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Kinston! At least Kinston before the Hurricane Matthew floods. I don't know about now...
Vivian Howard and the Chef and the Farmer drew a attention to the town - they opened a second restaurant and someone else opened a brewery. The downtown has great old architecture and lots of space (read, it's really pretty dead and ripe for revitalization). I drove through in September and thought about this very thing.
There's not a lot to draw people to the area and I think it would take a very long time, but Kinston has great potential.
Kinston! At least Kinston before the Hurricane Matthew floods. I don't know about now...
Vivian Howard and the Chef and the Farmer drew a attention to the town - they opened a second restaurant and someone else opened a brewery. The downtown has great old architecture and lots of space (read, it's really pretty dead and ripe for revitalization). I drove through in September and thought about this very thing.
There's not a lot to draw people to the area and I think it would take a very long time, but Kinston has great potential.
i dont disagree with your perception and have also noticed the new buzz about kinston but if you take a step back it's all because that TV show and restaurant i mean it just seemed luck of the draw a trendy restaurant and show landed there but there are a zillion towns just like kinston
i dont disagree with your perception and have also noticed the new buzz about kinston but if you take a step back it's all because that TV show and restaurant i mean it just seemed luck of the draw a trendy restaurant and show landed there but there are a zillion towns just like kinston
i guess it shows what hype can do
Oh I totally agree with you. Pure luck. I love those old downtowns, so I hope that now that people are less enthralled with malls than they used to be, they'll come back a bit. Too many boarded up storefronts!
Kinston! At least Kinston before the Hurricane Matthew floods. I don't know about now...
Vivian Howard and the Chef and the Farmer drew a attention to the town - they opened a second restaurant and someone else opened a brewery. The downtown has great old architecture and lots of space (read, it's really pretty dead and ripe for revitalization). I drove through in September and thought about this very thing.
There's not a lot to draw people to the area and I think it would take a very long time, but Kinston has great potential.
The flood will likely HELP Kinston, because it will draw in money that wasn't there before and buyout SOME properties that needed to be torn down anyway.
Kinston is getting its minor league baseball team back next year and has done some work on tearing down dilapidated buildings over the past few years. It has plans, but I don't think the residential side of things is positive for Kinston.
One thing that needs to happen for Kinston is the bypass the State is trying to push is going to go SOUTH of the flooded area, which is already south of town, taking the bypass miles away from downtown. If the State went north with the bypass it could utilize the GTP highway and be on the Greenville side, which is the side the has potential to grow. It interesting to me that highway interchange locations are big business in Charlotte or Raleigh, but if a place like Kinston needs more money for a better location it gets shot down for "funding" reasons.
The first city that comes to mind when I see this topic is New Bern.
A few things it has going for it
-Is historic, first capital of the state, birthplace of Pepsi, Tyron Palace
-Sits on two rivers
-Is home to a well known celebrity, Nicholas Sparks.
However a few things that are probably holding the city back from becoming a city like Wilmington or Charleston.
-No 4 year public university
-No interstate
-No port
-Geographically, it's in kind of an odd spot. It's about an hours drive or so to the coast and heading west towards Raleigh on Highway 70 is miles and miles of nothing.
The first city that comes to mind when I see this topic is New Bern.
However a few things that are probably holding the city back from becoming a city like Wilmington or Charleston.
-No interstate
US-70 is planned to become I-42 between I-40 near Garner and Morehead City once it's upgraded to interstate standards, so it's no longer an issue. There are already "Future I-42" signs posted along US-70. The Goldsboro Bypass and the Clayton Bypass are the only sections of US-70 that currently meets interstate standards.
Good transportation is a requirement for a city to grow. A city needs a good airport with service and Interstate access.
Look at any small city outside the big metros in NC, you have a few towns and cities that meet this criterial.
Hickory lost its air service and it has hurt Hickory development.
Greenville/Kinston service by CLT
New Bern service by CLT
Jacksonville service by CLT
I can not find fights from RDU & Tria
Asheville, RDU, Wilmington, Triad Airport, Fayetteville all service by CLT
CLT has the largest express service hub in the world, so it service a lot of small markets.
Concourse E
Concourse E has 38 gates and is entirely used for American Eagle flights, operating just over 340 flights per day (making it the largest express operation in the world). It opened in 2002. Gates E1 through E3 are available for any air carrier to use
Last edited by CLT1985; 11-16-2016 at 09:22 AM..
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