jtmonk

@I miss RVA I wouldn't read too much into the Raleigh rezoning. In Raleigh, if developers want to construct anything above 20 stories, they typically have to rezone it for up to 40 stories. It's likely that these developers intend to build something within the 20-30 story range. However, due to zoning regulations, they're required to zone it up to 40 stories, but that doesn't necessarily imply they'll actually build to that height.

@KJHburg Damnit, I totally forgot about this meetup. I was right down the road from you guys at Tucker's Tap Yard with the dogs. Hope you guys had fun.

Could it be something similar to North Hills in Raleigh? Maybe like North Hills and Birkdale combined, take the best of both and replicate it here.

While RDU is a focus city for Delta, they only feed passengers to Paris on Air France. American flies to London, Icelandair flies to Iceland, and Lufthansa flies to Frankfurt, none of which Delta would generate traffic for. RDU punches above it's weight for a number of reasons but I think the main reason is corporate support, I believe a number of corporations and universities in the area put money aside for the Lufthansa flight. This is what RIC should concentrate on, drumming up support from local corporations in my mind would be the best bet to land service to Europe. That, along with the new Airbus 321 XLR should give RIC a very real chance at getting service to Europe.

It’s taken from Kane Realty/Mackenan’s RFQ response to the Town of Cary municipal complex redevelopment project. Axios’ article includes a link to a folder where all received RFQ responses are available for view.

Not sure if this is the current proposal but just found this.

That's LA

Correct. In most other states you have state maintained roads, county maintained roads, and city/municipal maintained roads. In North Carolina you only have state maintained roads and city/municipal maintained road. This set up means that NCDOT is responsible for a greater share of roadways than other state DOTs.

You can actually see 6 cranes, maybe even a 7th in the south park area but it's too blurry to make out. There are 4 cranes for the Morehead towers, a fifth at the med school, and 6th is in the tree line next to the med school tower.

This is actually Chicago developers, but I agree that the name change is stupid.

@SydneyCarton I appreciate the pictures. However, some context would be nice so we know what project we are looking at.

St Louis Mid America Airport, Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, Paine Field Seattle, Norfolk International Airport and Newport News International.

Also note that the NCDOT ADT numbers are from 2020 which would be skewed due to COVID. If you zoom in you can click on the dots and look at the previous years. For example, I-77 North of 277 had an ADT of 181k in 2016.

There's a number of reasons for not including a curb. The one I run into a lot is due to stormwater regulations. Sometimes the City's stormwater administrator will prefer ditches as a better means to control stormwater runoff as it's cheaper to maintain and allows water to naturally filter through the ground. Now I always prefer curbing because of aesthetics but if our stormwater administrator prefers ditches I usually go along with his recommendation.

It's more than 5' off the back of curb, the construction fence blocks most of the sidewalk in that picture. However, on the 6th street side you have a section of sidewalk that's 6' wide. It's always been that way but the City is installing separated bike lanes here with a raised curb so you'll have plenty of separation from traffic.