Posted January 20th, 2009 at 2:17 PM by Jeff A. Taylor
The new music venue was announced amid great hoopla exactly two months ago by the NC Music Factory bunch. Still not among the Live Nation list of venues and the spring tour season is ramping up.
Guess we’ll hear something when we hear something.
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January 20th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
When does Noah ask the Obamessiah for a bailout?
January 20th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
I guess if the city of Charlotte gets any money then by extension the Lazes will be as well. Didn’t the city spring for a need road into their complex?
January 20th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Jeff, I know you posted this “need road” here before, however, I have documents from both the state NCDOT and meck county DOT regarding that road — well before Noah even engaged in the actual negotiations on that land and its access roads.
The “federal quiet zone” reduction and train noise mitigation efforts — undertaken by the Friends of Fourth Ward starting in pre-1999 years, included this relocation of the Seaboard Street Extension as one of the first steps to meet the demands of the federal DOT.
Non-secured street crossings and “private rail crossings” have to be closed to meet fed DOT requirements, so this was on the docket before Noah graduated 8th grade. ACTUALLY, since I knew you’d ask: go to http://www.charmeck.org and “real estate lookup,” Richard Lazes purchased this at 1000 Seaboard Street on June 13, 2001 – long after initial plans were set in place to work on this.
And the Town of Cary, in fact since you asked, also worked to establish a quiet zone through their downtown (which they successfully accomplished) so you can read more about the requirements, and about why the Feds told Charlotte back in the 90s they needed to close this, amongst other (7th, 8th, 9th, 10th Streets crossings) to meet the minimums:
http://www.townofcary.org/pd/pl08-001exh-a.htm
I’ll send you (privately) by email the other docs if you wish….
http://www.townofcary.org/pd/pl08-001exh-a.htm
January 20th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
So the city had no choice but to build the road? And at the same time start running its own trains with fake train sounds in and out of Uptown? I don’t doubt what you say is true, it is — as ever — mighty handy for the Powers That Be to get done what they want to get done. Then we build a road for the Whitewater Center, build a road for IKEA. It never ends.
Except it is about to. Charlotte’s great run as a banking center is about to crash and burn.
January 21st, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Are we heading back to 1989 when everything uptown closed at 6 PM cause you didn’t want to be there after dark and the only big boondoogle was City Fair?
January 21st, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Well, Carolina Theater still has not been resolved, so there is a back-to-the-future element at work. Does that still have yet another publicly-subsidized performance space in its specs? It did at one time.