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Has any retail other than the Publix actually opened its doors anywhere in Smoky Hollow? Gotta say, I'm a little disappointed with the street level retail everywhere North of Morgan Street...empty spaces everywhere...
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On 1/16/2022 at 10:24 AM, dmccall said:
I finally went in the Wake County office/court building last week for the first time. I didn't realize that it is essentially two buildings smooshed together. The section adjacent to McDowell (seen in the foreground above) is only a few stories and has its own elevator core. I joked with the help desk about the building's elevators not going to the top floor like some people I know, and he responded that they do ... for this section. haha. @nicholas' photo shows the two sections well.
Yes. One of the two buildings (the old Art Deco one) was constructed as the Durham LIfe Insurance Building....see http://goodnightraleigh.com/2012/05/insurance-building-raleigh-n-c/
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Doesn't thewalkable Midtown plan i( https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR22/MidtownStAlbansTheBigPicture.pdf ) include proposals for new interconnectivity across the Beltline?
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On 12/17/2020 at 11:12 PM, Jones_ said:
Well a single locomotive is about 475,000 pounds and the bridge has to support more than one at a time. An unloaded semi and trailer is about 35,000 pounds. Its like a mosquito trying to break your windshield
and to answer the question about raising the bridge, considering it is 15-20 feet above grade going south from there, it would probably be cheaper to lower Glenwood Avenue going under the bridge. But I wouldn't favor them doing ANYTHING to encourage truck traffic other than local deliveries on Peace west of the RR tracks. If those guys need to get from downtown to Cameron Village, they need to do the Capital to Wade to Daniels or Oberlin loop. NOT cutting through an incipient pedestrian area like W. Peace Street.
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Is it common in commercial real estate in this area to cash out like that halfway through construction? Is this just a financial risk spreading measure?
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17 hours ago, RALNATIVE said:
I drove by the site the other day. The trees have almost cleared and I believe that construction is scheduled to start in 1Q or 2Q.
I just wonder how access to this massive development will work. Currently the only access is St. Albans Dr., which is not exactly a major thoroughfare.
If the developer has the deep pockets to pull this off, hopefully the City Council has the cajones to require them to build a new interchange on 440. St. Aban's is a quick shortcut from North HIlls to the W.F. Road corridor now. I'd hate to see it become a traffic choked nightmare due to failure to impose adequate transportation facilities like the big cluster that is Glenwood Avenue and Brier Creek Parkway
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does this project include the parcel on the other side of the railroad tracks (reachable by a bridge where Kinsey Street crosses the tracks)? For our history folks was this area part of the poor areas that occupied the bottomlands along Walnut Creek from here southward, and the NCAE and Chamber buildings were built as part of 1960's slum clearance? I noticed the other day that there are some very old and large trees on the NCAE property that appear to far predate the building itself...
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does this mean the old turntable will be demolished? Knowing Raleigh, the answer is probably yes, because this company clearly doesn't have the imagination to actually incorporate interesting site features into its building...
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THat row of white rectangles along West Street...Please tell me those are going to eventually be the glass windows of the Publix!! Surely they wouldn't make the grocery store a dark windowless cubbyhole...
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https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/wake-county/article239498378.html
Like Baldwin's comments about the design. The rather blah Marriott was a huge missed opportunity. Downtown continues to lack a signature hotel, and it is a major drawback. Don't think this smallish parcel is going to be the answer, though...
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more on the Millbrook milldam (does someone on this site work for ABC11?)
https://abc11.com/5189028/?fbclid=IwAR3Z6FmslRvIYXKpFgqyl1wMZWM9FX3vdBGcp15P4iGxFB7ftqbpmLeX2H0
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I guess this explains why noone wants to build condos anymore? Redevelopment well nigh impossible because someone always wants to be the holdout?
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IF this is the site just across the extension of Johnson Street, they have cleared the land. Things slope upward from Peace Street, so it will start off about a story higher than Phase 1. Given the drab one story 1960s institutional stuff that was there before, it certainly is an upgrade even if it eventually ends up shorter than 40 stories. I think something that high will never be built, because I don't see how the financials work on that given how many vacant parcels there are downtown. (i.e. unlike Manhattan, for example, land is cheap and plentiful in downtown Raleigh)
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here is the n&O article on the Days Inn replacement:
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article224297220.html
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This sort of hulks over the extension of Harrington Street. Unless they do some nice things at street level here and where they leveled the old commercial strip, it will pretty much destroy any pedestrian character to this stretch of Peace.
