We love when industrial becomes an urban neighborhood! 12 acres down, 33 more to go. Trammel Crow & Charlotte Pipe & Foundry announced that the 1st Iron District phase will include 500 residential units, 150 hotel, 150K office, and 100K retail. This is epic of Uptown Charlotte

I moved from Denver to Dallas in 2014 and immediately adopted y’all

Happening today in Charlotte! CLT Demure Development and I are hosting a conversation with Bert Lynn from Meck County Parks and Rec Learn about • New parks coming to CLT • How we plan for & pay for parks • How to advocate for parks in your neighborhood 📍Parr Center ⏱️11 - 1

I talk a lot about how we’re creating real estate value and positive community impact at Camp North End - I should talk more about the scale of the project. ✔️ 350k sf adaptive reuse Delivering very soon: 301 apartments Coming soon: 3 million+ sf with 2,200 apartments

Most of the urbanism conversation is focused on high density, for rent housing. I think the much bigger opportunity is in middle density, for sale housing.

sports can make urbanism cool if we want to shift the culture, and create more walkable cities, we need athletes

There are so many exciting things ahead of Charlotte Urbanists. I've committed myself to being much more involved in this group, and we are planning tons of exciting engagement opportunities, and we will become much more involved in urban activism this year and next.

Open Air Live Hosted by East Coast Entertainment every 3rd Thursday of the month 🎶 Sol Fusion 📍Camp North End

I shared the five secrets of placemaking yesterday at #Blueprint2024: Events, Tenants, Art, Plants, and String Lights. Laura heard the sixth: you can't outsource placemaking. Thank you again for the opportunity, Brad Hargreaves

The Ford Green is one of my favorite spots at Camp North End. The only problem… Moving the giant legos for events takes forever! Who has a solution for how we could efficiently move 1,000 giant legos? (It currently takes two of our guys 45 minutes to an hour.)

My controversial opinion for the day.. Suburban neighborhoods would be better if the houses didn’t have garages. People go from the privacy of their homes to the privacy of their cars - never interacting with neighbors except a wave while driving by. Without a garage, you’d

Update: Over a year later and this building is still vacant Rumor was a donut shop was moving in. They added some signage, a sidewalk, and did some landscaping… But nothing’s happened in months and it looks abandoned 😔

This would be *really* nice. Pretty enough for (almost) any neighborhood