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re: How rapidly can we transform your nice little college town into something unrecognizeable?
Posted on 12/7/18 at 1:01 am to KSGamecock
Posted on 12/7/18 at 1:01 am to KSGamecock
No that guy got it right.
That’s my buddy Chad.
My GF Sloan is a blogger who blogs about affordable ways to make dairy free shampoo
That’s my buddy Chad.
My GF Sloan is a blogger who blogs about affordable ways to make dairy free shampoo
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Posted on 12/7/18 at 7:39 am to KSGamecock
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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.
I used to know and work with a lot of international students and the first place we would take them when they got to town was one of the Walmarts. They just could not believe there was so much stuff in just one store.
As for Fayetteville becoming hispterized... that has been going on for a long while. I remember when vast herds of hippies roamed Dickson street begging cigarettes off people and stealing the toilet paper from restaurants. Now they are all gone, with only a few lucky survivors shipped off to a breeding colony in Eureka Springs.
Thank God Bottom's Up is still open. One nudie bar, a haven of filth and squalor, single handedly (you don't want to know what the other hand is doing there) fighting off gentrification.
Posted on 12/7/18 at 10:13 pm to wmr
So, where the hell is everybody going to park? Or will cars be banned in order to save the planet?
Posted on 12/8/18 at 5:37 am to Rambler
Parallel park? Or garages?
How most people do it?
How most people do it?
Posted on 12/9/18 at 5:08 pm to wmr
Oxford looks radically different now than it did 5 years ago when I graduated. I went back this fall for the first time in a couple years and it was weird.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 6:27 pm to Rambler
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So, where the hell is everybody going to park? Or will cars be banned in order to save the planet?
That's the $30 million question. Fayetteville city govt seems to envision a future where everything is crammed into a couple square miles of dense development and most people Uber or ride bikes.
We built a parking garage a few years ago that sits mostly empty most of the time. It's behind the Walton Arts Center. Parking costs $5 a night around Dickson Street, both streetside and in the garage. The lot where the "canal" and "promenade" are proposed is something like 270 spaces of parking right now.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 8:07 pm to wmr
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That's the $30 million question. Fayetteville city govt seems to envision a future where everything is crammed into a couple square miles of dense development and most people Uber or ride bikes.
We built a parking garage a few years ago that sits mostly empty most of the time. It's behind the Walton Arts Center. Parking costs $5 a night around Dickson Street, both streetside and in the garage. The lot where the "canal" and "promenade" are proposed is something like 270 spaces of parking right now.
Are you tipping a little bit more for "extras" at Bottom's Up? Are you buying a little nose candy in a back alley off of Dickson Street? Do you get so drunk that your urinate yourself in one of our many fine bars?
If you want old school Fayetteville to exist and thrive you need to support local businesses.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 1:18 pm to wmr
Are you going to show up and raise hell at the proposal meeting or are you just going to bitch about it on the internet?
Posted on 12/10/18 at 2:45 pm to wmr
Most of that seems actually pretty cool to me. I don't enjoy a lot of the architecture that is being chosen, but I like how the WAC turned out, and the Theatre Squared building is looking nice for what it is.
I don't agree with the canal part, and wish they'd build more significant buildings on that lot, but I like the general idea of tying together Dickson Street down to MLK.
The continuing construction of $800k-$1mil infill townhomes in the area between Dickson and the Square is an indicator that all of what we consider "downtown" is going high-end.
I wouldn't be surprised to see one of the relatively recent apartment buildings go condo soon.
It's Fayetteville. This city and region has been remaking itself every few years for the past 20. Get used to it.
I don't agree with the canal part, and wish they'd build more significant buildings on that lot, but I like the general idea of tying together Dickson Street down to MLK.
The continuing construction of $800k-$1mil infill townhomes in the area between Dickson and the Square is an indicator that all of what we consider "downtown" is going high-end.
I wouldn't be surprised to see one of the relatively recent apartment buildings go condo soon.
It's Fayetteville. This city and region has been remaking itself every few years for the past 20. Get used to it.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 2:48 pm to Arksulli
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Are you tipping a little bit more for "extras" at Bottom's Up? Are you buying a little nose candy in a back alley off of Dickson Street? Do you get so drunk that your urinate yourself in one of our many fine bars?
