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If you can believe it, we have only 8 weeks until the final season premiere of One Tree Hill. EVER! I don’t know about you, but I’m rewatching the series right now because 1) it’s FINALLY on Netflix 2) nothing else is on TV and 3) because I really want to go into season 9 with how and where it all started fresh in my mind.
In honor of the end of one of my favorite shows, I’ll be counting down the best moments from the first eight seasons every week until the season 9 premiere on Jan. 11. So let’s get started with the first season! In no particular order…
Click to watch!! ‘One Tree Hill’ Finale Countdown: Best Moments From Season 1 | Ology.
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#GoodbyeRivercourt I know that nothing lasts forever, but this hurts my heart. At least we loved it for so long … To whomever owns the property, thank you so much for letting us have it for nine wonderful years. It was a magical place.
The hit television series “One Tree Hill” may have left a lasting impression in the hearts of Wilmingtonians and worldwide viewers alike, but one thing it will certainly leave the Port City in the coming days is a bigger glut in downtown office space.
More than 16,000-square feet of potential office and retail space will be for the taking as “One Tree Hill” actors, crew members, directors and their cash say farewell to the Port City.
The new vacancies come at a time when greater Wilmington’s commercial real estate sector, while improving, remains sluggish. And moving new tenants into new office space remains challenging as the region tries to pick up the pieces after the Great Recession and real estate crash.
Downtown impact
According to Wilmington Downtown Inc. — an organization that works to promote and recruit new businesses to downtown Wilmington — there was 130,000 square-feet of vacant office and retail space downtown reported this summer.
John Hinnant, executive director of WDI, said year-to-date that total has since decreased by 37,000-square feet; however, it doesn’t include space currently being vacated by the “One Tree Hill” production.
“We are beginning to see a lot of start-up growth here,” Hinnant said. “Our concerns are people in professional services — the engineers, landscapers and designers — who have suffered because of the recession. They may have had an office downtown and now they work from home because they can’t afford to rent office space.”
Hinnant said despite the pending vacancies, occupancy of many of the ground-level properties is growing in occupancy.
“It’s getting people in the floors above those spaces that’s going to take a little more time,” he said.
Via : End of ‘One Tree Hill’ leaves downtown with empty feeling.
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It was more than just a patch of concrete.
For the past nine years, fans of the locally filmed drama series “One Tree Hill” have made pilgrimages to the maksehift basketball court in Battleship Park across the river from downtown Wilmington.
Now, the “river court,” as it was known on the show, is being torn up.
Crews worked on the court Monday, cutting through the concrete.
The show finished filming its ninth and final season a couple weeks ago, so there was no more use for the court. Fans, however, hoped it would stick around as a memorial to the show they loved. A petition was started but time was not on fans’ side.
It’s unclear how quickly it will take crews to remove all traces of the court from the park, and rainy weather could interrupt their work. So if you’ve been hoping for one last pilgrimage to the court, you better hurry.
Via : RIP River Court: “One Tree Hill” landmark being removed – We Love TV – Wilmington Star News – Wilmington, NC – Archive.
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Here’s a link to purchase the official “Evening with One Tree Hill” Shirt! Go get one now
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Hilarie Burton is set to guest-star on Castle at midseason, and the actress tells me the gig has her excited for multiple reasons — one being that she is “definitely a fan” of ABC’s Monday-night cop drama.
Burton also points out that her Castle episode will play host to a One Tree Hill reunion of sorts, seeing as Tom Wright — who directed several episodes of the CW sudser — will be calling the shots as she plays Kay Cappuccio, a Kardashian-like reality star who is famous for… well, no discernible reason.
“He is one of my favorite One Tree Hill directors, so I’m really looking forward to working with him again,” Burton effuses. “And this time playing someone so radically different!”
Via: Castle casts Hilarie Burton — Season 4 Episode 13.
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Looks like they are planning to tear the River Court down. A petition has been put up to help stop it. If you interested in signing click the link to read more!
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