I grew up here but am only still here now because of family but hope to get back to the Upstate one day.
Last edited by diddlydudette; 07-12-2019 at 03:12 PM..
Love your term “stack a shack”. This is exactly what those apartments look like as we enter our beautiful City of Charleston. It’s disgraceful and honestly who wants to live in buildings so close to the roadway where your main view is the traffic whizzing by?
Of course, as you exit the city, you now get to view the “beautiful”..(Not).. parking garage at the base of the Ravenel entering Mount Pleasant.
And to whose benefit is all this construction?
At least they are held to higher design standards in Charleston, plus you also get high-quality developments like Courier Square, Five Eleven Meeting, and Meeting Street Lofts.
#1. The increased state sales tax on gas for road repairs and improvements is quietly beginning to pay off.
#2. The city is investing millions right now on new drainage infrastructure and is working with a coalition from the Netherlands to design more infrastructure for the future. While funding is an issue, it is a state issue because of the giant cash cow that is tourism.
#3. The new apartment buildings and office buildings that are going up all over the upper peninsula not only are replacing ugly single-story buildings, but are appropriate that far away from the historic areas, and the up-to-the-street urban design is perfect.
#4. The city architectural board has updated its height restrictions so that they now focus on the design of the top floor and roof lines of buildings to create more variety.
#5. The city is working on and perhaps has already passed (can’t quite recall) new rules on hotel development that will force hotel developers to put some skin in the game to keep more of a balance between guest rooms, housing replacement, and public amenities in their proposals (something to that effect).
#6. In other words, got concerns? Read up. They are being world on. It’s Charleston.
#1. The increased state sales tax on gas for road repairs and improvements is quietly beginning to pay off.
#2. The city is investing millions right now on new drainage infrastructure and is working with a coalition from the Netherlands to design more infrastructure for the future. While funding is an issue, it is a state issue because of the giant cash cow that is tourism.
#3. The new apartment buildings and office buildings that are going up all over the upper peninsula not only are replacing ugly single-story buildings, but are appropriate that far away from the historic areas, and the up-to-the-street urban design is perfect.
#4. The city architectural board has updated its height restrictions so that they now focus on the design of the top floor and roof lines of buildings to create more variety.
#5. The city is working on and perhaps has already passed (can’t quite recall) new rules on hotel development that will force hotel developers to put some skin in the game to keep more of a balance between guest rooms, housing replacement, and public amenities in their proposals (something to that effect).
#6. In other words, got concerns? Read up. They are being world on. It’s Charleston.
It's been a long time since I've agreed with you on something, but this is 'right on'.
Trashing your hometown accomplishes nothing but self satisfaction of saying "see! I told myself so!"
Seriously, life is way too short to loathe where you live. If you're that miserable, leave, go move to where makes you happy. The hardest things we have to do sometimes in our lives are only one difficult, long step in front of our noses. The hardest part is taking the 1st step, once you get the momentum to move forward, you'll be just fine. Take that 1st step and get some joy in your life...
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