Quick Update: 7 Story Chancellory dead.
After Trinity Park decided not to support a compromise proposal by the developer, it was no surprise that the original, 7-story plan failed before the Board of Adjustment.
As Kevin rightly notes in his post today over at BCR, the development team shot themselves in the foot, knee, thigh, etc. by either grossly mishandling or engaging in information gamesmanship regarding the hotel portion of the project. And things never recovered after that. If the hotel had been the project on the table, I would cheer the BoA decision.
Preservation Durham president Ellen Dagenhart stated that the defeat of this project, a urban infill condominium project on a surface parking lot, was a victory for the protection of "the fragile neighborhood" of Trinity Park.
We'll see. I think this is far from over, and we'll see what the developer does with this land at this point. I hope for Trinity Park and, more importantly, Durham, that the end result is not a worse project, shoe-horned into the development envelope and designed to spite the neighborhood.
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Maybe Cleveland Holloway and Trinity Park could switch projects? HFNH seems to fit their scale issues and The Chancellory seems to provide a mixed use...
We'll see if Trinity Park residents can live by their early statements, in which they stated that they had lined up behind other residents' determination to shape their own microenvironment - such as the prevention of a bus stop on the south side of Club Blvd.
Will these same Trinity Park residents come out to support the Cleveland-Holloway neighbors, or does the fight against 'incompatible projects' in 'fragile neighborhoods' stop at Duke St.?
Park City has openly threatened all along that if TP residents don't approve The Chancellory then PCD will build something the neighborhood really hates. I think that's one reason there was so much animosity towards them ... no one likes a bully.
Lisa
I agree with you that threatening isn't likely to win converts. I do think they'll build whatever they can 'get away with' on the land that will make them the most money with the least involvement of the neighbors at this point. Maybe that will end up being a good thing for the neighborhood; I hope that it is. I think they're as human as the neighborhood residents, and probably feel like, from their perspective, they wanted to build something good and were spurned. Since they still control the land, we'll have to see how their anger plays out.
GK
Lisa,
Could you please document when and where Park City "threatened" anyone?
Thanks.
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