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Butner's potential has been slowed because of sewer capacity that impacts Stem and Creedmoor as well (effectively halting growth of Creedmoor). Butner still has some capacity but not much. There's a plan in the works to expand the system to the tune of $100 million that will surely open the flood gates. Butner is located only 15 minutes from RTP and 10 minutes from downtown Durham and Duke. And, Granville County is arguably one of the prettiest counties in the Triangle. There are 600 additional units approved in Butner on hold until the sewer system project is completed. Butner has about 9K now, with these 900 + 600 and the additional interest being expressed there, it's not hard to imagine Butner doubling its population very rapidly.
Butner's long-range plan is to capitalize on it's location on Falls Lake and to maximize development in areas with existing infrastructure. Butner is located on both sides of I-85 with three existing freeway interchanges with a fourth planned. check out butner2040.com
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2 hours ago, KJHburg said:
here are some color renderings of the Vela ^^^^^
Dang K'burg, you are fast. I was just about to post this news. thanks for putting up the images! Did anyone else notice the view from one of the units is of Charlotte?
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8 hours ago, Take2 said:
This will be nice as I am now driving to and from Durham each Friday. That one high-rise above the treeline looks so lonely. Like..sooooo lonely.
I have noticed people love to honk their horns in Durham.
I am honked at at least once every visit and each time I think how that can be somewhat of a death wish in CLT these days...
There is one as tall under construction with two others coming...
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I regularly write the Council about projects. They need to hear from people who are concerned about the viability and vibrancy of cities.
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8 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:Someone has to pay for all of Durham's public programs, but their message is "we don't want rich, white people " in our city. Durham doesn't want a diversity of people of different incomes and backgrounds; typically this kind of attitude is more prevalent in wealthy suburbs, but for a city with as many problems as Durham to be so unwelcoming is sad. If Durham weren't in the middle of the Triangle, it would be falling over backwards to attract investment and people. I get the affordable housing issue but Durham has too many other problems with its infrastructure (its streets and stormwater facilities are a disaster); crime; schools, parks, etc., that it desperately needs the kind of tax revenue that more wealthy people moving here will make repairing and improving possible.
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Don't get me started...
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It's past mid-2022...
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Awesome! More density downtown, where it belongs. The more we act like our downtowns are sacred places that can't change, the more sprawl we'll have and less access to opportunity for anyone without a car.
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Came across information about the land area of US metro areas. In the national narrative, the growth of NC (and SC) are lost to the news people because we are so multi-nodal. Florida and Texas are also multi-nodal and the growth of the cities in Texas especially, deserve national attention. However, Tennessee, Georgia, Washington State, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, among the fast growing states have one dominate and rapidly growing city. The Census definitions don't help outsiders see it either. Raleigh-Durham should be one metro; Atlanta, GA is near nearly 3 times the land area of Charlotte (8200 sq. km). If Charlotte's metro were 22,500 sq km it would include Greenville, Spartanburg, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and Hickory and the population would be around 6,100,000 -essentially the same size as Atlanta, Roxwell, Alpharetta, Athens.
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA 70,612 Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ 37,725 Albuquerque, NM 24,042 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX 24,029 Tucson, AZ 23,794 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA 22,498 Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO 21,616 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA 21,480 Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX 21,388 Bakersfield, CA 21,062 Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV 20,439 St. Louis, MO-IL 20,366 Salt Lake City, UT 19,901 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI 19,779 San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX 18,941 Kansas City, MO-KS 18,793 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI 18,638 Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA 17,311 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN 16,320 Tulsa, OK 16,237 -
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On 9/7/2022 at 4:29 PM, rancenc said:
Profile on Raleigh's downtown construction boom.
It will never cease to amaze me how little attention NC gets in the national media.
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On 9/11/2022 at 5:46 PM, AirNostrumMAD said:At 925k, Charlotte is catching awfully close to surpassing Jacksonville FL in population.
When, if ever, does Charlotte pass the 1 million mark?
Also interesting...
Combining North Carolina's population of 10,439,388 and South Carolina's of 5,118,425, the Carolinas have a collective population of 15,557,813 as of 2020. If the Carolinas were a single state of the United States, it would be the fifth-most populous state, behind California, Texas, Florida, and New York.
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On 9/7/2022 at 8:40 AM, SydneyCarton said:
I don't really like the design, but it's better than having a huge parking garage.
Love that it's mid century modern. More buildings in downtown Durham is great.
4 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:There goes my support for the Carolina Theater.
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A disaster for the city and neighborhoods around it.
I hold the far-left neighborhood vocalists and a racist City Council responsible for this project missing all of its potential.
