Interesting thought! Maybe a developer could build a tower with a couple floors of residential and a bar inside the “antennae”?
Famously, this is what they did with the Chrysler Bldg - raising the spire almost in secrete to become the tallest building till the Empire St, another building with an enormous spire, because tallest. I am going to assume that when this qualification was written they didn’t have radio/tv/cell towers in mind, but decorative and more structural spires, like something you could anchor a blimp to. 
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At least those spires were truly architecturally significant to their respective buildings!
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Construction cam happening for this?
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We should have a contest for the first person to find a webcam for this project… Not sure what they’ll win, but it needs to be something nice. 
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A cam would be awesome. With 3 towers to come up in this small spot… I’m not aware of such a dense project in Raleigh yet, so this would be quite fun to watch.
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rent a room at Holiday Inn and mount a cam in window looking over site. Would work until 301 gets higher than Holiday.
(edit 12/8) maybe someone could do weekly visits to “Skye Tower Restaurant” at Holiday Inn (HI) for pictures of 301 until there is a web cam. (?) I Had to check to make sure it’s still open, I do recall nice views from there, but that was um many years ago, like when was a HI the first time around and was in High School .
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They’ve been sinking rebar and pouring concrete deeeeeeep into the ground for weeks now. That’s going to be a hell of a foundation!
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I am pretty sure they were setting the base of the tower crane when I just drove by. The light turned green so I could not grab a picture
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Traffic can wait. This is more important
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That’s incredible if true! It means we could be vertical soon!
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Do we know if this will be poured concrete for the full height or just for the parking section then switch to steel for the office part of the building? If the second, once they switch to steel frame it will go up really fast.
I’m not sure but I feel like it will be concrete all the way based off what I’ve seen with Kane’s towers at Northhills and the Dillon and FNB tower but I think it would be cool if they switched to steel.
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Wow it will be crazy if this goes vertical before two Glenwood!
I would like to propose a small project this group take on - will take about 5 mins per person 
Can everyone (that cares to) please email brad.corsmeier@cbre-raleigh.com, ed.pulliam@cbre-raleigh.com in order to ask them to please add some type of artwork or screen to the side of the parking deck? I was in Durham yesterday and really appreciate the amount of public art being added to the sides of parking decks. What a perfect canvas, and what a low cost way to add a sense of place.
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Images from Durham:
This stuff is not hard, I think it’s important our community show developers we care about these types of details and creativity.
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I really wish someone would do a living wall
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