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The part I bolded is perhaps the most apt description I've ever found of downtown Charlotte. When I was there last year, that was exactly my impression. Everything seemed forced, and there was a desperate sort of gaiety to it -- like Hawaiian Shirt Day in some corporate job you despise. It's there in the way that Charlotte has everything a big city is supposed to have, but only because a big city is supposed to have it, not from any real desire or tangible reason for it to be there.
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But Charlotte
is new. Not sure if attempts at constructing additional offices and other buildings etc downtown could seem anything other than clean and shiny. I would think that an attempt to make things look older and perhaps gritty would also come off as contrived and fake looking.
What are they supposed to do? They can't create old. I am not saying that they can't do better, but I also feel that some criticism is beyond their control to a degree.