Raleigh photos

[CSP]

I Love it !!!!

[Flash]

I've finally got around to releasing some new photos from the past month or so:

Also check out the new design of RaleighSkyline.com

[romec]

Wow, look at all those cranes!

Beautiful pics as always. I really like the fish eye of the Sheraton and the shot of the CBD from the northwest, it really shows off some density.

(P.S. checked out the redesign and the site is looking great)

[dmccall]

Looks great, Matt! Can you tell us what camera and lenses you use? Also thanks for calling it the "Netcast". The way Apple is getting snippy about the use of the word "pod", I hope the Zune puts the smack down on iPods forever.

[Justin6882]

LOVE the picture of Mecca - thats awesome!

[carynative]

Great photos. I love the sunset shot with the church steeple and the one with the old restaurant and the Coca-Cola stuff, (is that the Mecca?) Great job as always.

[romec]

I managed to get downtown (briefly) and snapped a few pics of some projects under construction.

Convention Center

Site1/Hotel

Palladium Plaza

Quorom Center

RBC

Bloomsbury Estates

222 Glenwood

[paletexan]

These are very exciting pictures, and it looks like you got out of your car a couple times to take them !

[willrusso]

Next in my series are photos of N. Raleigh -- an area well known for its out of control sprawl. Enjoy.

We'll start with my apartment complex. Yes, I live in suburbia LOL.

Capital Boulevard.. Wake County's planning disaster.

OH MY F**KING GOD!!

These cookie cutters are cutting my eyeballs. Subdivision off Buffaloe Rd.

High voltage cancer houses LOL.

Around Wakefield Plantation...

Living in the "Hills" of Raleigh

What's with this cell phone tower imitating a pine tree. I didn't know loblolly pines could grow to 150 feet tall. LOL

Some neighborhoods off Glenwood Avenue and Creedmoor Road.

Cutters Cutting

Raleigh is surprisingly hilly.

Descending into the Crabtree Valley. The mall sits at the bottom.. .and they wonder why it floods.

Glenwood Avenue

Crabtree Valley Mall

Triangle Town Center Mall

The Beltline...look brick sound walls :-)

Falls of the Neuse Road

Your tour guide...

[dmccall]

I'm offended.

[ChiefJoJo]

[Pillsbury]

Let me just say that is a lot of traffic. I'm going there in a couple of weeks and I"m officially already getting nervous about the traffic!!!

[Jones_]

Let me just say that is a lot of traffic. I'm going there in a couple of weeks and I"m officially already getting nervous about the traffic!!!

[NCMike1981]

I used to get nervous about the traffic too but now I just get annoyed, not sure which is better...

[DigitalSky]

Awesome photo tour!!! A nice persepctive into suburbia, cookie cutters and big boxes. Also I hadn't seen Triangle Town Center in a while so it was good to see that.

[thewhister]

[DanRNC]

My feelings also. Too bad our public officials do not know any better and our perception of suburbia is normal that we don't question living in it

[ChiefJoJo]

^ at least Meeker and councilors Stephenson and Crowder live ITB. I grew up in southern North Raleigh, or midtown Raleigh, and I really hate that garbage developers are throwing up over in NE Raleigh and elsewhere. I know I've become a DT snob but it's hard to imagine people wanting to live in a cookie-cutter neighborhood like that.

[tjoad]

http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/512765.html

Here's an article about proposed development on the new stretch of 540. While there is a mention of pedestrian-friendly features by the developers, I get the feeling it will be Brier Creekish . Btw, where's the photo of Brier Creek?

[RaleighRob]

Let me just say that is a lot of traffic. I'm going there in a couple of weeks and I"m officially already getting nervous about the traffic!!!

[GRDadof3]

Great pictures! It's good to see that suburbia is alive and well and flourishing all over the country.

This is a strange contrast. Can I get a garage for my house?

(not bad, garages in the back?)

Or can I get a house for my garage?

(let me guess, Pulte?)

[thewhister]

http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/512765.html

Here's an article about proposed development on the new stretch of 540. While there is a mention of pedestrian-friendly features by the developers, I get the feeling it will be Brier Creekish . Btw, where's the photo of Brier Creek?

[DanRNC]

People love living in these neighborhoods which I don't understand. At least plant some trees so in about 100 years there will be little bit of shade.

[ncwebguy]

The pics are good, though all taken from inside a car LOL.

Where is the Wal Mart in the picture? Plantation Pointe? I was at the TTC Best Buy on Saturday, but didn't think to go one block further north.

I often use Atlantic as a good Capital Blvd. substitute. Or Raleigh Blvd, though you have to use Brentwood to get back on to Capital, where the "boulevard" turns into Skycrest. Or take New Hope, which is often congested as well.

The area from Brier Creek to Capitol is "North Raleigh", a lot bigger than the whole city was until the 70s or 80s. The Highwoods stretch just north of 440 between Atlantic and Capitol (with the RBC Centura building) looks like a Buckhead wannabe, but that never happened there.

As shown in the pictures, some builders don't offer garages as options, while others force you into a "snout house". Neither has behind the house parking via garage or alley. Do people really like to show off what they're driving, or do they not care enough to ask for alternate layouts?

It is interesting that time has passed the Mini City area (and points south) by, as development is now at 540 to the north, and along the Glenwood corridor. Is there no incentive to make the Starmount shopping center near Mayflower/Adventure Landing/Cookout better?

I noticed a month or so ago that the shopping center with the Burlington Coat Factory just south of the US 1/401 split lost its Applebees. The Vincents Pizza reopened elsewhere, Dicks moved to TTC (though that was probably a temp location), etc. Is that a "bad" area or just unlucky?

[wfdude]

Great pictures, but definately scary ones! I grew up there, and I'm so much happier now in my cheap, old apartment ITB/downtown.

I despise the lack of uniqueness in the homes and shopping centers and the traffic ridden streets. I try not to venture to N. Raleigh very much.