@dtraleigh I know you moved this to the W. Cabarrus topic, but I actually thought the CAM Block had a separate development, right? Didn’t it just go up for 40-story rezoning too?
Maybe I’m crossing wires, so disregard in that case!
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It wasn’t necessarily recent but prior to Feb '20 the DX-40 request was approved. I’ve heard nothing since.
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You could be right but I couldn’t find the thread either. 
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The director of CAM at the time the rezoning was submitted told me that it was being rezoned for future value rather than an imminent project. Not sure if anything has changed since she left CAM and the rezoning was approved.
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A few days ago, CBRE was the listing agent for 5 parcels on the block where CAM is located. The brochure accompanying the listing was quite impressive. So today I go back to the website to post a link, but the listing is no longer there. Was it taken off the market, or do they have a buyer? 
Stay tuned.
The properties in question:
- 324 S Harrington, 333 S West, and 406 W Davie Street owned by Raleigh Warehouse District
Holdings LLC. - 310 S Harrington, and 319 S West owned by Center Line Properties LLC.
- The parcels owned by Cozart and the parcel owned by CAM were not included in the listing, but it did
say that additional properties may be available.
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Might have to do some google digging. I’ve noticed a lot of times CBRE listing ad archives end up on other sites and stay after the listing is done.
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[says “Under Contract”]
I like how the massing study shows keeping most of the existing buildings.
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That angle in the 2nd pic looks like the middle of a huge city!
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This is interesting to me because I hadn’t seen that last render before, but I had thought that part of this redevelopment included rebuilding CAM as a bigger space, integrated into whatever new building will go in its place 
- I am definitely not opposed to keeping most if not all of the current structures (this is the warehouse district, after all) but of all the ideas, a bigger and BADDER CAM certainly was a welcome one.
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wow, the aerial image appears to photoshop out the “End Racism Now” street painting on Martin St.
Is that really controversial??? that’s messed up.
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I wouldn’t read into that. It’s likely that the aerial photography was outdated.
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It’s just a massing study, right?
And CAM could be extended into the tower building - if I recall correctly the MOMA in NYC does just that with a neighboring residential tower.
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Yeah, looks like that area of the street has been blurred.
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Without placing blame or getting political about it, I’d imagine if you’re trying to get developers to buy downtown real estate to build expensive new buildings on, you probably don’t want anything that might get them thinking about the BLM-associated unrest and window-smashing in the shot.
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Thanks for the update!
I mean I get it to an extent but it’s not like it explicitly said “black lives matter” it just says “end racism now”. But for marketing purposes I do sort of get it. Not to say I exactly agree with it…
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Aw, dang - I’m in the opposite camp. The CAM canopy and entry sequence is one of my favorite moments in Raleigh. It’s a modest but beautiful reuse of one of the Warehouse District’s characteristic brick buildings, which we’re not going to have many more of for much longer. And for what it’s worth, it’s one of the only buildings in the Triangle designed by an architect of that caliber (Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa were just awarded the AIA Gold Medal this year – only the 3rd woman to ever do so). I’d just be sad to see it go after such a short life. Kinda hoped they’d end up keeping that corner at the plaza but expanding into a neighboring structure.
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And from what I see here the CAM canopy property is not part of this development.
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Yeah, I know… wonder what led to that change. We’re discussing the old renderings.
Interestingly, I didn’t notice until now that you can see the historic facade on the right side of the rendering, implying that they planned to keep part of the original warehouse portion but demo the front half. But it also seems like maybe these were never solid plans anyway; just studies to show the potential on the property.
EDIT: Does the current owner also own the land CAM sits on? Is it possible they decided to just keep that to preserve it and sell the adjacent land?
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I wonder if John Kane has it under contract? 
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