Not everyone in the community shares the opinions of the Community Association and we aren't being heard. We all want more affordable housing and to stop sprawl eating away at our rural open space and farmlands but, there's a thing called the law of unintended consequences. I have been a city planner for over 30 years but my master's degree is in landscape architecture. I have fought to end sprawl and soul-less places for my entire career. What I see happening in Durham is bewildering and it starts with a fundamental misunderstanding of cause and effect. What are community expectations? We want to stop sprawl, we want more affordability housing, we want less automobile dependence, we want better access to opportunity, we want safer neighborhoods, and we want to protect the environment.The way to achieve these things is to encourage more, not less, development in areas of Durham that are already developed. The cost to develop in Durham coupled with the cost of construction is driving development away from the core (where it should be) and out into less-regulated areas where open space and farmland make development less expensive. This hurts the City, and our goals, by siphoning tax revenue away from where it's most needed and can do the most to help people. Instead of a project adding to the City's revenues and helping to pay for more of the services and infrastructure we need, lots sit vacant or underutilized.We bemoan the loss of trees in the center of our city at the expense of forests outside of it. Instead of a transit-supportive city, we are perpetuating automobile dependence, which by the way, for low-income residents is an additional burden of approximately $9000 a year. Instead of working with developers in a spirit of building commonality, we treat them like the enemy. Instead of partnering with the developers to subsidize affordability housing, we demand they shoulder the burden of our demands solely on their shoulders. When they walk away from a project because our demands become too onerous, we are left for years and decades with empty lots and dilapidated buildings effectively cutting off our noses to spite our faces.The only issue I see getting much attention from the Association is the redevelopment of Northgate Mall. What are we doing to make Roxboro Road more bike, pedestrian, and comfortable for transit users? Why are we OK with the City not working with NCDOT to make improvements to the street to make it more useful for all? You want "affordable retail" and a grocery store? Roxboro Road is filled with empty buildings that are basically inaccessible and contribute little to the City or residents. Instead of fighting a developer, what are you doing to make Roxboro Road a place for small businesses to succeed and accessible to people who don't or can't drive a car? You want more affordable housing? Make it easier for developers to build and get the City to subsidize the construction. Because an empty Mall producing no jobs or revenue is so much better than a mixed-use development with more housing? The Walltown Community Association (and the City of Durham's political elite) fail to appreciate the damage they are doing to the goals we share - and we can thank them for more sprawl, less accessibility, more automobile dependence, and less revenue to fund the programs we need to help people in need.If you've made it this far, you should be checking out some articles on the subject of cause and effect and the law of unintended consequences in many professional urban design, city planning, and architecture journals. Here are a few from The Atlantic Monthly:New market-rate development helps relieve pressure on local housing prices.Why Your House Was So Expensive: Material-cost inflation, anti-building rules, NIMBY attitudes, and barriers to innovation have created a housing-affordability crisis.Community Input Is Bad, Actually Angry neighborhood associations have the power to halt the construction of vital infrastructure. It doesn’t have to be this way.
----- Signed, M. CyrIN RESPONSE TO THE EMAIL SENT OUT TO FIGHT THIS PROJECT....f 2019, they would own the entire property save for the old Macy’s, which was purchased, and still owned, by Duke University Health System. In August 2021, Northwood submitted a site plan for the redevelopment of the property focused on a mix of residential, retail, and office space. While Phase One of the initial plan did not meet community expectations, Northwood said they would be open to negotiating around community benefits in Phase Two when they planned to request a zoning change to increase the height limits on the property.What’s at Stake Now?
Now Northwood is back with a new plan, one centered on scientific labs doing research and development and office space. There is no inclusion of affordable housing in this new plan. In fact, there is no inclusion of housing at all. Yet, while they are no longer seeking a height increase (at least not at this moment), they still need to rezone the property. So this Thursday, Northwood is hosting a virtual community meeting as a requirement of their rezoning application. Per the letter that went out to property owners within 600 feet of the mall: “The developer is proposing a rezoning to Commercial General with a development plan (CG(D)) to allow for life science use in addition to office, retail, and amenity space.”
Action You Can Take Now
The Walltown Community Association is calling on people around the city to attend Thursday’s meeting and tell Northwood Investors that if they want to change the zoning at Northgate Mall, they need to fully integrate the priorities of Durham residents. Since December 2018, Walltown has led an effort to design a community-centered vision for the redevelopment of Northgate Mall (the details of our work and findings can be explored in the report, Building a Place for All People: A Community-Centered Vision for the New Northgate Mall). We have engaged well over 600 residents via surveys, focus groups, outdoor presentations, and an April 2021 press conference. In hearing from Northgate’s most proximate neighbors, and from those around the city, it is clear that an equitable redevelopment of the mall property must create connection to the community. Connection is created by an inviting and welcoming space (affordable living, shopping, and entertainment; open and accessible physical environment) for all Durham residents. Our priorities for the redevelopment include:
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Affordable Housing: We want 30% of the housing units on the property to be priced for people at or below the Walltown median income ($37,222 annually).
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Affordable Retail: We want a grocery store that pays living wages and retail set-asides for non-chain local businesses, especially BIPOC-owned.
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Accessible Community-centered Design: We want a community greenspace that connects the property with Walltown park by opening up along Guess Road. We want a dedicated community space, such as a Durham County library branch containing a Walltown history hub.
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Environmental Sustainability: We want enhanced stormwater reduction infrastructure to significantly reduce runoff and excessive flooding in and around Ellerbe Creek.
