There were some on the side street of Martin but I still agree with you.
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The limited width of the car portion of the street really limit all events because it’s so narrow. If we remove the asphalt road and make Fayetteville Street basically one giant sidewalk but with bollards (when in “cars allowed” mode) then the event tents could be push further back and we will have more walking space when in pedestrian only mode. It will also look nicer.
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I’m advocating for having the tents being placed back-to-back and the vendors face the buildings so instead of 3 walking aisles like we have today we’d have two. To add more, here’s what I see:
Today:
- People on the western/eastern sidewalks have the buildings on one side and the back of the tents on the other. As you walk down them, the back of the tents offer nothing to you and the buildings sometimes have a shop or restaurant but sometimes have a closed bank lobby or govt building that’s closed to you. This is a lot of “dead space”.
- Then there’s the main walkway right down the middle which is very active with the additional vendors.
“Flip the tent” scenario:
- Each walking “aisle” or sidewalk would have the buildings on one side with tents on the other. This creates active uses from end-to-end, no dead spaces, even in front of the lobbies and govt buildings. The restaurants and local shops would also get more exposure and be incentivized to open up earlier to take advantage of the thousands of people who are walking right in front of their door, adding more vibrancy to the street.
There certainly are better ways to do this but a lot of what everyone is proposing costs money and requires a street reconfiguration, which isn’t happening any time soon. Flipping the tents sounds like a worthwhile attempt to do better. Hey, if it doesn’t work, just change it back no big deal.
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Looks like you didn’t listen to the sign… 
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Oh, I did. There was glass everywhere.
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Same thing happened to the NC museum of natural science on Jones st. The adhesive was defective and they had to close the sidewalk on Jones for months to replace every single one.
Not sure that’s the case here, but could be.
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Glass everywhere again today. I think it was a different window this time and the windows were actually cracking and breaking while seated in the windows. You could actually hear the glass up top cracking and splinting while walking by the building today.
Not sure what is going on. Hopefully it’s not a dangerous situation.
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The reality of a several proxy wars?
Yeah it sounds dangerous AF lmaoooo
I didn’t see anyone working on it. I saw the glass up top missing in a window. Makes me wonder what the plans are for it. I didn’t see anyone working on it around 2 today.
Thermal expansions causes the glass to expand and stress, leading to some cracks. We had this happen occasionally to an all glass building I used to work in. It happened 1 x every 2-3 years.
Seems like a bad or insufficient expansion joints between the glass panes and the frames.
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Today’s International Food Festival.
Also an event at Moore Square, downtown is busy today.
Im a little disappointed there was only one Polish vendor and it was for pastries however.
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Is this tomorrow as well or did I miss it?
Just received a notice that the UNC Health on Fayetteville Street will no longer be seeing patients at the location on Fayetteville Street. Not sure if they’re leaving entirely or if they still plan to use it in some other manner.
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This is sad news. These are the types of businesses we need in DTR. Dental, medical, spa services. Maybe with all the new residents, this will eventually change.
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Quality of Life on Fayetteville Street wishlist: an Amazon Locker. My front door is exposed to the public so I basically can’t ship things to my apartment in downtown without the risk of it being stolen so I often have to ship it to the locker at the pharmacy on Glenwood South.
I’ll have a quick chat with Highwoods to see if they’re interested in putting one at the office tower at City Plaza.
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Not sure who takes care of the big four light towers on City Plaza…the city or the Alliance?
I noticed a few of them have lights not working, and one even had a whole column blinking erratically, like LEDs sometimes do when they get old.
At their age, they are probably due for some good maintenance.
I thought about putting it in seeclickfix but didn’t see a category that would go under. 
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Man, first Arrow, now this – for a brief moment I had a perfect bike-ability setup for pretty much every recurring need, now they’re all disappearing.
Still got my eye appointment downtown… for now.
Their website indicates they’re reopening in September.
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