@Will For now, any way…
The Flying Saucer’s L-shape property will be interesting to watch if it’s ever redeveloped. I don’t know what would be done with it given its behemoth neighbor.
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Yup. And, the Campbell University School of Law is going to be scrambling to figure out where to park.
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Doesn’t Campbell have an existing parking deck?
@RobertSanderlin Not sure. They are in talks with my church about something. Too soon to tell where that will go.
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They have a parking deck underneath and behind the building. I’ve herd it gets filled up quickly, and some students used the lot across the street.
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Some updates for this project on Fallon’s Company website. Looks like the building will be named “Raleigh Crossing”. Also provides more information on number of units for the future hotel and residental
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These look new too:
https://screenshots.firefox.com/GctxDvDYE68aeksC/www.falloncompany.com
https://screenshots.firefox.com/7R7wf0kCUlzDm6h2/www.falloncompany.com
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Nice, safe “designs”. Nothing to scare the little minds of our current city council…Lol 
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With the obligatory parking plinth/pedestal and street level retail. Yup. Safe! (Affordable housing, perhaps?)
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I love it! Beautiful glass towers of density. This will be so trans-formative for the area. More downtown office, residential, and retail choices.
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They appear to have pulled this down, as the link now goes nowhere. Glad y’all grabbed the screen shots, cause the project does look good. Nothing revolutionary and with the obligatory parking plinth, but golly-gee is Hillsbourgh getting a nice dense cluster!!
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They aren’t asking for a zoning change. The city can’t demand that affordable housing be included because they can’t prevent its development within the UDO.
This is a perfect example of why I said, in another thread, that the affordable housing strategy by the council is neither reliable nor predictable.
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The only thing I’m worried about are the trees. I love that stretch of hills borough with all those massive trees looming over the street
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Yup. My husband would agree with you. We still haven’t wrapped our heads around what will happen to the trees we have on Block 76 which may have to come down.
Agreed about the trees. I like this project and am excited to see it go up, but my wife and I were walking by this the other day and were discussing how nice those trees are and how much we would like to see them preserved.
To my eye, there are kind of two “groups” of trees: one group is on the “street” side of the sidewalk, and the other (lots of crepe myrtles) are on the “interior” side of the sidewalk. I’d like for both groups to be preserved, but I’m hoping at the very least that the ones on the “street” side of the sidewalk will be saved.
Hate to burst your bubble, but none of the trees will be preserved for any of these downtown projects. Too hard to work around during construction, and the land a big tree needs to grow properly is too valuable.
You’d think that the council of no would be more interested in this issue than what happens on a plat of land that was previously an eyesore in the city.
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I want to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you didn’t intend this, but I think your response is a bit condescending. I don’t think I live in a bubble (at least no more so than the rest of us), and I disagree with your conclusion that “none of the trees will be preserved for any of these downtown projects.” As a matter of fact, if you literally look across the street, the Taverna Agora was a major renovation for downtown done in the last five years and they preserved the trees in front of it. Also I specifically mentioned the trees on the street side of the sidewalk, and it isn’t like that land can be built on, so not sure how it is “too valuable”.
I do think there is a good chance all of the trees come down for the 301 Hillsborough project, but I also think that would be a shame.
I don’t want to make a big deal out of this, but I would ask you not to dismiss someone’s reasonable thoughts out of hand with a snarky comment.
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I don’t think he was trying to be condescending, I thinks that is just the way he posts. As far as the trees go, I think it’s easier to keep the trees on a two-story renovation than it will be for a 20-story building. I think the trees are as good as gone unless they are specifically required to preserve them.
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