This is truly looking impressive!
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Just received an email from the city with an update on the peanut round-a-bout. It claims construction will start Winter of 2025. So assumingly in a few months.
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We talk about more public art in Raleigh, how about we see if we can get the Mr Peanut folks to sponsor a big Mr Peanut statue for this peanut-a-bout? Maybe a sponsorship deal that helps cover some of the construction costs!!
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It’s just under 300 acres. The potential is unlimited.
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Are they referring to this winter or the following one? Technically, “Winter 2025” could mean December 2025
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The project goes to bid on 12/4/2024 and construction is supposed to start in Spring 2025.
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I think that it’s actually 306 acres, isn’t it? I see to recall Dix306 signs during the public campaign to making it happen,
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The amphitheater plans have been scrapped by the Dix Conservancy, and for good reason.
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It was a good reason - to not give the Red Hat naysayers something to point at as a one-to-one alternative option when the Dix Amphitheater concept was never intended to be a competitive venue to Red Hat.
Now that Red Hat is no longer under threat it’s very possible we’ll still see one (further down the line, much lower priority IMO) as conceptualized in the master plan.
Something more like the Cary Downtown Park model, which is still really awesome just a much smaller/less formal venue that is suitable for a park.
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Hadn’t even considered that as a reason, but strategically, it makes a lot of sense. If that was the thought process, then really good thinking.
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I think a smaller “community” amphitheater would be more appropriate at Dix. By “community” I mean mostly non-commercial. Space that local theater groups could use to stage plays in the park, or for smaller, local music acts, maybe high school graduations and things like that.
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Is that just the roundabout or is it the whole Lake Wheeler Rd improvement project? Specifically I’m wondering when the multi-use path is expected to be completed
It appears to be the full project. Here is the project overview on the city website – Lake Wheeler Road Improvement Project | Raleighnc.gov.
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Correct - it’s the full project. This is a bit of an unusual one since it was funded through a parks bond, but it’s a transportation project being led by Engineering Services.
@Mitch I’m not sure when the MUP is expected to be completed, but typically the city can not dictate the sequence of work to be done - that’s up to the contractor.
This is a high-profile project so hopefully the city will get at least 3 qualified and very competitively priced bids. The entire process moves faster in this scenario.
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We already have a Raleigh version of that just north of Hillsborough Street - the Louise Stephenson Amphiteater in the Rose Garden
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i forgot this existed! is the programming there pretty similar?
What programming? LOL (if they regularly use it, they need to advertise more)
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It’s right behind the Raleigh Little Theatre and RLT do use it regularly - in season anyway. Looking back over their schedule from the past several seasons it’s about 1 or 2 productions per year, each of which run for about a week.
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I went to some festival/event here a couple of years ago as well - live music on the stage and I brought a cooler for drinks. Cannot for the life of me remember what it was but the stage does get used, even if it should be used a lot more
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