A century-old home in Myers Park (920 Queens Road) is being torn down, and the to-be-built replacement hit the market this week for $9.5M.
- And an AI video showing the future house certainly made its rounds in Charlotte group chats this week.
Talking points: The renderings of the 11,498-square-foot home include a room with weapons and Batman armor and a waterfall/reflecting pool that conceals a sunken five-car garage.
- Some AI images even show a body of water somewhere between Myers Park and Uptown.
- The provocative design, scale (double and triple the size of many homes along Queens) and questionable AI promos dominated critiques online and in conversations I’ve had this week.
Data show: Roughly 83% of Scoop readers find the AI Batman house tacky.
Readers weigh in:
“It’s ridiculous that these monster homes are going up everywhere in Charlotte and ruining very highly desire able neighborhoods with pretty homes, soon these areas in Charlotte will be for the elite billionaires and untouchable for the upper middle class, people will be forced to keep moving farther and farther from these areas to the burbs, which is quite sad.”
“Excess Excess Excess… totally tired of people flaunting it. You could put 3 families (that are desperately in need of housing) in that home.”
“Ruining the neighborhood. What do developers think? (Obviously have little taste for what a buyer on that street would want to purchase.) Very sad.”
Not everyone is a hater, though. “Just a fun idea,” one reader writes.
Below the surface: This is one of the pain points of a growing city. Homes are being torn down to make way for new projects that often don’t respect the scale and streetscape or character that makes the neighborhood special to begin with.
- We only have eight small historic districts with design protections, including Dilworth, Hermitage Court, Fourth Ward, McCrorey Heights, Oaklawn Park, Plaza Midwood, Wesley Heights and Wilmore.
- So, like or not, projects like this are fair game in most areas of Charlotte
