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  4. The Dillon: Kane's first downtown mixed use project

    in The NC Triangle

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    2 hours ago, Jones_ said:

    Also, I can't help but notice that neither of the apartment building renderings has shown up yet on the north end of the project. I kind of think these are just as, if not more important than the office component since we keep getting beige mega block buildings lately. 

    The smaller residential building on the south side of Hargett is shown in this rendering. You can also see the tip top of the second residential building on the other side of Hargett in this rendering. It looks like they are both the same style, which is kind of lame.

  7. The Dillon: Kane's first downtown mixed use project

    in The NC Triangle

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    I think there are ways to keep the industrial feel without limiting height to 5 or 6 floors. Kane just needs to keep the industrial feel at the street level. Look at Hue and Dawson. There is absolutely nothing industrial about either of those buildings. The Dillon warehouse that Kane wants to redevelop has an awful street level presence on Martin, and the West and Harrington sides aren't that much better. Is that really what people want to preserve? 

  12. Person Street

    in The NC Triangle

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    It looks like something that should be in Wakefield Plantation or Bedford @ Falls River. I saw an ad for these in a real estate new listings email the other day. They are asking $400k+ for these units. 

  13. Downtown Raleigh's Future

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    Ok, there is no more scrutiny than there currently is.  Nothing is going to happen to Boylan Heights and the numerous historic buildings downtown.  As Orulz said, this is barely a change in the development process that people are misconstruing based on the wording of a headline and a map with hypothetical building heights.

    I'm not misconstruing anything. I read the article. I'm not one of these basic people that read headlines then feel the need to comment on them. I think you are the one misconstruing what I'm saying. It seems like you are using the old zoning to justify the new zoning. I'm talking about the new zoning. Under the new zoning, developers can either build to the limits or face additional scrutiny. Yes, the additional scrutiny under the new code is the same approval process we see today. Yes, it will give developers more leeway on 4 downtown streets. But that's it. If a developer wants to build a tower outside of these narrow high rise districts or wants to exceed the height restrictions in the narrow high rise districts they will have to go through additional scrutiny, the same process they have to go through for anything over 6 stories under old zoning, which can drag on for months and months, and will be subjected to the NIMBYism we often see around here.

    It's about future potential. Most developers are in it for the money. They are not going to waste time going through a months long process when they could just build to code and get automatic approval. The cost of land in downtown is not so expensive that they will need to exceed these height restrictions. Until land values become so expensive that it requires them to go higher than allowed we will see very few if any buildings above these limits. But, like I said in my last post, that is probably not going to be an issue, because no developers are proposing anything taller than around 20 stories right now, and there has never been much interest in surpassing 40 stories around here.

  14. Downtown Raleigh's Future

    in The NC Triangle

    Posted · Edited by Euphorius

    This is not what it seems.

    By my understanding:

    Buildings on Fayetteville would have to be approved by council to go over 40 stories. Anything up to and including 40 stories would be as-of-right, with only staff approval.

    Buildings elsewhere in downtown would have to be approved by council to go over 20 stories. Anything up to and including 20 stories would be as-of-right, with only staff approval.

    I understood it to say the 20 story areas are only 2 blocks west of Fayetteville and along the downtown stretch of Hillsborough. And what happened to their idea of stepping down height on the lots in front of Duke Energy Center? If that is still in play, that wipes out 2 of the possible sites for a 40 story tower. 

     

    Call me crazy, but I don't think developers are going to be willing to subject their projects to the additional scrutiny that will come with the special approval process. They will just limit the height of their projects to fit in with these restrictions. Wasted time is wasted money. Something tells me that the special approval process will be viewed as a waste of time by most developers. They would have to be dead set on building in downtown and dead set on exceeding the height restrictions to subject their proposals to the additional scrutiny and delays associated with a special approval process. 

     

    At any rate, I don't think it's something to worry about. There has never been a building over 43 stories proposed in Raleigh, and that 43 story building wasn't even proposed for downtown. I don't see that changing anytime soon. 

  15. Downtown Raleigh's Future

    in The NC Triangle

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    It would be absolutely tragic if Boylan Heights or Oakwood were demolished to make way for towers, but limiting the tallest structures to Fayetteville street seems like shooting yourself in the leg. A more appropriate high rise district would be from Wilmington to Harrington. That's just my personal opinion, though. 

  17. Downtown Raleigh's Future

    in The NC Triangle

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    But 2 of our 3 tallest are shorter than what this would allow, and the tallest is only 38 ft taller than the max allowed in the area designated for the tallest buildings. 500 ft will be allowed on Fayetteville without going through a special approval process, meaning these 500 ft buildings will not get extra scrutiny. They just have to adhere to the city's appearance guidelines. I just read the article again. I was mistaken in saying 40 stories/500 ft would be allowed on the 2 blocks west of Fayetteville. Those 2 blocks are going to be set at 20 stories. To me, this doesn't seem like common sense at all. There is absolutely no reason to restrict 40 stories/500 ft to only Fayetteville. 

  22. 2035 Triangle Regional Transit Vision Plan

    in The NC Triangle

    Posted · Edited by Euphorius

    This rapid rail concept is what has been studied here for 30 years. They're just using a different name to keep from pissing people off about wasting more money to come up with the same plan we've had for decades. Somehow I figured we would wind up back at this plan. All the planning experts here came up with this plan twice, and now Walker is promoting it. That seems to say it was a good plan from the start. This is almost the same plan that sat in Coble's desk for years without even being looked at. The only difference is that it now stops at Highwoods instead of going on up to Durant, which isn't really that much of a difference since TTA had pretty much signaled that they were going to cut most of the N. Raleigh stops years ago when they were trying to whittle down costs.

  24. Triangle in the national media

    in Triangle Coffee House

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    My perception of Charlotte has been formed from being a life long North Carolinian who grew up 45 minutes to an hour outside Charlotte. I've seen and heard the insults Charlotteans regularly hurl toward other cities throughout my entire life. I'm not just basing my perception off petty dislikes or one specific instance. It's been 34 years of hearing Charlotteans talk smack.

  25. Triangle in the national media

    in Triangle Coffee House

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    At least our newspaper doesn't publish such trash as the Raleigh bashing article that the Charlotte Observer printed. There is a reason people in the Triangle are defensive about that. 99% of the people I know in Charlotte are constantly bashing Raleigh. The last time I visited Charlotte was in 2008, and I will never go back. I was walking along Tryon, which was completely dead on a Saturday afternoon, when a woman and man came walking out of the Chamber of Commerce building. They were super nice at first... until the woman asked where I was from. I said Raleigh, and their whole demeanor changed instantly. The woman had the nerve to say "You couldn't pay me to live in Raleigh. It's a dump. I don't know why anybody would want to live there." That was just a snippet of all the things she said. I was flabbergasted, and immediately regretted the fact that I had just wasted my money on hotel nights, restaurants, and entertainment in a city where people have the nerve to say such hateful things to visitors. It would've been different if it had just been some random person on the street, but this was a situation with two employees of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce. Not a good look. 

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