Charlotte Urbanism

[John Mason Wallace]

Hello,

I'm hoping to start building productive places in the Queen City.

I was studying in SCAD when I took a few too many architectural history courses. From then I learned about sprawl, then Congress for New Urbanism, then the Small Developers group.

Charlotte is the queen of sprawl, but she has a ring of excellently laid out neighborhoods. The future of the city will be in it's downtown core and inner neighborhoods.

I want to slowly build up my portfolio starting from the duplex then on up, contributing to these neighborhoods along the way. Walkable urbanism is in such great demand but the supply is just not there.

Transit is abysmal, zoning is awful, but I see the winds of change coming.

My family is in real estate, but mostly related to sprawl. At one point they managed a shopping center on Independence. When they saw East Charlotte start to go into decline, and NCDOT start tearing up the road and turn it into an awful highway, they packed up and invested further out.

[Maran Banta]

John, Have you read Ryan Gravel's "Where We Want To Live?"

Gravel was doing grad work at Georgia Tech when he designed the Atlanta Beltline.

It's a 25 year project & we're about ten years in. 

I Love the Beltline, in short it's the antithesis of everything Jeff said about Atlanta.

And lots of us have already seen $$ profits in REI - with lots more to come.

If you're ever intown give me a shout, we can take a walk.

https://www.amazon.com/Where-Want-Live-Reclaiming-...