Current status of 301H, 400H, Edison tower

More info from the Site Review Submittal:

  • 20 stories
  • 247 feet building height
  • 136 residential units (82 one-bedroom, 54 two-bedroom)
  • 169 hotel rooms
  • 1076 parking spaces
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How about…

Butter my biscuits…and…“Why Bless your heart!” :wink:

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Is there a chance that the could rezone the block for the later phases to add some height?

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Looks great! It’ll be nice to see more views. How do the separate the residential, hotel, and office portions?

And LOL at the (should be round) Holiday Inn to the right. copy-n-paste error?

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TBJ has an article about 301H now too

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Thanks for the tip!
It’s behind a paywall. Some blurbs:

…to build a massive 20-story complex on the site.

The tower, at nearly 1 million square feet, would be a colossal complex.
By comparison, the Wells Fargo Capitol Center is 551,000 square feet.
…ground breaking in the fall and an estimated completion date in the fourth quarter of 2021. The first phase of the project would total approximately 300,000 square feet of office space with retail on the ground floor…

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Is it just me, or does anyone else think that this is a visual brother of the FNB building on Fayetteville street?

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Given the city of Raleigh restrictions there’s only like 3 types of buildings you can build in DTR. Fat boxy parking deck with thinner boxy office/residential as a hat, parking deck with equally sized and boxy office/residential hat, or parking deck with office/residential as condom around the parking deck.

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nah, the bank of america tower at north hills.

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Thankfully, parking decks have no parking requirements. Forward thinking that city council.

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I was thinking like how Charlotte has “Charlotte’s got a lot” we could do a commercial where someone visits Raleigh and does all kinds of pithy, country Southern sayings like “well Butter my Biscuits, that’s good.” when someone’s having a Big Boss or whatever.

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I would definitely reduce the parking requirement, eliminate the 20 floor limit, and add two new requirements:

1 - Buildings above 6 floors must be at least 50% taller than they are wide on their widest dimension, for at least 60% of their floors.

2 - Buildings in a shared block must have a clear demarcation in style between them.

This should help to eliminate the ‘borg cube’ style we have been seeing.

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“Visit Raleigh, Dammit”

“Raleigh, Weirdly Normal”

“What Do You Have Against Us, Anyways?”

“Cheaper Vacation Than Asheville”

“Raleigh: Yes We Exist”

“If You Die In Raleigh, You Die Free–Just Don’t Look at Our Past…YIKES”

“Stop Being Vaguely Familiar with Raleigh-Durham or Is It Just Raleigh?”

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Just get rid of the restrictions. There’s no rule that they need to be replaced

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I think a width to height restriction is absolutely crucial. Developers have financial incentive to buy whole blocks and build squat boxes to maximize office floorplans, and these are utterly ugly.

Take a look at every building that has gone up in Raleigh after the Skyhouse. This pattern will gradually get worse unless it is blunted right now.

Architecturally pleasing buildings are out of favor these days. Money is the only consideration, not the lasting impact on the community.

Funny how they show 400H but not Holiday Inn. I guess minor touches of BS matter.

This design reminds me of how giant casino complexes in Vegas try to make an entire skyline out of one building.

Definitely has the north hills look.

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This model of development is nicknamed the Texas Doughnut. Here’s a story on it.

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I honestly think that this design is nicer then the other one, mostly due to the curves and stuff that it looks to have!