This should make that anti parking deck people happy, not that I’m a great fan of them, just until someone waves a magic wand they are a necessary evil. .
“Plans for phase one also include an underground parking garage”
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Ugh… I now see that demolishing that McLaurin deck is phase 3… oh well will be nice to activate Nash Square.
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Note they do not put a timetable on phase 2 & 3 which opens the door to parallel development cycles
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With the removal of the height restriction associated with 20 stories, it’s easy to imagine these 20 story towers at 300 ft or taller. If the parking is going underground, then the 20 floors would truly be commercial floors. If we presumed 20+ ft slab2slab for floor one, 15 ft for subsequent floors, and some sort of crown, I can’t see it happening under 300ft.
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They should name the buildings after mayors that moved the city forward like former Mayor Meeker. They could name a storm drain for former Mayor Coble
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Actually, I just read the article and I think that this writer did a good job. Not something that I see or say very often… 
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Activating Morgan through here would be great too. Ph III is a bummer. Its like a whole street/section of downtown doesn’t exist.
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Interesting that they’re only expected to design one of the towers so that means that the towers will not be twins but separately designed?
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I think since the next phases are several years away, there’s not going to be a commitment yet.
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In a public project like the civic campus, there can only be confirmation of the design award per what’s been funded. Even if they intend for future phases to be a twin building, or designed by the same firm, they couldn’t say so at this point. Things might change, or the funding might dry up, etc.
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The city put out a call for artists for the new campus.
Spending up to $1mil for fabrication and installation.
https://raleighnc.gov/news/2020-02-03-artist-call-civic-campus-east-tower
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And to think that Tom Fetzer largely built his candidacy for mayor in the 90’s based on outrage over Raleigh spending just over 50 grand for the Light+Time tower.
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Well for the Light+time IMHO they over paid.
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That should be the spire on the new City Hall.
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Yep. It was way ahead of its time. We now have them all over the place. They are called cell towers.
My first thought was a giant Light + Time tower. But then I recalled something about proposals for a new spire on Norta Dame. Something like this could be super cool, especially on a tall building.
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oh my you know who, looks like a space alien, or one Beelzebub span, is trying to eat the cathedral. .
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That was just for inspiration. Please, we want to be careful what we put so close to the county justice center & the old Durham Life Bldg, and triangles, demons and such.
Still, something fluid and reaching up could be very cool, and would give Raleigh’s sky line a signature piece.
How about doing something like the Hive in Hudson Yard’s only upside down.
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Now come on gang, I know it looks awful here, but thing how how a top of a building could be so fluid. It’d could be pretty incredible.