5 development projects the city is voting on today

Here’s what’s on the agenda for Tuesday night’s meetings.

(1) Food Truck Friday/Common Market lot

Photo via Duda Paine/Cousins

You’ve almost certainly heard of this one by now, but Cousins Properties and landowner Gaines Brown plan to take the triangular piece of land at Tryon, Camden and Park in South End and turn it into the headquarters of Dimensional Fund Advisors. That means that Food Truck Friday and the Common Market location that had called that area home have been forced to find new locations.

After an initial outcry, the developers significantly changed their plans to create something much improved for the city.

Agenda stories: Here are the new and improved plans for the Food Truck Friday/Common Market lot and Why the project that ousted Food Truck Friday is good for South End

(2) Apartments at South and Poindexter

There hasn’t been as much press on this one, but Bainbridge is planning to turn a truck parking lot on South Boulevard into 210 apartment units.

This is just south of Good Bottle and just north of the Colonial Reserve apartment community, on the other side of Poindexter Drive. It’s about a quarter mile from the New Bern light rail station.

There is slated to be 1,500 square feet of retail (a smallish space), It could also include a plaza facing the Rail Trail, which runs on the west side of the property.

(3) Food hall in Optimist Park

This is one of the highest-potential projects underway right now. It would largely preserve the character of a historic mill just north of Uptown and turn it into a “food hall” type project with 65,000 square feet of retail and 100,000 square feet of office space. No apartments here.

Agenda story: Highland Park Mill is a development project finally doing it right

(4) The old cookie plant in Belmont

This building is really one of the faces of the Belmont neighborhood on Louise Avenue and is already gaining popularity as the home of Advent Coworking. The rezoning would allow a lot more types of business to locate here, and the land owner already has plans for a brewery, restaurant and coffee roaster.

Agenda story: This old plant in the Belmont neighborhood may soon house a brewery, restaurant and coffee roaster

(5) Massive redevelopment project in SouthPark

Image via The Colony Redevelopment

This is for the 27 acres that currently makes up the Colony Apartments community at Sharon Road and Colony Road. The plan is massive: 1,100 homes, 250,000 square feet of office space, 300,000 square feet of retail and 300 hotel rooms.

The city has worked hard on this one because it would create a lot more traffic for a place already drowning in it. The latest version calls to turn the new apartment community into quadrants, with streets running through it.

Agenda story: Can Charlotte fix SouthPark’s problems in a week?