Look I like good adaptive reuse. But a park needs to feel like a park to be a park. The abundance of hospital/campus buildings works against that vision. These had to go.
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Still on the capital projects list to be completed this year. Looks like a potential late June start date.
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Well, I guess that this building is staying put.
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Looks like the mural is of a landscaper riding some equipment. Love the 3D effect! Very realistic!
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This is the Harvey building?
According to the master plan (slide 77), I can confirm it will be preserved (see building 76):
It looks like they’re planning on turning it into a visitor center and office (slide 103):
Side note, I love this master plan. They did such a great job with it.
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Yes it’s on the Harvey bldg which has always been marked for restoration.
+1 on the master plan and also the 10 year implementation plan. It’s so good that you can really tell who hasn’t actually reviewed it. Everything from the 10 year plan is either on schedule or ahead of schedule. The funding keeps pouring in and nothing is value engineered.
So if you feel like Raleigh has too many projects behind schedule, waiting for funding, or watered down, Dix Park should start to change your perspective of what our city is actually capable of.
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Not so much an “insult” as it is simply, “unclear”.
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Oh yeah 1000%.
And there’s your first sneak peek at the new best ground view of DTR. Can we retire the old “money shot” and migrate to this? It’s more comprehensive than the 3 buildings you see in what everyone here calls the “money shot.”
Even without the deck, this angle is already the best view of the full skyline.
I like reading on the hill over there but that’ll have to change with the play area lol. I’m actually not sure I love that last piece. Obv there’s Gipson and I’m just not sure we needed to turn this spot into something kid-centric, but it will if you put a play area adjacent to it. Sorry for the hot take, nothing against kids at all.
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Agreed. Everything doesn’t need to be kid focused - there’s literally play areas / swings within a 2 minute walk of the cottage ---- grab that coffee and stroller junior and baby ethel over to the beautiful Gipson PLAY plaza…Why can’t these attention deficit parents take a walk…
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it’s a massive park. it deserves more than one playground.
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Sure and there’s plenty of space, but outside a coffee shop? Kids are loud. You can count Pullen too if you want, roughly equidistant from the Cottage as Gipson. Feels unnecessary. It’s not like kids aren’t invited lol, there’s a huge field to play in and a troll nearby. I just don’t need a jungle gym next to the coffee shop.
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As much as I agree with you that there needs to be adult spaces in this park too, I imagine that parents are going to want to sit and have coffee as well and not be far from their kids. It’s a different world than when I was a kid and parents tried to avoid their children at every opportunity.
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I’d argue that putting a coffee shop + bar in a beautiful park means parents are gonna be going there with their kids regardless. So having a playground nearby will probably actually help keep kids out of the shop.
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It’s a park. Not a night club. There are going to be kids around. Do you want them running around the patio tables and chairs being rambunctious, or have a small play area nearby?
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Yall I said nothing against kids. But yes, putting a jungle gym here will absolutely turn it into a kid place, inside and out. We have a kid-centric coffee shop in Raleigh. It happens to be the closest one to Dix Park already. I don’t go to Willow House because of it but they’re clearly super popular. They don’t need to mix these concepts here for no reason when there are alternatives and plenty of room for everyone.
That’s a trick question 
But there should always be a middle ground 
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they didn’t say jungle gym tho. they said natural play area. specifically so the adults can do their own thing. those who want jungle gyms could absolutely go to gipson. but that is level 100. should the options be 100 and 0?
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