Duncan and Legends Parking Gone

[goapps93]

I have been given some details on the Legends project.As described it will be a huge positive for the U, and the town. Something much needed for a long time.My opinion.

Care to share any details?

[Stonewall]

I was asked not to.

[beav910]

Isn't it in the masterplan what the future of the legends area is? A new hotel/green space right?

[311neers]

I have been given some details on the Legends project.As described it will be a huge positive for the U, and the town. Something much needed for a long time.My opinion.

Oh nice, a starbucks on Campus! haha, kidding. Or maybe even a car wash!

Would love to see more small boutique hotels on 1-2 acre sized lots. Anywhere we can get em!

[HighlandsApp]

And the master plan has a P3 full service hotel and parking garage wrapped around that back corner. Maybe there's some third party that's going to take us up on the offer of using that land....

[AppYosef!]

Any word on where they plan to pick up more parking to replace these lots? Legends is the lot I have been assigned for several years even though I pay above that level. I know there is a deck planned for behind the Holmes Center but those spaces would only help with the current tight parking issues.

[appgrouch]

Actually, Duncan has nothing to do with the creek (at least for now).

Duncan Hall will be fully gutted next year and renovated.
Peacock's addition will likely begin in Fall 23 as well.

At least part of Duncan lot will be taken for staging of materials and equipment for these projects.

[TheMoody1]

Any word on where they plan to pick up more parking to replace these lots? Legends is the lot I have been assigned for several years even though I pay above that level. I know there is a deck planned for behind the Holmes Center but those spaces would only help with the current tight parking issues.

They are working to add spaces to the current lots and they will be renting multiple lots within walking distance.

[AppStateRTP]

Holmes Parking Deck Project: https://www.appstate.edu/appalachians-f ... lmes-deck/


Status
In March 2022, App State’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved a motion to build the Holmes Parking Deck. The project received approval from the University of North Carolina System Board of Governors at the board’s May 26, 2022, meeting.

Planning and design for the project began in spring 2022 and continued throughout summer 2022. Architecture firm Lord Aeck Sargent performed a conceptual design study for the project, which was completed in June 2022.

The university has selected New Atlantic, based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, as the contractor that will both design and build the deck. Construction is slated to begin in spring 2023.

Holmes Parking Deck is anticipated to open for the fall 2024 semester.

[NewApp]

The west side of campus is VASTLY improved. Much more efficient use of the land and visually it looks 10x better. Change is hard, I get it, but how anyone could miss the eyesore that was stadium lot is beyond me.

It was an eyesore for sure, but at least had some space. We have none anywhere anymore. Our campus is still beautiful but with the exception of Smith-Wright and Chappel Wilson, we look like an urban campus. Still my first favorite but with West Chester my second, Davidson 3rd, Duke 4th. But that's just me.

[McLeansvilleAppFan]

The west side of campus is VASTLY improved. Much more efficient use of the land and visually it looks 10x better. Change is hard, I get it, but how anyone could miss the eyesore that was stadium lot is beyond me.

It was an eyesore for sure, but at least had some space. We have none anywhere anymore. Our campus is still beautiful but with the exception of Smith-Wright and Chappel Wilson, we look like an urban campus. Still my first favorite but with West Chester my second, Davidson 3rd, Duke 4th. But that's just me.

Large parking lots are so bad for water quality and flooding. Had the parking area had a semipermeable surface it would not had been so bad but I'll take what we have now EVERY single time. It could be better but a move in the right direction and coupled with daylighting the creek that part of campus is going to be beautiful. The area that was redone a few years ago is so nice and the adds so much to the visual of the campus.

I do appreciate the way Davidson is built with so much green space but they have maintained a 2,000 enrollment for a century and I assume never plan to expand. And they have a huge endowment so likely don't feel the need to grow.

[NewApp]

Everything costs more.....

And sometimes it seems no one is trying to stop it.

[McLeansvilleAppFan]

Everything costs more.....

And sometimes it seems no one is trying to stop it.

A bit of inflation is a good thing, especially compared to deflation.

[Saint3333]

True , but 2% is the target not 8%.

The fed is now attempting to fix the issue it created.

[McLeansvilleAppFan]

hence the word “bit”

[HighlandsApp]

70% of the inflation number over the last year has gone exclusively to increases in corporate profits....

Why on Earth is this thread now talking about inflation?

[Saint3333]

hence the word “bit”

No you are vastly underselling a 300% difference, but that narrative is one you don’t want to engage in.

Next you’re going to lie to me and tell me gas is cheaper now then January 2021 like someone else I know.

[Saint3333]

70% of the inflation number over the last year has gone exclusively to increases in corporate profits....

Why on Earth is this thread now talking about inflation?

Bernie is that you? Take an Econ class.

[NewApp]

70% of the inflation number over the last year has gone exclusively to increases in corporate profits....

Why on Earth is this thread now talking about inflation?

Highlander, I won't get into this thread except to say you are exactly right. Econ classes or not.

[McLeansvilleAppFan]

hence the word “bit”

No you are vastly underselling a 300% difference, but that narrative is one you don’t want to engage in.

Next you’re going to lie to me and tell me gas is cheaper now then January 2021 like someone else I know.

Bit "an indefinite usually small degree, extent, or amount" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bit

I can't stop you from adding words to what I typed but I typed "bit" and meant it and really nothing more.

Gas is more expensive and if that drives the miles people are driving to lower amounts and looking at less polluting alternatives then I don't see that as a bad thing. And if that moves us away from having to suck the "D" of despots then all the better in the long run for our own national security. That and the record profits fossil fuel companies are recording needs to be addressed.

Also US inflation is lower than most other countries with advanced economies.

That is not to say I like seeing the inflation we are having but this is not hyper inflation and still better than deflation.