200 W Morgan Street

Was just out and about for work and drove through DTR on my way back home. I noticed a realtor sign at 200 W Morgan Street (eastern half of the block with Campbell Law School Building). I’m sure it is nothing at this point, but based on the location (and size - 0.66 acres) of the parcel, I would be amazed if it doesn’t get upzoned and redeveloped following a sale. According the Wake County iMaps, the parcel is owned by Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of North Carolina.

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The current use for that lot is a complete nothing for the urban fabric, especially facing Hillsborough with a surface parking lot. Bring on the changes!

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Hopefully Campbell will buy it. I know they need to expand and they want to be a positive attribute to the “urban fabric”

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Maybe build a new main building to modernize and sell their old lot for a lot of money?

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That could be really nice. Their current building doesn’t really interact with the street - a little quad set up would feel really nice, with the underground parking deck expanded to replace the surface portion of their lot.

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That’s pretty exciting! I would be shocked if Campbell wasn’t in their current building for a very long time, and so I’m not sure that they specifically would have any interest in this parcel, but I am sure that a lot of this size in this location will get snapped up quickly, and somebody will do something really cool here. It looks like it’s already zoned DX-20-UG, so I doubt you’d even need any rezoning here. Somebody could just buy it and start building.

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OR better yet, they buy it and get it rezoned to 40 stories then start building :sunglasses:

Now TBJ has picked up on this property up for sell in the heart of DTR…
https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2022/09/19/hot-piece-property-heart-downtown-for-sale.html

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Nice!
Too bad it’s sandwiched between 2 stroads. Need to get that traffic light synchronization changed on McDowell asap!

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Something to keep an eye on. Zoned DX-20-UG.

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Thought this lot went up for 40-story rezoning? Didn’t pass??

If you are referring to the lot that was slated to have a 7 story apt building but was recently rezoned to 40 this is not that lot.

Nope, I am referring to 200 W Morgan St haha - unless it was rezoned to 20-stories and I’m just remembering wrong.

This lot just recently sold for $9 million to a Chicago based real estate investor. The article mentions that they want to demolish the current building and build a new development. Lot is zoned for 20 stories.

https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2023/06/15/convexity-buys-downtown-raleigh-property.html

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Something reasonably tall in that location would do a lot to fill a big gap in our current skyline.

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20-40 would fill a huge while almost every lot that prime has been zoned for 29 or 40 stories.

ASR-0058-2023 submitted for 20-story residential / mixed-use tower! Project name 201 Hillsborough.

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Sounds like it includes a parking podium! I hope it’s 19 of the 20 stories. There’s never anywhere to park downtown…

I hope they do hidden parking just like they did with 400h