There’s a good way to settle this height question. Someone go to the bar/restaurant at the top of the Holiday Inn and take a picture of 301 Hillsborough.
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The fact that the Holiday Inn is shaped like, ummmm…, a phallus, and its height is being exaggerated, isn’t a coincidence that’s lost on me.
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Looks like some serious cladding is about to begin! I know this project seemed to be moving slowly but I remembered today that the crane went up in January, while that feels like ages ago I think this is decent progress for ten months!
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I think it’s now at the same level as the Holiday Inn. There’s not many floors left however so it won’t get too much taller. Looks like they’re working on floor 14? 4 more floors to go.
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Such depressingly slow progress, they had to install suicide nets to keep the construction workers from jumping! Like an iPhone factory…
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I love a good tree as much as anyone but I’d fear they’d break up the nice views as they mature if planted in this median. It finally feels like you’re driving into a “real city” coming down Cap now. The tree-lined view of McDowell heading north isn’t that distracting because of the city towering ahead on the downward slope, but it’d kind of suck for this stretch to start feeling like southbound Dawson/S. Saunders. There’s a distinctly “suburban boulevard” vibe the tree-lined median gives off as you drive up the hill once you hit the Western/MLK underpass, imo. I’m definitely excited to see the northern welcoming skyline expand as Smokey Hollow/GWS/Cap District/Seaboard developments continue to rise though 
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I think that if you walked the new sidewalks on that stretch of Capital, you might change your mind. It’s an ugly, hot, depressing walk that doesn’t befit the entrance to one of America’s emerging city centers. Trees don’t have to be massive. Smaller and slow growing trees would be a visual game changer. Just imagine a parade of Dogwood Trees marching down that median in the Springtime. Those trees are particularly striking at all times of the year, and their blossom is the state flower.
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We’re getting a second skyline!
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May I ask how is it that you’re able to take a pic from the advance auto tower? Didn’t think it was open yet.
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I definitely can’t wait until those 2 big gaps are filled in from this angle!
I think 400H (if ever built) and RUSBus will fill in the gap to the west 
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And the new City Hall tower(s) + Nexus/N&O lot will start to fill in the eastern gap!
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My official ranking of remaining tower projects likely to be completed, as determined with no other knowledge and graded by me arbitrarily, most likely to least likely:
- Smokey Hollow Ph. 3
- RUS Tower
- Raleigh City Hall
- Heritage Properties/Calavera site
- NCEA Site
- Creamery Building
- Nexus Development
- Zimmer Capitol Blvd tower
- Highwoods Goodwill Site
- Edison Office tower
… - 400 Hillsborough
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Not a bad pipeline…
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Even I have to admit most cities our size would kill for such a list. Doesn’t include any lower-rise projects (Hotels, Kane Clancy Theys site, Seaboard Station) that would get top billing elsewhere.
I should add:
2.5: 121 Fayetteville
8.5: CAM Martin St. Site
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Are all these developments at least 20 or more floors? If so the is a pretty good pipeline!
If all of those happened this decade, all those who diminish Raleigh would be driven into a panic attack.
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