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| The Lodge view of the pond side. |
CP has obtained a copy of Bissell's Friday email to their tenants:
MEMORANDUMTo: Harris Building Tenants
From: Bissell Property Management
Date: August 24, 2012
Re: Road Closure Update
Per the request of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD), portions of streets in Ballantyne will be closed beginning Monday, September 3 at 9:00 a.m. through Friday, September 7 at noon.
There will be limited vehicular access for our tenants, including your employees, customers and guests, on Ballantyne Corporate Place and Ballantyne Commons Parkway. Specific details are included in the attached official advisory and aerial illustrations.
If you typically use the Johnston Road exit from I-485 to get to and from your office, we suggest you consider using the Rea Road exit during this week.
Beginning Friday, August 31 through Friday, September 7, there will be several restrictions on parking in the deck facing The Lodge at Ballantyne. Overnight parking will not be permitted. All vehicles must leave the parking deck by 7:30 p.m. nightly. In addition, there will be some parking restrictions during business hours.
There will be no restrictions on parking in the deck facing Ballantyne Commons Parkway. Additional parking will be available at the Woodward Building deck (access illustrated in attached aerial).
If you are expecting deliveries during the week of September 3, we encourage scheduling the deliveries for the week prior or after. At this time, we anticipate delivery restrictions.
We recognize that this will be challenging for everyone who lives or works in the Ballantyne area and appreciate your patience and understanding. Plans are subject to change. If further details emerge, we will share updates on a special section of www.go-ballantyne.com.
Please feel free to contact me at 704-248-2036 with any questions or concerns.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Cedar's Take: Given the input from several sources, it appeares that POTUS will indeed hold up at the Lodge at Ballantyne for at least one night and that the Re-Elect Obama Campaign will be operating from the location for most of the week.
This is just insane, the DNC2012 has now spread like a fungus across Charlotte. Not only are we facing gridlock uptown but it has now spread to South Charlotte as well.
Seriously who in Ballantyne wants the attention of the national media, the talking heads and protesters? Not to mention terrorist and nut case threats?
Anarchist Threat in Charlotte - Is apparently real and maybe more violent that local officials and media has been letting on.
A copy of a recently released Joint Intelligence Bulletin from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security spells it out here. The bulletin, which wasn't to be released to the media, details past and suspected future actions and methods.
CP's Bonus: How in the world did Guy Fawkes become the face of Anarchy? Guy Fawkes, also known as Guido Fawkes, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. ABC has a good piece from November of 2011 that gives some interesting background on Guy Fawkes here.
Anarchist Threat in Charlotte - Is apparently real and maybe more violent that local officials and media has been letting on.
A copy of a recently released Joint Intelligence Bulletin from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security spells it out here. The bulletin, which wasn't to be released to the media, details past and suspected future actions and methods.
CP's Bonus: How in the world did Guy Fawkes become the face of Anarchy? Guy Fawkes, also known as Guido Fawkes, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. ABC has a good piece from November of 2011 that gives some interesting background on Guy Fawkes here.
Rodney Monroe In Tampa - The Chief of Charlotte's Police Department is visiting Tampa tonight for a "first hand" look at how things go during the GOP Convention. Meanwhile CP has learned that dozens of outside Officers expected to help during the DNC event next week have backed out or never materialized. The number now expected is 50 percent of what was originally planned, which might explain the reason for the National Guard call up.
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| JOHN D. SIMMONS - jsimmons@charlotteobserver.com |
According to sources the turnout and far less than 40,000. No word on a number of arrests if any, but there were some heated exchanges between some protesters and a couple of lesbians. All things considered it was pretty much a non-event. And so it goes....
More on Charlotte's Gay Pride Fest from QNotes which is here.
New and Improved Rea Road - Made in India? - Nothing says progress like wiping out thousands of trees to build a bigger road. But progress can't be stopped so over the next year the City of Charlotte will work towards completing one of only a handful of road improvement projects in South Charlotte.
On the plus side Rea Road between the corner of Rea/Colony and Highway 51 (Pineville Matthews Road - For newbies) Rea will continue to be a two lane road. An added plus is a bike lane and landscaped median.
On the what are they thinking question there is this:
Made in India? Seriously?
You have to look closely because the name CAPITOL is a good distractor, but just to the left is "Made in India". Yes, the storm sewer grates at the intersection of Highway 51 and Rea Road are made in India. I imagine that what we are looking at is the end result of "ship breaking" that goes on along the Indian coast.
However, further down Rea Road different:
Storm sewer grates waiting to be installed are made by US Foundry & Mfg Corp of Miami Florida and include the "Dump No Waste" and "Flows To River" warnings as well as a silhouette of a Rainbow Trout.
A call to Charlotte's DOT didn't clear up the question of why Highway 51 has "Made In India" storm sewer grates and Rea Road has made is USA products. Seems the contract for the Highway 51 portion of the project was handled by NC DOT where the Rea Road portion is a City of Charlotte contract.
City staff that CP spoke to didn't know if road construction contracts required the use of US products.
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