We should paint them all super black. No light reflected, all light absorbed, and therefore no shadows. Also energy efficient for heating. #science
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Just gotta get some of that mid 70s grey/brown tinted glass!
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Raleigh’s own Mercury City Tower?
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i thought there used to be one called office green.
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This rezoning has passed the planning commission today.
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Although this was from before the switch from 10-story office to 6-story residential for building #1, I wonder if this is still roughly the plan for the rest of the site.
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Nothing would better connect downtown proper to the new Dix Park towers + future Downtown south…
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Wanted to share these pics I took from MLK right before it turns into Western- the first pic shows an imposing Mira Apartment building going up that basically TOWERS over Western (despite its short floor-count, it sits up on essentially a cliff overlooking the road).
The next image is moving closer to Mira, where the Park City apartments are currently going up (only crane and top of parking deck is visible for now). Already these two smaller projects are creating a much more urban feel to what was once a defacto Southern downtown border “highway” that, until now, never felt like it could ever become an urban corridor.
Safe to say that once a couple of the planned 20-story towers start going up (and fingers crossed for 40-story towers behind the Mira) - it will easily make MLK/Western feel like another city street rather than a grid-dividing highway as it currently feels like!
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Crane operator and crew were on site Saturday and Monday (didnt drive by Sunday). Hope they got shift differential. Whoever is running this project seems highly motivated.
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https://twitter.com/MetconConstruct/status/1667206872602951687
Woah can’t wait come back to Raleigh tomorrow to see the progress 
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That flyover that @Francisco posted is especially cool. But it really brings home how disconnected this is from DTR, at least currently. It will be interesting to see how it does, and how much pedestrian traffic and changes it sparks.
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Shows the opportunity of urban creep to the South of DTR - this particular site’s connectivity will need its adjacent development to occur and for more density around the southern end of Faye St / MMCPA (Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts), eventually 
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I think the things with the most differences since you left are 400H, the W South St building (plus the condos) by the Fairweather, the hotel formerly known as Chick-fil-A, the North Hills buildings on the original side, and the midtown buildings going up along St Albans/440 on the other side.
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