A new Sprint store is being built on Providence Road, at the former site of Charlotte stalwart Big Ben British Pub & Restaraunt.
Big Ben moved to a new building on South Boulevard, after it burned down in 2010 (Sidenote: I was out there that day, working for the Observer on a story about the fire. The bar staff, though sad, was giving away rescued beer to the crowd that gathered. It was a memorable scene.).
The building at 801 Providence Road, which had originally been constructed in 1905, according to county property records, was a total loss. It was demolished a few months after the fire.
A reader asked me this weekend what is being built on the site, so I looked up the building permit to check. The project "Sprint Eastover" shows a 3,200 square-foot building being constructed on the site, at a contract cost of more than $600,000.
A representative with Lincoln Harris, the site's developer, confirmed that it is in fact a Sprint retail store headed to the neighborhood. The store is set to open sometime in the third quarter.
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Sprint store headed to former Big Ben location
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People still use Sprint?
Awesome! Perfect replacement for a local neighborhood hangout with character...a corporate cell phone sales location.
What a miserable, non-pedestrian use for the site.
Only thing worse could have been a Boost Mobile spot. O well I guess Johnny doesn't live in Eastover.
Yes people still use Sprint..and more and more will now that Verizon no longer has anything UNLIMITED!
Yawn...typical. Eastover needs a bar or SOMETHING resembling a neighborhood hangout now, its been a noticeable void ever since.
And yes 8:06 people still use Sprint, its a lot cheaper and the only major carrier with actual unlimited data. Still don't need another store.
Are retail phone locations staring to out numbering Churches or pharmacies?
You'd be surprised at the growing popularity of Sprint. My friend is a "lowly" salesman at a Sprint retail store and he grosses $50-60K/yr!
**Results not typical for the average Sprint salesman.
Probably based on what they were asking for the price, the only one that could afford it was corporate america. sad to hear no local establishment/hangout for that area.
Who goes to an actual mobile phone store anymore?
How does Sprint fit into this? Click below....
http://Www.myersparkmile.com/
As I said in another post that was redacted by the blog editor, this is a terrible use of that parcel. If the price of the land is too expensive for local merchants, why is it that so many exist in that strip now called the Myers Park Mile. If we are to make Charlotte a truly great city, we need to promote local merchants and their collective entrepreneurial spirit.
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