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Okay, FW.
But I am not surprised - that sort of drop showed up here too:
With Dilworth down from:
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Aug. 2007 : $356,000
Aug. 2012 : $231,000
== that is:-$125,000 / -35.1%
Dec. 2012 : $236,000
How could New Bern avoid similar falls?
(A solvent New Bern condo owner can sell down, and move to Dilworth.)
I reckon there may now be some interesting bargains to be found, and that is one of the things attracting me to Charlotte.
Homes all over America (in hot spots) lost 30 to 50% of their value during the housing crash.
This station doesn't look that hostile to me however, I'm not sure how busy it is during rush hour.
It is not the STATION that is hostile.
It is the fast moving traffic around it. An all that parking space detroys any "sense of space" which would leave pedestrians wanting to be there for any reason other than catching the train.
Do you prefer that station to this one ?:
In which of them would you rather wait for a train?
In which of them would you rather wait for a train?
I'd rather have the Scaleybark station when the plan I gave you the link to is built. It's far superior on a human scale than that cold mass of stainless steel and glass.
Certainly you have to agree the Scaleybark Station plan is far far superior.
It is not the STATION that is hostile.
It is the fast moving traffic around it. An all that parking space detroys any "sense of space" which would leave pedestrians wanting to be there for any reason other than catching the train.
Do you prefer that station to this one ?:
In which of them would you rather wait for a train?
Did you see any fast moving traffic in that photo?
Why would we build a station that big for a stop that small? That is wasteful spending. The stations with the most pedestrians looks like this:
There is no need for huge station projects like you provided for a city our size.
Isn't part of the funding for the Northeast Extnesion also including expansion of the south line stops to support three-car trains?
I think Charlotte could already justify running double trains at all times. When they run singles, I refer to them mentally as "here comes the clown car" and we all stuff ourselves onto it. Maybe they need to run singles though some of the time, to allow for maintenance scheduling.
As far as Scaleybark station goes: Yes the area feels dilapidated. Investors have bought out various businesses around there, and the vacant lots and unmaintained (remaining) buildings housing pawn shops are obviously not what the city envisioned for the area.
But the New Bern developments are only half a mile away. Scaleybark will turn over when the market is ready.
I also like mixed use developments with shops on the ground floor, and residential housing above. Birkdale Villlage has that, and so will this new development called Riverwalk in Rock Hill SC, which looks good to my eyes:
Do Carolinians like this sort of mixed use development?
Thanks for sharing this, I've driven by that area but didn't really know what the exact plan was. But while it looks nice, I would still estimate that 95% of the people that live there (and Birkdale for that matter) would still own cars. And a good portion of them would probably work in NC...
Scaleybark is about as far out on the line you can go and feel "close" to uptown. I've ridden the train many times since it opened five years ago, and parked at every station that has parking.
If I leave my car at Scaleybark, it still feels a bit too distant to just hop on the train and go back out there, drive my car on an errand, and return to catch the train again, and continue to work. I've done this a few times and it just doesn't fit into a lunch hour.
Scaleybark may be close enough that when townhomes are built near it, someone could feel like heading home to change clothes, or grab some item that was left behind and needed for work, without interrupting the day.
That said, it takes about as much time to walk from the middle of uptown out to the fringe parking near 277 as it does to take the train to Scaleybark.
I'm sure development will come to the stations farther out. It's still a quick ride into the center city, and omits the hassle of parking there. But they're too far out to feel like "immediate" access is available.
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