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You can start to see it from a lot of area downtown. Seen from Snoopy's on Hillsborough, with the fence in the foreground for One Glenwood.

One of the biggest driving cranes I've seen is on site, and they have put some scaffolding on top.

Yeah just take the light rail down to Band St or East/West Blvd station. But they have torn down my favorite places in Southend (Common Market, Phat Burrito) for a new midrise tower that's going up. I've lived here in Raleigh since mid-2011 so even I don't recognize Southend Charlotte any more.

Former Charlottean here. Charlotte has Southpark, which similar to North Hills in that office buildings and residential grew up around a mall area. It's on on 485 and is a little closer to uptown, almost as close as NH is to downtown: This is an older photo, there are more midrises now: Plus a lot of dense residential is growing close to uptown Charlotte, in Southend along the light rail line: There's a couple more 10+ building going up here that aren't in this photo. 485, compared to 440, is just so far outside the city so other than a few office park buildings there's no height in developments there. North Hills is like a more compact version of Sandy Springs or Dunwoody on the Atlanta perimeter.

Phase 1 of the North Hills - East evelopment is a five floor apartment building. http://www.raleighnc.gov/content/PlanDev/Documents/DevServ/DevPlans/Reviews/2017/SiteReview/SR-057-17.pdf

Duke Hospital on Wake Forest Road is planning a new 6-floor addition: http://www.raleighnc.gov/content/PlanDev/Documents/DevServ/DevPlans/Reviews/2017/SiteReview/SR-065-17.pdf

Yes, that's the plan. Engineering phase starts now, construction 2020, and opens 2028. The only reason it will take that long is that only so much funding can be spent per year, so they have to drag it out by a few years longer than it would actually take so they can get the max funding each year.

It is because we need more supply. We need to get rid of any zoning that hinders development of more residential units, including height restrictions, parking requirements, a limits to density/number of units and any other zoning that is restrictive.

A few more from the video, including a shot of the hotel: Video

Very true. Like that monstrosity of a deck next to Citrix. Given that's all you see from most angles, I almost would have preferred they just tore down the warehouse and built podium parking like Dillon.

I'm not a huge fan of podium parking so the fact that the parking deck will be adjacent is okay with me and will make the building look better from Hillsborough. I'm usually a height queen but being located at Glenwood, 10 floors is plenty.

The good thing is there are a number of proposals already ready and waiting for a signature tenant so they can break ground, including a couple of site on Hillsborough that have already released renderings plus the Edison site.

The roof for this plaza area looks really huge up close:

Dang I didn't realize how high this steel podium was. It's like 2 1/2 floors tall:

I had heard it was the home of the York security guard who was on duty there at the time but he was cleared. York is pretty terrible - our HOA dropped our contract with them late last year in favor of another provider.

Developer: Sale of downtown Raleigh’s Flythe Cyclery shop opens up opportunities for big mixed-use development it appears the Flythe Cyclery building at 424 W. Peace St. has been sold. Don't have access to the article so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2017/04/03/developer-sale-of-downtown-raleigh-s-flythe.html

Too lazy to do all the searching but I'd be interested in seeing what the profit is on a Skyhouse development vs something like The Link or the Edison. Apparently land prices downtown are too cheep if they build so short. I can't imagine the lifespan on these wood developments being more than 50 years. I'd speculate the thinking is "we'll stickbuild now and in the future when land prices go up we'll redevelop."

Good list. But what really are the plans for the Wake county property redevelopment? I would think nothing on the scale of the unfortunately canceled Lightner project but I have not heard a lot about the land sales and redevelopment.

Cement truck after cement truck all day. They are pumping a lot of cement. Is this whole residential building going to be steel?

Actually Wake GIS lists the commission as the owners of the property. Metropolitan: They are finally getting the backside up so no more blank wall soon: Also there has been a food truck at Harrison and Lane if you are in the area and need some grub.

Charlotte has been doing that at 36th street in NoDa and so far it has taken about 4 years and I think they still aren't done.