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Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

Yeah when you really take a close look at the map this property is literally blocks from East Campus and Trinity Park. 2 miles flat to the center of downtown. The biggest issue with the neighborhood is that it’s been anchored by a failing suburban-style shopping mall for decades. Once that’s no longer the case there’s no reason to expect that this won’t be a highly desirable area in which to live.

This is apparently a rendering of the Northgate redevelopment. It does indeed seem that Northwood is charging ahead with this. Excited to see some demo start to take place.

The silence on this project has been pretty frustrating considering how key that location is to activating a big piece of downtown. The January 2019 N&O article indicated that it was set to move forward but has been crickets since. Obviously COVID is changing many plans but other developers are pushing forward with huge projects a stone’s throw from this site (ATC2, Venable Center, etc). For now we are still stuck with an ugly, nearly vacant office building on a site that couldn’t be more desirable.

Hello, I wrote a guest post for Building Bull City on developments in RTP and I thought it would be good to share here. Many of the projects have been covered here but would just echo the sentiment that this is an absolutely remarkable period for the area. Link