North Carolina development thread. (Charlotte, Greensboro: expansion, green, proposed)
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There’s a difference between saying Lexington’s isn’t nice and Lexington is a global destination and has tourist flocking to the region when that’s not true.
Still doesn’t require a picture of Charlotte’s skyline with caption.
Does anyone have any information on how many people live downtown Winston Salem? I always find that interesting. Aside from actual development, the population usually means better amentities and liveliness of a downtown. Gsoboi posted some great pictures of downtown Greensboro vs Durham. Greensboro looks like a nicer downtown from those pictures but to me Durham has always felt more interesting and lively. Even with the train tracks splitting it down the middle. I think a lot of that is due to the population difference. Greensboro is around 2200 I think? Where as Durham I believe is now 5500+. I can't seem to find what that number is for Winston. Would be good to know since WS, Gboro, and Durham are so close in size right now.
No, i agree with 485, it does not look like a big city, not in the slightest.
A big city is, boston, minneapolis , dallas, atlanta, seattle. Charlotte Etc.
Those are nice big cities, save for huge metropolis like, Chicago, houston, NY, LA etc.
Greensboro is a nice growing midsize city, but in no way does it even remotely resemble a "big city" maybe if you're on elm street on a saturday at 6pm, just maybe then you will feel like you are in a big city. But only then.
While the central buisness district will change dramaticaly in 3 years, At the moment it's just a nice growing and atractive midsize city. Similar to durham, winston, greenville, sheverport, richmond,orlando etc
And from those mentioned Greensboro only has a 300k plus population and size above the rest, however richmond actually looks like a big established city. A true big city. Only thing richmond is missing is a few skyscrapers. However richmond looks like it has atleast 600-700.000 people.
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Similar to how cleveland looks like a big city..but only has 85.000 more people than greensboro at 385k.
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No, i agree with 485, it does not look like a big city, not in the slightest.
A big city is, baltimore, minneapolis , dallas, atlanta, seattle. Charlotte Etc.
Those are nice big cities, save for huge metropolis like, Chicago, houston, NY, LA etc.
Greensboro is a nice growing midsize city, but in no way does it even remotely resemble a "big city" maybe if you're on elm street on a saturday at 6pm, just maybe then you will feel like you are in a big city. But only then.
While the central buisness district will change dramaticaly in 3 years, At the moment it's just a nice growing and atractive midsize city. Similar to durham, winston, greenville, sheverport, richmond,orlando etc
And from those mentioned Greensboro only has a 300k plus population and size above the rest, however richmond actually looks like big city. A true big city. Only thing richmond is missing is a few sktscrapers.
Agree, Greensboro is not a "big" city. I think a poster had made a comment that Greensboro is starting to look like a big city. I do think it's fair to say that Greensboro does have bigger city amenities and feel. but at the same time resembles a smaller college town. Puts it in the middle in terms of vibe. "Mid-size"
The first two pictures actually look like the same city if not inspecting it closely.
Wonder if Durham & Winston are growing as much downtown as GSO. We don’t really have any Durham/Winston posters that post regularly about the development
Winston-Salem and Durham were already more developed than Greensboro, so you see a lot of redevelopment of existing structures in those cities as opposed to new construction. But it should be noted that Durham built its downtown PAC and ballpark years ago.
Winston-Salem and Durham were already more developed than Greensboro, so you see a lot of redevelopment of existing structures in those cities as opposed to new construction. But it should be noted that Durham built its downtown PAC and ballpark years ago.
Yup. Durham built its ballpark in 1995 long before most cities started building downtown ballparks. However the ballpark design predates how they design the concession layout today. Todays ballparks, the field is visible from the consessions. The performing arts center opened there in 2008.
Coming down Wake Forest Rd is my favorite angle of downtown. Will be nice to see most of the gaps filled in the coming years.
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