A tech company has moved to a larger office in Downtown Raleigh. and it’s looking to fill the space with new hires. Atomic Object managing partners Taylor Vanden Hoek and Ryan Abel were moving furniture into the space over the weekend in preparation for employees to start at the new office at 150 Fayetteville St. in the [former Wells Fargo Capitol Center] owned by Highwoods Properties. The app developer, based in Michigan, has 12 local employees now. The plan is to grow to more than 30 people in the next few years.
I’ve heard mixed things about work life balance there but I’m still excited for it as a programmer. Of all the software shops in the Triangle they seem like they do the most interesting work (it’s an agency).
The main thing that would lure me away from WFH is a nice team culture and an office downtown. Well, that or me losing my job in a recession and scrambling.
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I don’t disagree that churches parachuting into DTR cause problems. Not all of those churches come from North Raleigh. Some churches in North Raleigh are very conscious of the downside and provide resources to the agencies that are better positioned to meet the needs.
As far as I know, the largest weekday free-meal program in the heart of DTR is the Shepherd’s Table Soup Kitchen. They’ve been at it for over 40 years, and it’s run by a downtown church. Should they be closed? I think Oak City Cares only does weekend meals.
I’m talking about the churches who show up in Moore Square & back up their mini-vans & distribute food…the trash is everywhere afterwards. I’ve witnessed it directly. You can’t stop the downtown churches from doing it (even if i wish they would). Wake County & Raleigh provide food & folks can go to those places for meals. I’ve seen the lines down the block for the Shepherd’s table as well.
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Yes, I’ve seen that. If the City prohibits the practice (and if it can do so legally), I wouldn’t object. As for the permanent operations, only some are in the DTR core… Shepherd’s Table, Raleigh Rescue, Emmaus, and the Salvation Army Shelter for Women with Children. Over the years other operations have been moved out of DTR, the classic example being the old Ark shelter that was across Cabarrus from the former Amtrak station. Oak City Cares and the South Wilmington Street Center are a mile south of the DTR core, and I believe part of the rational for OCC was to shift clients out of the DTR core. Urban Ministries and Salvation Army are a mile north, and those are relatively new facilities for operations that used to be closer to the core. Family Promise, the Helen Wright Center, Interact, Cornerstone, Haven House, Healing Transitions, and New Beginnings are not in the core and some of them don’t provide food anyway. Dispersing the points of service evenly throughout Raleigh presumes there is a transportation system that’s better than GoRaleigh.
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Not sure if this is the right feed but the new Forbes billionaire list was just announced.
Why they include David Tepper & MJ is baffling. Neither live in North Carolina so why they are on the “list” is unexplainable.
Virtually ALL of the billionaires that actually live in North Carolina all reside in the Raleigh area. The one charlotte usa guy is probably getting cut from the list as his company continues to drop in value.
SO…we have 6 billionaires now…all of whom live in the Raleigh area & NONE care about supporting professional sports…not one???
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In the articles defense, it says MJ and Tepper have NC connections, not that they live here.
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Meh. Imo, it’s kind of hard to put a lot of stock in those billionaire rankings. I’m sure nearly all of them have numerous houses around the country/world and aren’t particularly tied to any particular area other than for sentimental reasons. I mean Rick Hendrick was born in NC, is worth over $1B, and has most of his operations based in the Charlotte area. Rob Kauffman is supposedly worth a good bit more than Hendrick and I believe is based in Charlotte (he flies very far under the radar - information about him is extremely hard to come by but people who know more about him say he his worth is considerably higher than Hendrick). Marcus Smith is another NC native who is now worth about $11B and his company is also based in Charlotte (edit - Google brought up the wrong person…however his now late father Bruton Smith was a billionaire on Forbes and Marcus took over Speedway Motorsports which is supposedly worth a couple billion).. But none of those count?
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Hendrick doesn’t make the list for starters. Nor do any of the other people you claim from charlotte usa. This is FORBES list & nobody from charlotte usa ever makes the list.
Your claim of Marcus Smith (whoever that is) would make him wealthier than Jim
Goodnight who has been the richest North Carolinian for 3 decades. Tim Sweeney is the only person to have challenged that ranking (also based in Raleigh)
ALL of the other bilionaires DO, in fact live in the Raleigh area. Gillings does half-time in Europe but the rest have a home base in the Raleigh area.
Raleigh just added 2 more with the Holding siblings.
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I have to say that I love that the richest man in NC is affiliated with NC State and not Duke or UNC. 
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It is amazing that he was to overcome that as it is usually a critical obstacle.
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You mean not starting with daddy’s or pa pa’s money?
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Lol. Not sure what that has to do with friendly banter between opposing college fans.
Duke lost, let’s all just rejoice this fine Sunday morning.
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Gonna drop me from 1st to 2nd or 4th in my bracket tho. Sigh. Now I just hate them more lol
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Wait what? You didn’t understand my friendly banter? Bless your heart. 
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Enjoy your many billionaires who are unable/unwilling to do what Charlotte’s plebeians have done multiple times.
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I will give you that. the charlotte usa napoleon complex suffering crowd have definitely been better & getting taxpayers to fund sports complexes. My big question though is whether charlotte usa is a ‘global, world class city’…yet?
I think that a lot of Triangle residents have their money and time tied to their favorite local ACC team. I konw that I do. It’s way more important to me than pursuing pro sports.
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Charlotte “USA” will always be more world class than any Raleigh napoleonite will ever give it credit for, but never as “world class” as actual Charlotte residents would like for it to be…and Raleigh will always be the more insecure city as long as its fans keep parroting these ridiculous labels and aspirations that nobody in Charlotte has.
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