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That would be interesting State and students kind of "own" Hillsborough already, but bet people on Clark Av would have a stoke.
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The Dillon: Kane's first downtown mixed use project
Scotchman replied to RALNATIVE's topic in The NC Triangle
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Wonder how many of these "other companies" are waiting to see results of Apple and Amazon. If Apple and/or Amazon picks triangle area they may go else where to avoid the competition for workers. I know a lot of the A/A workers will be new to Triangle area but due to housing and other limits only so many can move here in a year. BTW love that golden city photo on the news report.
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Maybe the same one that thought could fool people into thinking a fancy house by putting brick on front a vinyl siding on sides and back.
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I have a different view on what to save and not. If a building or site is where something of great importance happened (say Independence Hall in Philadelphia) , or is a good rare example of exceptional design, then save it. A business can move to a new location, as long as not say Hillsboro St to North Hills. The the interior decorations, the people that work for and visit the business is what makes the business. The building does not make the business unless it's something like the fore mention type. To put lot of importance on saving every old building or keeping every business in the same location is a great way to kill a city. It may work in a small tourist related place like say Blowing Rock or even downtown Asheville ,where the whole town/city contributes to the vibe. But for a rapidly growing city like Raleigh, saving every little place that someone wants to save just causes even more sprawl as development that would have happened in center of city gets pushed to suburbs. As for Hillsboro street vibe, it died years ago. JIHO
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Seems the Seems just one screw-up after another. Super expensive "saving of Historic" building that really amounted to just the steel frame. I strongly suspect would have been cheaper and resulted in much more logical less convoluted layout if have just started with clean slate. JMO
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Guess Anacostia/SE DC south of Capital has improved a lot since I last spent much time in DC, which was around 20 years ago. At that time Anacostia river was an open sewer and "white boys" did not walk around on the streets. Then maybe that proposal is to bulldoze and replace everything. Can just imagine the hue and cry over doing that. As for cost, I was actually working in North DC next to Silver Spring. Was there for a long term project and was rented an efficacy apartment across street from office for a year. It was kind of run down but really convenient and cheaper than hotel, but still the apartment cost more than my house payment in Chapel Hill.
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News report out of Denver
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2035 Triangle Regional Transit Vision Plan
Scotchman replied to ChiefJoJo's topic in The NC Triangle
Seems that legislature is intend on killing the golden egg goose(s) that have been driving improving NC economy. My bet is mainly rural legislators behind this. https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2018/05/29/durham-orange-light-rails-next-hurdle-the-state.html -
Story behind pay wall on "triangle Business Journal" about NC League building for sale. ttps://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2018/05/22/vacant-fire-damaged-downtown-raleighbuildings-eyed.html A fire that destroyed a downtown Raleigh apartment complex last year has officially ended the life of old buildings next door that were built and occupied by local government associations, but new development could soon rise from the ashes.
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I thought the same when I first saw it. May just be an allusion or is slanted to make the drain to center drain., rain, melting snow and such, hope not gas.
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The carpenter line is owned by a private rail company ( do not recall which one) and they would very apposed to converting that to light rail. Light rail and heavy rail (freight) can not use the same track and there is a fairly large separation requirement. Only option would be to used heavy passenger (Amtrak style cars), like the Charlotte/Raleigh trains, that are much more expensive to build/buy and run. There would also be a scheduling problem between commuter and freight. My experience with ridding on mixed commuter/freight in DC area was that the freight companies are not all that concerned with getting out of way of commuter traffic if it caused problem with their freight operations. Better bet would be on line along 54 that us owned by state via NC Railroad Company and has a wider right-of-way. Seems there was a study a few years back and to run lite rail along 54 line would still have issues to separation in some areas. Would be nice if could get CH to DTD light rail extended through RTI, to RDU, Cary and into DTR on mostly new right-of-way.
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I think the CEO being whispered about got MBA from Duke, so knows the triangle.
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2035 Triangle Regional Transit Vision Plan
Scotchman replied to ChiefJoJo's topic in The NC Triangle
I see where some people on Ridge Rd are oppose to extending Crabtree Blvd and tying it into Ridge Rd and expanded Glenwood/Crabtree Blvd/Ridge Rd interchange. Maybe option would be to cut Ridge Rd out of interchange and tie it to upgraded Varnell St (been a long time but seems Varnell was kind of narrow last time I went over it) to link to Glenwood. Would make the interchange simpler and still keep Ridge Rd access to Glenwood at north end. If Crabtree Blvd could be extended to Glenwood (connect between Brookhaven/Morehead) on north end could take traffic out of the Creedmore intersection as well as Glenwood interchange. -
I think the Raleigh DOT is being moved and area turned in to park over next year or so.
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Anyone have information on where this is and what maybe be coming to property? From Biz Journal Sisters sell old car dealership property in downtown Raleigh for $3.5M https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2018/04/23/sisters-sell-old-car-dealership-property-in.html
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"May they reap what they spread and find it troublesome to rent"
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Wonder what the status of the AT&T building is? ( next to N&O site) Last I heard it was basically empty. Was build around 1970, +/- a few years, to handle tons and tons of electro-mechanical phone switches and space was never needed due to advances in computer based switches. I'm guessing would have to be demolished being it's mainly just an overbuild concrete box., I seem to recall that was built to be able to support 20 floors of switches.
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7000 mile, low demand (for international routes) is what the 787's are designed for. United flies 8,700-mile LA to Singapore and Qantas just started a 9,008 mile London to Perth using 787-9's. Demand may be in issue, maybe every other day which would allow one plane to do outbound and return 3 times a week. According to a report out a few weeks ago 67 people per day make trip to and from China. A direct flight would pull in some travelers that now drive to Charlotte and Triad for flights. I personally come from Boone even though Charlotte is closer. Trips from Raleigh are cheaper, have better connections (shorter flight time) and I have free parking in Raleigh. One thing that may immediately drive up trip count going to Shanghai (PVG) is Duke University just opened a campus between Shanghai and Suzhou. Google maps 31°25'11.0"N 120°53'31.3"E. But my guess is projected demand for 300 passenger round trips per week to attract a 3 time a week direct flight. Air China is a Star Alliance member as well as United which seems to often have best routing out of RDU for places I go. But all said while I would like to see direct RDU to PVG flights, will be surprised if happens anytime soon.
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"RDU-China nonstop would be good " I would like very much to see a direct flight to Shanghai. I may not be the kind of customer that swings these type's of decisions, I only make the trip once or twice a year, but direct would be GREAT. Are you listening United or other Star-Alliance carriers?
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I kind of expect to see an electronic flashing billboard in the orange square start of a Raleigh times square
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In ref to cary To paraphrase a headline from The Economist from a few years back "A suburb looking for a city"
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Maybe if there are a couple of BIG job projects that Raleigh has good change of landing, make them this offer (if they are big enough). If you agree to come here we will withdraw from the Amazon bid (we may be kind of a long shot anyway). Would it not be better to have multiple smaller (as relation to Amazons forecast (promise??)) than one huge one that maybe 10 years down the road decide that new tech means we do not need you any more.
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If that video is best they can do, write triangle off now. Music sucked, no context and such fast flipping between locations that no time to take in what's being shown. Reminded me of one of the really stupid videos at the USA pavilion at 2010 Shanghai worlds fair. After watching it my Chinese friends where like "what the heck was that about".
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for what is worth, just had a conversation with someone that works in a west cost office of amazon and was told they are strongly looking at locations in SE for new HQ.