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22 minutes ago, KJHburg said:
from a Triangle Business Journal article subscriber
Triangle developer Loden Properties has acquired the former Days Inn at 300 N. Dawson St. and a neighboring parcel for $6.5 million, with plans to convert the half-century-old building into a 57-room hotel. Called the Longleaf Hotel, renovations at the building will pay homage to its mid-century modern design, according to Loden Properties.
If anyone can take a picture of this existing motel as I can not picture it. This is a great plan and these retro motels are the in thing now look at the one in downtown Durham the Unscripted I think is the name.
THis is the old fleabag motel at the corner of Lane and Dawson/McDowell. Last thing on the left before you pass Babylon heading north out of downtown. Noticed the construction fence up earlier this week. That restaurant has been at least four different things over the last 10 years, none of which made it. Was a sub place for the longest and most successful run.
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On 10/25/2018 at 6:03 PM, Jones_ said:
I wish I could say for sure. I did see silt fence going up but not demo fence. I had assumed they were all goners.
but if you were going to tear them down, why go to trouble of carefully removing all the windows from the structure? Is there some strange demolition rule about plate glass?
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On 2/13/2018 at 2:24 PM, Jones_ said:
Those were purchased separately by Kane. I would consider those the last vestige of Smokey Hollow too, along with maybe the Cardinal and the white house across from it (they are on a hill but close enough to the Railroad to possibly be railroad housing). Melrose Mill, Pine State, Google, Raleigh Wine Shop, Rockford...all that stuff is Smokey Hollow vintage and I'd call it part of the extended neighborhood. The original Smokey Hollow houses were late 1800's early 1900's in age, so Rollins/Watkins came like two generations after that original buildout. At the moment, no plans have been announced for them. I am hoping at least Rollins gets reused...it's a sweet 1940's warehouse with a clerestory down the center. Great beer hall or something like that.
FYI, in the three old buildings right by the new bridge, the windows have been removed from the Rollins building and a construction fence is going up around them (which indicates renovation rather than demolition, doesn't it? Hopefully?) Have plans been announced for this strip? These have the potential to be the most attractive retail streetscape on the stretch of Peace between Glenwood and Salisbury/Halifax (granted, that isn't exactly a picturesque stretch...
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so I guess Two Glenwood Tower footprint will take out the funky restored Art Deco gas station at corner of Hillsborough and Boylan? 10 years from now, Char-Grill and Snoopy's will be the only damn funky thing left on that whole side of town. (National Art Interiors building is notable and potentially funky, but completely wasted as boring office space and high end retail...
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Seeing as this is out of town investment portfolio guys, I don't have high hopes for anything noteworthy on this site, unless Apple comes swooping in with an anchor tenant proposal for a landmark building...
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Looks a little bland, but then again, there is nothing of architectural interest on this block other than the cool restored service station. A shame that one will go, and the run down former stations on the two other corners of this intersection remain.
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Just selling off some of the surface parking lots that sit empty after 5 and on weekends would probably earn enough money to pay for a new campus somewhere else. The worst to me is the block where Meredith used to be, and the block that has the Haywood House forlornly on one corner. An obscene misallocation and misuse of prime real estate...
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I thought I had read at one point that this developer had assembled the entire block bounded by Glenwood, Boylan, Morgan, and H-boro. What is fate of nondescript suburban style office building (you can see it behind One Glenwood in photo five posts up) at Boylan and Morgan (across Morgan from Moonlight Pizza).
Edit: per wake county property site, "Glenwood Two LLC" at same address as "Glenwood One LLC" owns the office building and the restored service station in front of it on corner of HIllsborough and Boylan. Other property owners own the stuff in the middle of the block. One is an address in Wilson that looks like a family inheritance situation, and the other (615 Hillsborough St.) is some property company out of Winston-Salem and that parcel is only one they own in Wake County (land speculators?)
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22 hours ago, Jones_ said:
My guess is the first two building levels won't need direct access to the deck..lobbies, meeting rooms etc. Third floor and up must be guest rooms with those hallways having doors out into the deck.
Thanks. When I reviewed earlier in thread, I saw that there is a hotel in front of the deck. Boy, it is really going to be shoehorned in there... I know city frowns on pedestrian "habitrails" above street, but will there be a tunnel or something...that could be sort of a dangerous at grade street crossing to One Glenwood proper...
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There are two projects going on right now along Lake Wheeler. The Kane one is at bottom of hill where Lake Wheeler hits S.Saunders. But at top of hill, they have cleared a large area that used to be tiny houses. I assume that will be some kind of higher density housing...