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Maybe this will help push the light rail project as well as the RTP transit hub?
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2 hours ago, RiverwoodCLT said:
For $22 Million if they do not build tall, they will loose money on this building to earn a good return on their investment.
I’m not sure, while $22 million is a lot of money in general, it’s not a lot when you think how much land there really is available to utilize.
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One thing that you can count on in Raleigh is let’s do a study! Forget the fact that this will be the third study in almost as many years...Lol
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One Glenwood
One Glenwood
One Glenwood
I think that I have made my point?
One Glenwood is the way that developers see a fast return on investment. It looks an awfully lot like an office building and parking deck built next door that you will find all up and down Six Forks Rd., Falls of the Neuse Road etc. Nothing really special or different as even the height is par for the course. So yeah, I am expecting an office/apt building next door to a 6 or 7 story parking deck.... God, please prove me wrong!
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6 hours ago, ctl said:
Any bets on how long before the new owners apply for a demolition permit?
Not a betting kind of guy, however, I am of the thought that it won’t happen for a long, long, long time...I think that they don’t have a tenet and will bide there time until they do...imho
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Now it’s topped out!
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I think that this building has now been topped out...
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In regards to the future of downtown Raleigh, I was reading an article from Wral’s Tech-Wire that gives the appearance of more talk in the tech world of Google or a similar company buying Red Hat...
And because downtown Raleigh doesn’t have other large companies like Red Hat I think that it would put Raleigh back about 10 years...imho
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Didn’t Dallas TX build an Outer-Outer loop in order to better control growth around Dallas and Ft Worth?
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33 minutes ago, staffer said:
Heard in Charlotte yesterday at BLE light rail inaugural that Raleigh Union Station dedication will be April 27. Also got an email from a friend in Raleigh today with same info. Presumably AMTRAK service shifts there that day. Also heard from two folks in Charlotte that the third Piedmont train will have its first run June 4 (tentative) but no schedule out yet.
Thank you so much for the update!
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3 hours ago, Green_man said:
Random thought... I kinda prefer the smaller more intimate stadium that DC United is building than the ambitious world-class stadium that NCFC proposed...
Smaller footprint would help blend in to an urban network/neighborhood better and allow more adjacent land for mixed-uses.
Hi Green_Man
Great picture, thank you!
But surely you don’t think the stadium in this picture is smaller or intimate than the NCFC proposed stadium? They look similar in size to me...22,000 seats?
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On the North side they have steel up to the sixth floor.... nice addition even if it’s not the full potential.
(Sorry, not the full potential of the site or lot...imho)
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As much as love the Dilion project by Kane, I was really hoping for a design here more like the ones at NH’s...sigh...
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Sad that they reduced this project from 12 to 11 floors. It makes a visual difference in downtown...
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@ DPK
My thanks for the awesome pictures! I have to say that my hands down favorite is the picture which includes the Bull. (Bull-E?)
He looks as if he wants to say, sorry I didn’t mean to get in your shot...Lol
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38 minutes ago, ctl said:
Now the Soleil development at Crabtree (290 condos on top of a Westin Hotel, 40 or 43 stories depending on what you read) doesn't look so absurd.
Not sure what you are saying? Old development rendering or comparison?
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On 1/22/2018 at 8:00 PM, ctl said:
As to whether "Raleigh" effectively means "Triangle" in the context of Amazon HQ2, the CEO of the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce and the CEO of the Research Triangle Foundation say it does.
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article196027419.html
The more that I think about it, the more I believe that if Amazon chooses the Triangle, they will actually go to downtown Durham. My reasoning is that there light rail system is much further along than Raleigh’ s bus system that we’ll be building. Plus Amazon can actually help speed theirs up by being a sponsor? Durham is also more like Austin TX/open, liberal and if I am correct the have enough land downtown to build a large amount of buildings. Just a thought. :-)
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I just read an article in where Amazon’ real estate chief John Schoettler emphasized key priorities for the company’s HQ2 search at an event that was held at Seattle's Sheraton Hotel on Friday. He stated:
“We look to it being a combination of buildings and facilities probably within walking proximity to one another,” Schoettler said.
I am thinking that the Triangle/Raleigh won’t look as desirable from that perspective due to no one specific area in the Triangle region has the ability to have that much space within walking distance?
I believe that specifically in Downtown Raleigh we have boxed ourselves in (pun intended) with “you can’t build taller than” which really limits companies like Amazon and Apple? Maybe the best thing to do is to wait a few more decades and hope that home grown companies like Red Hat etc will start requiring much more space than they do now. Not that I want instant gratification mind you, but just not so much regulation that we’re almost building a wall around downtown Raleigh.
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Did anyone else see the 5:30 news on WRAL about HQ2? Had an extremely small comment that referenced John Kane’s idea to put this project between The Warehouse district and Dorothea Dix Park...very interesting imho!
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45 minutes ago, Green_man said:
The official announcement names "Raleigh". Not Durham, Research Triangle, Raleigh-Durham. Gotta think that means Raleigh proper. My opinion... Centennial-Dix land still makes the most sense to me. Near highway, rail, outdoor activities, and opportunity to create urban campus from scratch.
That land bounded in yellow, is it a real option?
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3 hours ago, ctl said:
Too bad about the loss of the auto plant to Alabama. The Triangle would surely have received from spill-over, even if we shared the benefits with the Triad and Charlotte. I-85 between the two Hyundai/Kia plants in Montgomery, Ala and West Point, Ga (just across the river into Georgia) has numerous suppliers and subcontractors for Hyundai/Kia.
I personally never thought that N.C. had much of a chance as there are now so many auto manufacturers in that part of the country. Maybe other types of manufacturing?
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The “top/pinnacle/crown/x-mas tree/etc at the very top of the PNC building really stands out in a very good way. I especially enjoy the different colors that get added as they look good when paired with the BB&T building as well as the “shimmer wall”...imho
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25 minutes ago, RALNATIVE said:
I was driving down Fayetteville St last week and noticed the construction on the Wahlburgers was nearing completion. Does anyone know the timeframe for the opening?
What space is Wahlburgers taking/utilizing?
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3 hours ago, orulz said:
I think it would be useful to consolidate the rail lines north and south of downtown Raleigh. There are two lines (NS and CSX) to the north which could be combined onto one multi-track alignment as a part of the HSR project. Simultaneously, the line through Dix could be bypassed, with a new line linking it along the Beltline to the NCRR near Hammond Road. This would eliminate the awkward diamond just west of Union Station and near the Wye, and leave a fantastic rail-trail corridor linking Dix in a flat, straight line directly to Union Station and the heart of downtown.
I feel that this isn't too far fetched; over the years, similar projects have happened in Atlanta, Charlotte, Columbia, even Goldsboro - and elsewhere too, I'm sure.Ortiz, that’s a great idea! Maybe you could suggest it to the Dix Park group? I believe that they are taking just these type of ideas?
Charter Square (Site One)
in The NC Triangle
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Thank you!
Now, does anyone know if and or when they’ll get a video cam? :-)