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How rapidly can we transform your nice little college town into something unrecognizeable?
Posted on 12/6/18 at 5:32 pm
Posted on 12/6/18 at 5:32 pm
In Fayetteville, the answer continues to be "pretty damned rapidly".
So, the city is forwarding a bond proposal to the public which includes $30 million for the development of a "Cultural Arts Corridor" ("a promenade! a canal!")
What this essentially will be is parkland, promenades, public spaces, (currently perfectly good parking lots) connecting Dickson Street, the Walton Arts Center...
(recently renovated and expanded) to a new performing arts center called "Theatre Squared" (a 50,000 SF professional live theater facility)
...to the currently undergoing expansion public library (soon to be really nice homeless hang-out because we're turning into Austin)....*breathe*....
....on down the line with a new woodland park including "'canopy overlooks" and elevated boardwalks, opportunities to "interact with a stream" (i.e watch homeless people bathe, because liberals)...
to the emerging "Mill District" (actually kinda cool)
and recently announced $40 million "Windgate Art & Design District", affiliated with the University. (mercifully, no real renderings yet).
It's like God, or a Walton (same diff) formulated a froo-froo tornado to cut a 1/4 mile swath through the center of this city.
The magnitude of the cultural investments happening right now, or soon to be approved is mind-boggling for a city this size.
Kinda pissing me off right now, to be honest. frick all this shiny and new shite. But will probs be totes awesome when its all done.
So, the city is forwarding a bond proposal to the public which includes $30 million for the development of a "Cultural Arts Corridor" ("a promenade! a canal!")
What this essentially will be is parkland, promenades, public spaces, (currently perfectly good parking lots) connecting Dickson Street, the Walton Arts Center...
(recently renovated and expanded) to a new performing arts center called "Theatre Squared" (a 50,000 SF professional live theater facility)
...to the currently undergoing expansion public library (soon to be really nice homeless hang-out because we're turning into Austin)....*breathe*....
....on down the line with a new woodland park including "'canopy overlooks" and elevated boardwalks, opportunities to "interact with a stream" (i.e watch homeless people bathe, because liberals)...
to the emerging "Mill District" (actually kinda cool)
and recently announced $40 million "Windgate Art & Design District", affiliated with the University. (mercifully, no real renderings yet).
It's like God, or a Walton (same diff) formulated a froo-froo tornado to cut a 1/4 mile swath through the center of this city.
The magnitude of the cultural investments happening right now, or soon to be approved is mind-boggling for a city this size.
Kinda pissing me off right now, to be honest. frick all this shiny and new shite. But will probs be totes awesome when its all done.
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Posted on 12/6/18 at 5:49 pm to wmr
Goin through the hipsterization phase? 
Lexington already has its share of that, Indianapolis back home is getting just as bad (though they already had a canal)
Never been a fan of urbanization in any form (including hipsterization) but I guess its better than ghettoization.
Lexington already has its share of that, Indianapolis back home is getting just as bad (though they already had a canal)
Never been a fan of urbanization in any form (including hipsterization) but I guess its better than ghettoization.
Posted on 12/6/18 at 5:56 pm to thatguy45
Hispterization is great.
Especially post hispterization and everything gets expensive and exclusive so the actual hipsters then can’t afford it.
See: Williamsburg
Especially post hispterization and everything gets expensive and exclusive so the actual hipsters then can’t afford it.
See: Williamsburg
This post was edited on 12/6/18 at 5:57 pm
Posted on 12/6/18 at 6:00 pm to I Bleed Garnet
The little town Im from is going through the same stuff.
Weird specialty coffee shop opened up, along with a pizza place called, this is no joke, twoguyspies (pretty gay name)
They got a fake small town bar to replace the old one that the owner closed because he was retiring. The place didn't last long
Then on the other side of town we were finally forced to get a walmart
Hipsterization is a plague, as is wally world
Weird specialty coffee shop opened up, along with a pizza place called, this is no joke, twoguyspies (pretty gay name)
They got a fake small town bar to replace the old one that the owner closed because he was retiring. The place didn't last long
Then on the other side of town we were finally forced to get a walmart
Hipsterization is a plague, as is wally world
Posted on 12/6/18 at 6:16 pm to thatguy45
I went to a super Wally World today, you know, the type with three entrances; home and garden, market, and pharmacy. The normal Wally World I go to is little and only has one entrance
shite was great. It was like wonder world.
shite was great. It was like wonder world.
Posted on 12/6/18 at 6:20 pm to KSGamecock
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the type with three entrances; home and garden, market, and pharmacy
That sounds like ebola in building form
Posted on 12/6/18 at 6:24 pm to thatguy45
Meh.