If you want old school Fayetteville to exist and thrive you need to support local businesses.
"Old school Fayetteville" is alive and well midtown. Visit the titty-bar triangle area. Yeah, they knocked down Days Inn and put in a Starbucks, and Bocca has brought in the $$$ crowd nights and weekends, but there's still some unpolished turds, and quite good ethnic food.
For frick's sake, though, even dirty old downtown Springdale is starting the hipster/yuppie transition.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 3:21 pm to Numberwang
Also, here's a layout of the Wingdgate Art & Design District south side of MLK. All of this is along the greenway, so it makes sense to connect it all.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 4:42 pm to wmr
Good and bad. If you own real estate good. If you hate traffic, bad.
Ive never objected to more breweries, cool restaurants and the such but I recognize that urbanization isn’t always attractive for everyone
Ive never objected to more breweries, cool restaurants and the such but I recognize that urbanization isn’t always attractive for everyone
Posted on 12/10/18 at 4:48 pm to Numberwang
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"Old school Fayetteville" is alive and well midtown. Visit the titty-bar triangle area. Yeah, they knocked down Days Inn and put in a Starbucks, and Bocca has brought in the $$$ crowd nights and weekends, but there's still some unpolished turds, and quite good ethnic food.
For frick's sake, though, even dirty old downtown Springdale is starting the hipster/yuppie transition.
I should state for the record I am perfectly fine with the recent changes. As you have said, Fayettevile reinvents itself every decade.
Do I miss the herd of Hippies on Dickson street? Well... I scored some cheap sex when they were there so yes. Do I miss them other then that? Hell no.
Fayettevile 30 years ago looks nothing like what the town looks like today. 30 years from now it won't look anything like it does right now.
I can live with that. Yes, its building up but its still the old Fayetteville funky. There is no where else on Earth I'd rather live.
Posted on 12/11/18 at 9:27 am to wmr
Similar shite is happening to Starkville. Still a small college town but is getting crowded and is almost unrecognizable since I was there 6 years ago.
Looks more and more corporate with less and less uniqueness
Looks more and more corporate with less and less uniqueness
Posted on 12/11/18 at 9:30 am to thatguy45
I hate when hipster crap ruins the good dive bars and local restaurants that had awesome artery clogging food in exchange for craft beer gardens and some organic vegetarian bs
Posted on 12/11/18 at 9:44 am to deltaland
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awesome artery clogging food in exchange for craft beer gardens and some organic vegetarian bs
must be the wrong hipsters.
tons of hipsters around here have made places with very good comfort food. (
There's this "British pub" around here in Brooklyn that makes a ridiculous British version of BLT.
Posted on 12/11/18 at 12:01 pm to wmr
If they turn the WAC parking lot into a park or any kind of greenspace, it will only attract vagrants.
Right now, Dickson St only has a small homeless problem. You bring in a park and Dickson will have vagrants begging for money, harassing female students, and leaving needles all over the place.
The WAC parking lot should be developed as 3 - 4 story office and mixed use buildings with a parking garage on the backside.
Right now, Dickson St only has a small homeless problem. You bring in a park and Dickson will have vagrants begging for money, harassing female students, and leaving needles all over the place.
The WAC parking lot should be developed as 3 - 4 story office and mixed use buildings with a parking garage on the backside.
This post was edited on 12/11/18 at 12:02 pm
Posted on 12/11/18 at 8:18 pm to Ronaldo Burgundiaz
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Right now, Dickson St only has a small homeless problem. You bring in a park and Dickson will have vagrants begging for money, harassing female students, and leaving needles all over the place.
I agree with this. The bleeding hearts who feed those shithooks a few days a week down there are really fricking up the center of town. Hipsters like to refer to Fayetteville as "Fayettelandia", etc. They might get their wish, with all the negative shite that comes along with it.
You can't tell me that park and the woodland stream features won't be riddled with homeless beggars, and we have a city govt that won't dare lift a finger to drive any of them out. They practically invite that shite to town as is.
Posted on 12/11/18 at 8:59 pm to wmr
They’re doing something similar in Auburn. Developers have figured out that there is real money to be made in college towns.
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