Remember that the zoning of the property is where we as residents have power. We are not going to concede that power simply because the “market” is providing a lucrative alternative to what we envision as the most just and equitable future for our community.
We must make it clear to Northwood and the Durham City Council that it is a political non-starter to not expand housing supply for lower income residents when the proposed development will exacerbate the already intense financial pressure on renters and homeowners in adjacent neighborhoods, especially Walltown.
Any development that threatens to displace, must balance out the act with housing to replace.
Instructions for Attending Northwood’s Virtual Community Meeting
The meeting will be held on August 25th at 6:00PM - 7:00PM Eastern Time. To attend the meeting by PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, or Android device,
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Go to https://mcadamsco.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_b61zxcl-SsqmyyzluR_dtg to register for the meeting. Registration is necessary as we are required by the City of Durham to have a record of attendance.
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Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to access the meeting.
To attend the meeting by phone, dial one of the following numbers:
+1 301 715 8592 or
+1 309 205 3325 or
888 788 0099 (Toll Free)
Enter Webinar ID: 88676286887
For attendance purposes as required by the City of Durham, individuals participating via telephone will be unmuted and asked to identify themselves including their name and address.
You are encouraged to join the meeting via your computer or smartphone so that you will have access to Zoom Webinar’s interactive features including Raise Hand and Chat.
Per the letter: “If you have questions or cannot attend the meeting but would like further information, please feel free to call me at 919-287-0824 or contact me by e-mail at [email protected]. Patrick Byker with Morningstar Law Group is the Land Use Attorney representing the project and may also be reached by phone at 919-590-0384 or email at [email protected].”
On behalf of the Walltown Community Association,
--Brandon J. Williamshe/him/his919.308.3900www.walltown.net"From beatboxers to beat breakers, like the yellow brick road we go where the beat takes us..."-
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6 minutes ago, RALNATIVE said:
Now we just need an airport designed to accommodate expanded international travel, as well as road warriors like myself (more onsite parking, more gates, better food options, etc.).
Austin, Texas isn't much bigger than RDU but has been able to accommodate LH, KL, BA, VX, AM. I can see a KLM, Condor or Lufthansa, Aeromexico and Aer Lingus doing well at RDU.
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The Icelandair service is so successful it's been extended to January. That's great. I was anxious for this to succeed but suspected it could be a indication that RDU, with so many students, seniors, well-educated people, could easily support more foreign carriers. I hope the success of this service will attract more international carriers/service.
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The Carolinas are kicking it. Besting every state but Florida. No sign of Georgia in the list or Tennessee.
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The media seems pretty intent on beating up AA.
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How alarming is the health of AA?
What is the scenario for CLT if AA fails? Would UA or DL take advantage of the location for a hub?
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On 6/29/2022 at 10:49 AM, kayman said:
All direction of NCDOT comes from Raleigh not district offices. Also Metro Charlotte is split btwn the Division 9, 10, & 12 offices of NCDOT. That's very inefficient as all 11 Greater Charlotte counties (Mecklenburg, Gaston, Iredell, Union, Cabarrus, Rowan, Anson, Stanly, Cleveland, Catawba, and Alexander) should be all in the same NCDOT division or 2 divisions that are aligned with this region.
Another sign, you all should be complaining to your NC State House Representatives and State Senators:
https://www.ncleg.gov/findyourlegislators
If they're not responsive to your requests on demanding more changes to NCDOT then support and vote for their opponent this election cycle on November 8th or the 2024 election cycle.
This is how we fix things demand change and stay on top of our state legislative representation to demand more division based decisionmaking from NCDOT and responsive decisions from the NCDOT leadership.
Being in three divisions give you access to three different possibilities of money. You don't want to be in one.
Try learning about Prioritization and the role of regional transportation planning organizations.
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Remind me...what're the floor counts? Great summary KJH
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What's the delay with groundbreaking? Durham's bureaucracy? Waiting on tenant(s)?
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7 hours ago, Durham_Transplant said:
Wasn’t sure where that news fit best so I posted it in the RTP/biotech cluster thread as well. Major news and a really significant new player coming to the market. The pipeline of major projects in downtown Durham right now is wild:
—Novus residential tower (followed by future phase 2)
—ATC expansion
—Durham Center II residential tower
—YMCA site mixed use two building project
—GeerHouse two building residential project
—Next Durham ID building
—Mixed use redevelopment at the old police HQ site (505 W Chapel Hill)
—Possible project on former McDonald’s site?
Then major mixed use projects at this site and Northgate to anchor the neighborhoods north and south of downtown.
It just too bad it's Durham. The political atmosphere here is toxic for developers. Northgate should have started 2 years ago. The project South of the 147 is is middle of Hayti, the political and racial activists will kill that project.
I'd like be wrong, but have lived there long enough to know that Durham's growth is resented by locals and like everything in Durham, racially charged.
I hope I'm wrong because these are great projects that could help a lot of people rise out of poverty and 8ncrease the inventory of affordable housing.
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Downtown Raleigh's Future
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