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Here is the North Hills AC Hotel for comparison. On Glenwood South it will be 125 hotel rooms on the first 5 floors, 25 condo units on floors 6 and 7.
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The Dillon: Kane's first downtown mixed use project
InitialD replied to RALNATIVE's topic in The NC Triangle
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No, just a bunch more suburban crapbox midrises like the SAS campus and the addition Metlife is building along Lake Crabtree.
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Agreed. I work in IT and feel fortunate to work in downtown Raleigh and not RTP. They've looked at it; if you google RTP urbanization they have some articles from around 2014 discussing it which includes adding residential and such as infill. There's a lot of land in RTP that is just surface parking or empty that they can work with but they need to commit to getting commuter rail, cycleway, etc. The office park is a dying anachronism from the 70s and 80s - people today want live/work/play downtowns.
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With ground floor retail, which is a plus!
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The Dillon: Kane's first downtown mixed use project
InitialD replied to RALNATIVE's topic in The NC Triangle
What looked like bricks between the glass windows on the renderings is more of a terra cotta or something. Also, the glass is a lot more blue that I thought it would be. -
Kinda wish we could get Megabus to stop in Raleigh as well as Durham. Also, getting off topic but with the mention of Greyhound, I really hope these capital blvd plans include sidewalks. The number of people walking on the shoulder of Capital has spiked since Greyhound moved.
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Here's a photo from atop the new City Center tower from August showing this construction: Source: https://www.onecitycenter.com/blog/2017/8/31/construction-update-august-downtown-durham-nc
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Wake needs to move on the commuter rail transit plan sooner rather than later. If RTP misses out on Amazon HQ2 the lack of transit will probably be the biggest factor.
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It's got that "shipping container chic" look going, just like the brown metal (it looks metallic?) on the backside of Union Station. Also on the backside of the Dillon apartments, which can be seen very well from the Dillon webcam (https://app.oxblue.com/open/clancytheys/thedillon ). I know it's the backside, but it's still very visible from many areas so I wish they'd used brick all the way around. I guess that new "shipping container brown" is the new EIFS stucco.
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Update: the rest of the scaffolding came down around the NCDNR/NCDEQ (whatever it's called now) today.
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Anybody else a bit disappointed in how Union station looks from this angle? I know the back side, but still it could look a lot better: Photo via https://www.facebook.com/OakCityHustle/
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https://www.onecitycenter.com/blog/2017/8/31/construction-update-august-downtown-durham-nc https://www.onecitycenter.com/blog/2017/8/31/construction-update-august-downtown-durham-nc https://twitter.com/danbock10/status/899236233649455104 https://twitter.com/Mcashion1/status/893088396448608257 There are a few more construction shots here including views of the skyline from atop the building: https://www.onecitycenter.com/blog/2017/8/31/construction-update-august-downtown-durham-nc
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They city or state could use a good land deal to help lure development. Here's a map of all city and state owned empty lots: https://www.google.com/maps/@35.778581,-78.6470454,2347m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!6m1!1s1GigMd1n0cBuEZ2IFT_dhol1DKDc
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Is this the right thread? Can we get it changed to FNB tower as that is what Charter Square North is known as now? Anyway, here are some stills from a video: Source: https://vimeo.com/bogza/review/233667055/59595455e4
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Finally getting some of the scaffolding down around the Museum of Natural History and DEQ. Now they are getting some seating set up outside the Daily Planet. It gets packed at lunchtime and it will be nice having some outdoor seating. A couple of articles on the work to get the scaffolding down and address the falling glass issue.: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article130548229.html http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/under-the-dome/article140316698.html
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RDU is a big asset to the Triangle's bid too, with direct flights to SF, Seattle, NY, DC, as well as London and Paris. While I prefer a downtown location, I could see how RTP would be a good fit for a campus setting, and easily accessible to the airport and Interstate, plus it would be more reason to connect future Durham-Wake commuter rail to RTP.
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The Dillon: Kane's first downtown mixed use project
InitialD replied to RALNATIVE's topic in The NC Triangle
That glass is looking very blue to me. Maybe it's just the light? From the renderings I didn't think it looked quite this blue. Webcam: https://app.oxblue.com/open/clancytheys/thedillon -
I'll take it. I'd like to see some of these buildings gen renovated and they keep the facade and then add about three levels of residential above one or two floors of commercial but I can see how that might not be practical. It's good to keep some of these older buildings as we've lost so many, including the ones down the block at the perennially-stalled Edison site. .
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The Dillon: Kane's first downtown mixed use project
InitialD replied to RALNATIVE's topic in The NC Triangle
The top of it is either the floor of the 16th floor or the floor of the 17th floor if you skip the 13th. But yeah, why not just make it 20 floors instead of 17? Have the top floor be a fine dining restaurant and bar. With killer views. -
Oh yeah, the honky tubes. They could just close the streets down and go one block east when moving it.
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In my experience, these co-working spaces seem very "fly by night." Is this a reputable one? Seems like a lot of space they will be leasing.
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Did you know that the state owns the little parking lot on the north side of Hillsborough at Salisbury, across from the state capital? That little lot would be a great place for the Seaboard Building.
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Yeah, I hate that building is hidden where nobody can see it. Would be great to be moved somewhere more prominent with more foot traffic and be a restaurant or museum or something.
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I wasn't a big fan of the Metropolitan design so I hope something better comes to this area, more on the scale of 400 West.
