Yeah we do, a 2 or 3 story sports bar somewhere in this area of town 
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Just found this gem on YouTube:
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Tobacco Road is a few blocks away, why does no one think they exist. Two story local sports bar with character.
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I would still argue DTR is underserved when it comes to sports bars. I have not tried Brass Tap yet, but look forward to it.
Woodyâs and My Way are probably what most folks think of when it comes to sports bars: neighborhood-focused, TVs everywhere, game sound on, solid bar food.
I would contrast that with Tobacco Road, which has a sports bar, but Iâve always considered them a brewery. Same with regular bars that simply have sports on a couple TVs. London Bridge works if youâre a club football fan. But we donât have a ton of diversity in our sports sheds (no destination bars like Sports & Social), and not enough neighborhood coverage (for example, I have no idea where Person Street / Oakwood folks would go).
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Tried Brass Tap. Was good to me. Would go again. It was a bit emptier tonight, but when we walked in, there was about 3-4 tables with âreservedâ signs on. It appears that group never showed up.
The music wasnât bad, but I do feel they are doing too much with the live music and sports bar type feel. I feel like they need to pick one or the other. My only âcomplaintâ is that they did not have bike parking on this side. There is some on Hillsborough Street, but since itâs dead on that side of the street at this time, I wouldnât necessarily want to leave my bike there.
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When I rode by there maybe an hour before you posted, it was full from what I could tell.
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Office tower signs its first tenants (and sometimes you have to break the ice to get some momentum going) From the Triangle Biz Journal today Both on the 4th floor and STV moved from Morrisville.
400H in Raleigh signs first office leases amid market challenges.
STV Inc. and Savills lease 9,500 square feet total.
Retail and residential spaces at 400H are nearly fully leased.
https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2024/12/06/400h-signs-office-tenants-downtown-raleigh.html?utm_source=st&utm_medium=en&utm_campaign=me&utm_content=RA&ana=e_RA_me&j=37749887&senddate=2024-12-06&empos=p4
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IMHO, There wonât be another pure office tower to start construction in downtown for a long time with all the vacancies. This doesnât include municipal building (tax $$) as 400H only got go ahead thanks to the apartments that are almost fully leased while office is just now getting leased.
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While it might be a a couple of years new office buildings will rise again. There is a flight to quality and most firms have already decided how they will go forward. It will be a slow process but new office construction will resume at some point. And my guess it will be Kane to develop something once his portfolio gets leased up.
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My company is âreturning to officeâ in a hybrid way with mostly no assigned spaces, an emphasis on collaborative & event space, no tops down in-office mandate, and is slowly trading suburban digs for more walkable and urban spaces but with far fewer square feet.
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My company is requiring 3 days a week. Theyâve been hitting hard on it. Theyâve also discussed that they will only be hiring people within travel distance to an office.
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My company has been closing offices that werenât highly occupied or werenât updated. There are now lots of employees whose only choice is to work remotely. They arenât asking those folks to move to other locations.
Amazon required everyone back 5 days a week starting today. 50,000 folks back on the road in metro Seattle. Maybe the tide is turning??
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For an entirely web-based company (admin-wise), this move seems⌠backwards to me lmao
Obviously Amazon warehouse and delivery workers are gonna have to be mobile⌠but corporate office admin???
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Remote often lets you hire more talented employees, but most (not all) employees get more done if theyâre at least partially in-office. Itâs a trade-off.
Anecdotally, companies often find that the least productive employees are the ones most virulently pro-remote, so it can be a useful weed-out mechanism as well.
Iâm fully remote and itâs a bit isolating, tbh.
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But Amazon corporate is requiring 5-days a week back in the office, not partial WFH/office - seems overkill for a WEB BASED retailer no??
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I personally think that Amazonâs issue with WFH is that they just spent tons of money 
on their new HQâsâŚkind of like Musk spending $44billion for Twitter (now X) without letting his lawyers read the fine print firstâŚyou spend a lot of money, you better get your monies worth?
Or not, just my opinion⌠
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Agree with this 100%. Had some colleagues that were insistently pro-remote that were also low performers (but also very good at making it look like they werenât). I think Iâd get more done if I wasnât remote, but only if everyone in our company also wasnât remote. Going to the office right now doesnât make too much sense, because itâs only a few people. And, in those cases, I get less done compared to remote work.
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personally, i think that that nature of work should be encouraged to WFH. in the late 90s my dad, a programmer with state govt, could and did clean up some messes from home. just lease a flex space once or twice a month for group meetings and/or meet at the gym or greenway for team walks occasionally for discussion.
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