Comments on: Strange start of the week in Charlotte

By: The future of the Vue, the Park, and skyscrapers around the world | CLT Blog

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:30:15 +0000

[...] Last week the Vue joined the Park on Charlotte’s list of buildings put on hold due to non-payment. But Charlotte is by no means alone in our struggle to finish what we’ve started. In a recent article by TD Architects out of Rotterdam: “‘On hold’ is probably the most heard phrase in the past several months in architecture offices around the world. What might sound at first as a slight delay has had an effect similar to stepping on an active garden hose: either the stoppage is brief and the project jumps into realization, or the hose bursts – end of project. According to Emporis and Skyscraperpage, two major high-rise building survey websites, there are currently 198 skyscrapers (>100m) ‘on hold’, amounting to 10% (Skyscraperpage) or 11 % (Emporis) of the skyscraper projects around the world. (…) In total there are 42.1 km of high-rise buildings on hold, with Asia home to more than one third (16.1 km) of the accumulated height. The impact on employment is severe. For example, delay of South America’s proposed tallest buillding, Gran Torre Costanera (300m), has resulted in 2,000 jobs on hold, according to local unions. Extrapolating this meters-to-jobs ratio to all 198 skyscraper projects on hold, the niche product ‘skyscraper’ would be good for about 280,000 job losses worldwide.” [...]

By: Justin Ruckman

Justin Ruckman — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:58:11 +0000

It really is a shame. I hope they can come to a solution soon, Charlotte doesn’t need any more scandalous projects.

By: Burt

Burt — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:31:08 +0000

Try these links:
http://www.mclcompanies.com/beyondchicago.aspx?res=36
http://www.vuecharlotte.com
http://flickr.com/photos/thevue

By: ShKira

ShKira — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:08:36 +0000

There really should be a (more thorough) bonding of the developers to show that they actually HAVE the capital to complete these projects. Because the poor contractors certainly have to go through that process.

Also Charlotte really needs to have some new rules for big box stores. We have too many vacant. There should be binding legislation that ties an economic penalty for over building these things and then just moving them farther to the exurbs a couple years later.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:41:28 +0000

Troubling news indeed. Let’s hope for the best (maybe they can stop at four floors?).

By: Dane Abernathy

Dane Abernathy — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:04:09 +0000

This also puts the subcontractors in a bad position, as well as the construction workers like myself. My company is now trying find other projects to place the 60-70 employees on this job. This could also potentially cause a high amount of layoff, if it is not a temporary shut down. As for me, I an just hoping and praying that my company will find somewhere for me to go, other than the unemployment line.