I wouldn’t say it’s a plague at all.
As I’ve said. They go into bad areas, clean it up.
Then the yuppies come in and buy everything and send them elsewhere
Every heard of Bed Stuy? Yep not that dangerous anymore
I actually think NYC in terms of number of homocides last year was less than New Orleans
I wouldn’t say it’s a plague at all.
As I’ve said. They go into bad areas, clean it up.
Then the yuppies come in and buy everything and send them elsewhere
Every heard of Bed Stuy? Yep not that dangerous anymore
I actually think NYC in terms of number of homocides last year was less than New Orleans
Posted on 12/6/18 at 6:27 pm to I Bleed Garnet
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I actually think NYC in terms of number of homocides last year was less than New Orleans
Guess that's a plus.
My issue with hipsterization is when it cleans up areas that didn't need it. Just makes things, weird and wrong.
Posted on 12/6/18 at 6:29 pm to thatguy45
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Guess that's a plus.
My issue with hipsterization is when it cleans up areas that didn't need it. Just makes things, weird and wrong.
Ahhh gotcha.
Yea I’ve never experienced that.
Where I’m from (NC) i know it’s been going on in Durham.
Durham is a far better place to live than it was 10 years ago
Posted on 12/6/18 at 6:33 pm to I Bleed Garnet
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Durham is a far better place to live than it was 10 years ago
Same could be said for Indianapolis. Hipsterization down town has been helping to clean it up, still wouldn't walk around on the west side at night, or during the day for that matter but maybe thatll change
Posted on 12/6/18 at 6:47 pm to thatguy45
Not gonna lie had no idea.
Always thought Indianapolis was like Minneapolis or St Paul
Always thought Indianapolis was like Minneapolis or St Paul
Posted on 12/6/18 at 6:58 pm to I Bleed Garnet
Its not as bad as it used to be, and I don't think it ever reached Chicago level bad. Gary I think has a higher crime rate now actually
Still, theres drive bys and such on a semi regular basis, never good to see
Still, theres drive bys and such on a semi regular basis, never good to see
This post was edited on 12/6/18 at 7:06 pm
Posted on 12/6/18 at 7:04 pm to thatguy45
FTR IBG is a hipster. He wears tight shoes, glasses without lenses, and sports a handlebar mustache. We’re friends on Snapchat and I seent it.
Posted on 12/6/18 at 7:06 pm to KSGamecock
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IBG is a hipster. He wears tight shoes, glasses without lenses, and sports a handlebar mustache
No V neck, beanie hat, or non blue skinny jeans? Missed opportunities
Posted on 12/6/18 at 7:41 pm to thatguy45
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still wouldn't walk around on the west side at night, or during the day for that matter but maybe thatll change
Like down by the children's museum?
That place is kick arse though. Annual membership holder
Posted on 12/6/18 at 8:02 pm to wmr
Good for business.
Posted on 12/6/18 at 8:13 pm to momentoftruth87
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Like down by the children's museum?
Im referring to the Little Mexico portion of the west side. But then Ive eaten in that area before
Children's museum is nice though, went there a lot as a kid
Still mad they took out the log cabins
This post was edited on 12/6/18 at 8:18 pm
Posted on 12/6/18 at 8:21 pm to wmr
Sounds like a cool place for a bunch of gay homosexuals to hang out
Posted on 12/7/18 at 12:45 am to thatguy45
The thing about Fayetteville is that it doesn't need any gentrification. It's fine the way it is. We don't really have a ghetto or any dangerous or poverty-stricken areas.
We have a city govt that at once laments our "lack of diversity" and also promotes this type of stuff that will inevitably only further drive up cost of living.
And Waltons with billions willing to fund parts of anything these socialist frickers can dream up.
I'm a homeowner, so I shouldn't care that much. It's just fricking weird to see massive change through the heart of the little town I love. Keep some of this fricking place authentic, please goddamnit.
We have a city govt that at once laments our "lack of diversity" and also promotes this type of stuff that will inevitably only further drive up cost of living.
And Waltons with billions willing to fund parts of anything these socialist frickers can dream up.
I'm a homeowner, so I shouldn't care that much. It's just fricking weird to see massive change through the heart of the little town I love. Keep some of this fricking place authentic, please goddamnit.
Posted on 12/7/18 at 12:50 am to MaroonNation
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Sounds like a cool place for a bunch of gay homosexuals to hang out
You have no fricking idea.
We used to have a simple Pride Parade. The past couple of years, we have an entire downtown blocked off for a fricking day-long festival/carnival for Pride, and a month of officially sanctioned events---in a town of 85,000.
Fayetteville gay AF.
This post was edited on 12/7/18 at 12:51 am
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