That’s my friends office window. Forgot to close it before he went home for the weekend. 
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Phase 2 rezoning before the Planning Commission on Oct 10. Assuming to help it sell to a new owner, but there were some rumors about Fallon still wanting to do something here and planning on moving forward. Anyone know anything more?
https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/the-raleigh-wire-service/748/2251?u=guccilittlepig
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Please see 400H thread. Thanks @Nickster
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Yea… ya’ll confused me here… this is on the wrong thread. This is 400 H (as it says on the construction fencing) (Oceans 11 reference there, haha!!) . (301 Hillsborough is the Pendo building) 
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Arrrgh, you are right. My mistake!!
According to our local 
, this rezoning to 40 stories had the City Council public hearing continued this week to the next meeting in 2 weeks. Still want to know if they have a plan to build or just want to help the land sell.
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Still don’t understand how this is even a discussion. Rezone it and move on, are we or are we not a damn CITY? LMAO.
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I have to agree with you here. Just rezone the whole DT area to 60. The city will still be able to shoot down 40+ story buildings because fire equipment, utilities, etc. just take the zoning component out of the equation
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That would be nice but the public engagement process would kill that whole rezoning attempt, as seen with TOD.
With WRAL’s antics the mere conversation or consideration of that kind of rezoning would cause DOWNTOWN residents, with their car-centric and unaffordable housing idealistic mindsets, to go crazy.
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Unless there was no public engagement… Which would possibly have happened with the previous council. Certainly not this one
Yeah I’m kinda in the camp of… we do NOT need “public engagement” on any and every decision the city makes. We vote for people to REPRESENT us and MAKE THESE DECISIONS lmao. Somethings, yes. But something like this (just rezoning all of downtown to 60) is just SO inarguably normal and simply makes logical sense for a rapidly growing city of our size. We don’t need to hear what some ill-informed homebody that has lived in Oakwood and amassed obscene wealth for the past 30 years has to say about it.
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Especially when the city has done an excellent job hiring qualified public professionals as the city manager, planning, and legal teams. Not sure how permitting is doing these days but it’s generally a struggle for cities. Council can rely on their paid staff of licensed professionals, not John Doe from Mordecai…
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Public hearings are legally required for rezonings. Don’t have to do much more than that, but that much is a legal necessity. Public notice, etc. Rezoning without any public engagement at all is not possible. There is no way to do this without opposition hearing about it and having time to organize and go to the media.
I am also of the opinion that doing an end run around the process is not good governance either. Listen to what the people have to say and then stick to your convictions.
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I would like to the rendering for 40 stories
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It would be nice to support this project alll of use team up
i would say the dynamic that people create in opposition to elected representatives is preferable…often one cannot represent the desires of 100 others exactly. the rep may be a newbie to the area, the body being represented may have longer historical ties…and see things slightly differently.
Phase 2 of Raleigh Crossing 40 story zoning passed.
Not surprising Christina Jones was the only nay vote.
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If this was 4 years ago, we’d all be ecstatic. Now I just feel empty inside. Lol. Seriously though, I hope this does lead to phase 2 and not just another wait and sell.
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I got something to add to this it would be if city leaders would be more specific especially mayor!
Most likely just one of the things that developers do to sale their property for more than the original purchase… 