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You're right, blackpres...I was born in 1970. At the time, the building now known as Two Wachovia Center was the tallest building in town--and it wasn't finished yet.
cag1970 3 years ago
oh, you was born around 1971 im guessing, cause that's the year it opened. they are buliding another greyhound station, i found out that it's gonna be a mass transit center, with the north line of lynx going towards huntersville or something like that. then there's the commuter rail going towards the triad and raleigh-durham area, amtrak, then greyhound lines. it's gonna be built somewhere near johnson and wales, i dont know exactly where, but they runnin out of room to build anything, lol.
blackpres9 3 years ago
the idea for a homeless shelter would of been nice. they also could of converted the site into a bigger greyhound bus station. the one we have is too puny for a city this big. although their nice to look at, we dont need more skyscrapers, lol.
blackpres9 3 years ago
There has been talk of building a new Greyhound station in Charlotte, as part of a package including a new Amtrak station. You're right, it's definitely needed. But you can never have too many skyscrapers. To give you an idea of how old I am--the building known today as Two Wachovia Center was still under construction when I was born.
cag1970 3 years ago
"Outlived it's usefulness"? Have you ever been homeless? 300 people could have lived in there with the basement converted to shower rooms and bathrooms. Try spending a night sleeping outside in Charlotte. By about 3 a.m. you'll wish you could sleep inside a building. America is the land of too much and therefore we take so much for granted.
hwycine 5 years ago
Do you have any idea how valuable that piece of real estate is, hwycine? I agree that it would've made for a pretty good shelter, especially since it was designed as a radiation fallout shelter, but let's be honest. Charlotte isn't a city that's really married to its history. And with a property as valuable as that, there was no way anything other than a lucrative commercial property was going to be put there. The nature of the beast, I'm afraid.
cag1970 5 years ago
As for being homeless...no, I've never had that experience. But it's hard for me to take for granted the roof over my head when I have to go to work every day to pay for it and what lies underneath it. I don't say that as a matter of sarcasm. I know there are lots of homeless in this city, but I also see those who are playing at it, too, trying to run a hustle on folks who do have a heart about it.
cag1970 5 years ago
What a waste of re-usable building materials...
hwycine 5 years ago
Actually, they saved some very unique chandeliers from the building. They are going to use those in the new shopping/entertainment/condo complex they're building in the old convention center's stead.
It was, unfortunately, time for the building to go. It had outlived its usefulness, and at the time of its demise, was only being used for its public parking underneath.
cag1970 5 years ago