Local "Meth Queen" Emily Wall is back in Mecklenburg County Jail. CP's guess is that this is her 27th arrest and 29th stay at the McFadden Hilton.
Is there not someone who can get this girl some help? I know Black Lives Matter and all that but could someone make an exception? At 30 she's really got a lot of living to do. But it would be sad if she spent it living in crack houses and on the street. Isn't there a judge that would say no release until your clean and sober, employed and in some sort of re-hab program. Or is Charloot just going to join Portland and say oh well its OK if some people are drugies?
This video has been out for about a week maybe longer, so here's that back story as CP understands it.
Over in Myers Park on Brandon Drive lives Gregory Abrams and his wife Jessica. They are from New Jersey via Florida. They've been a thorn in Myer's Park since they started an endless renovation project in 2016.
The home has swelled from 3,200 in 2013 to just shy of 8,000 in 2019 and the construction projects continue.
Literally every square inch of the back 2/3rds of Abrams lot is paved over or built on, creating massive amount of run-off that cascades into the adjoining neighbor's yards.
This run off has repeatedly flooded neighbors yards and in the case of the guy who confronts Dr. Abrams his garage which happens to be home to his 80 year old mother.
Apparently her son the guy in the yellow shit decided to "have a word" with Greg about the flooding and the recent rains. Seems the son a Charlotte Country Day student is the one doing the video taping and can be heard encouraging his Greg to "woop his ass".
Bonus fun: Entry in the property tax records states "discovered improvements" opps, no permit?
A quick look at the county aerials shots and you can see why the neighbors hate the guy and construction has gone on for five years. Look at the mud covered street in the 2018 photo. Finally in 2020 it is done but the run off floods the neighbors yard.
And you can't do that. You are responsible for your runoff as I understand Mecklenburg County code.
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Cedar's Take:
Myers Park is or at least was until now home to Charlotte's "old money" and if you didn't live in Myers Park or Eastover you either hadn't "made it" or you never will.
Those who didn't fit in moved to the Quail Hollow or the Carmel Road areas. As other neighborhoods developed they all tried to emulate Myers Park. And still Myers Park withstood the test of time, the people, the streets and tree canopy the entire area dripped Southerness like a fresh cut honey dew melon.
And then there's the McMansions like Dr. Abrams', you see them in front of Freedom Park the neo classical style gone to hell. The bigger the better and more stuff the merrier to hell with the neighbors.
New York Times reporter Edward Rothstein penned a well thought out story on Charlotte's Levine Museum of the New South. The piece ran in the February 12, 2010 Time but was completely over looked by the Charlotte Observer.
Meckburbia thought it noteworthy:
It is unlikely that anything resembling the impressive Levine Museum of the New South would exist anywhere else. A museum of the New North or the New East would be merely peculiar, but here the term “New South” has a venerable heritage, recalling unrealized hopes and great expectations. There is also much at stake in trying to understand just what the term really means.
It came into use in the aftermath of the Civil War, signifying the changes that had to take place in the Old South. A rural agricultural world dependent on slave labor had to remake itself under the tutelage and dominance of the industrial North. This imposition of liberal modernity and urban life incorporated a demand for social transformation, an urgent call for restructuring the economy and a conviction that the South’s deepest beliefs must be jettisoned. It called for a full-scale reinvention. But there was little follow-through, so in the decades that followed Reconstruction, the process was punctuated by reversions and rebellions. The New South was always contested terrain.
A Charlotte British termed restaurant has been destroyed in a fire this Sunday morning. The location at 810 Cottage Place has be operated under a number of names over the years. As far back as the late 1970's the home has been a restaurant.
My brother even manged the "Cottage" back in 1978. It's longest run was as PropositionXLV. While Fenwicks holds the title for longest continuous operation. Other names that have come and gone Saucy Crepe, Kakies
The building is a total loss, with damages estimated at about $1 million, Charlotte Fire Department Capt. Rob Brisley said.
The blaze started at about 6:30 a.m., and Providence was closed until almost noon.
No injuries were reported in the blaze, which took 60 firefighters to control.
The investigation into the fire's cause is still underway, but Brisley said the fire is believed to be accidental.
Big Ben, a British-themed pub and eatery, opened in 2006.
