Would you consider Cincinnati and Charlotte, NC to be very similar?

[Cincy-Rise]

... And here's the $80 million-dollar Riverfront Park (awesome slideshow)

http://www.crpark.org/slide_show/index.html

[Carolina Blue]

“Ground has been broken on The Banks, an 18-acre, US$600 million mixed-use development on the Ohio River in Downtown Cincinnati,…The initial part of the project’s first phase consists of about 300 apartments and 70,000 square feet of retail and restaurants; construction is scheduled for completion in 2010…Subject to contingencies, the second part of Phase I will include an office building of at least 200,000 square feet and possibly a hotel… the particulars of subsequent phases remain flexible…”

Link: The Banks project gets underway in Cincinnati – Daily Commercial News


Nice, sounds similar to our Midtown Greenway development.



Links:
http://www.charlottecentercity.org/D...tropolitan.pdf
Metropolitan • Charlotte, North Carolina • Pappas Properties

or our Third Ward Park and Baseball stadium development, which is also next to our football stadium….



Links:
http://www.charlottecentercity.org/Development_Report/Third_Ward/west_park_baseball.pdf (broken link)
Novare Group - Charlotte Third Ward - Charlotte, North Carolina
Novare Group - TWELVE Charlotte - Charlotte, North Carolina


Again, nice, but overall it doesn’t sound like anything over and above what is going on in downtown Charlotte. For example…

http://www.charlottecentercity.org/D.../epicentre.pdf
http://www.charlottecentercity.org/D.../ritz_bofa.pdf
http://www.charlottecentercity.org/D...ard/encore.pdf
http://www.charlottecentercity.org/D...wn_village.pdf
http://www.charlottecentercity.org/D...rd/the_vue.pdf
http://www.charlottecentercity.org/D...son_graham.pdf
http://www.charlottecentercity.org/D...west_trade.pdf
http://www.charlottecentercity.org/D...ay_station.pdf
http://www.charlottecentercity.org/D...rst_street.pdf
http://www.charlottecentercity.org/D...uth_Church.pdf
http://www.charlottecentercity.org/D...uarterside.pdf
http://www.charlottecentercity.org/D.../elizabeth.pdf

I guess we too are building “another downtown unto the current downtown”, LMAO!!!!

[Cincy-Rise]

^ Are you giving me projects city-wide or just Downtown (CBD)?

[Carolina Blue]

Originally Posted by Carolina Blue

Link 1: http://www.charlottecentercity.org/f...TOKEN=60306378

Link 2: Charlotte Center City Partners

Just the CBD (downtown/midtown). Amazing isn't it. Reading the two links I'd posted before just above might help.

[pirate_lafitte]

Charlotte and Cincinnati have almost nothing in common. Charlotte is a younger city than Cincinnati. Charlotte has a more suburban feel Charlotte also has a larger city-limits population. The climate in Charlotte is more similar to Atlanta than it is to Cincinnati. Another difference, and this difference could sound very ironic: Race relations seem much better in Charlotte than in Cincinnati, considering Charlotte is in the South. The last time I checked, Cincinnati is still having alot of problems in that category.

[Bigbluelandrover]

Pirate-I agree. I lived in Charlotte for a lil while. They are two totally different cities. Charlotte is surburbia--its "uptown" is no more than 5-6 blocks!.. Charlotte is kinda country once you get out of the city and the burbs...