I welcome it. More interesting retail options are a pleasant addition.
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Gen Z loves thrifting. Along with interior design, we’re generally seeing a retail shift.
Not my thing, but intellectually I like that it’s good for the environment.
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Yep, that’s the place. The address is oddly wrong in Google street view, but I saw it with my own eyes today!
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Maybe one day Raleigh’s companies will try to help our City Center.
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RJR and Hanes built Winston-Salem and are extremely committed to the city. It’s a company town at heart. Means Winston has a lot of cool old buildings and neighborhoods, but also deep post-industrial economic challenges.
We don’t have an industrial heritage like that (which is an advantage in many ways).
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When visiting WS, company town is definitely the first thing that hits you. Basically Durham’s sister city…
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Winston Salem has great bones and there Art District is awesome its actually a real District with alot of cool stores and Art, and we have to also remember Winston Salem was the Business Hub of North Carolina at one point not Raleigh or Charlotte, they had so much power and influence they could get colleges and banks to relocate there, Wake Forest.
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Most of my family lives in or near Winston-Salem. My entire family was all RJR employees (including myself three summers during college). In the late 90s/early 2000s, WS became a pretty depressing place to be. Big tobacco was drying up, a lot of the textile mills were heading south of the border, and the big banks (Wachovia and BB&T) moved to Charlotte. I promised myself that if I ever made it out of there, I wouldn’t be going back. That is what happens when the bigest industries in a city start to fail. Just look at the Rust Belt.
Thankfully, WS has begun to turn things around. I still love my little “big” city, but I’m sticking to my greener pastures here in Raleigh.
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WFU was bought with tobacco money. When I arrived in the early 1970s, our desks had little tin ash trays for our use and some profs smoked during lectures. If you toured the factory next to the football stadium, you got free Winston, Salem or Camel cigs. We went for the free rolling papers 
. Cough.
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Later in the article:
“It was only the second scene in Raleigh that police swarmed to. Early Wednesday morning, a man was shot to death in his home on Carnage Drive.”
Nominative determinism is real. Should have lived on Peace Street.
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Between Madre, Press recently opening, and these shots of Birdies’ forthcoming interior - the design and decor of these new restaurants is setting a new standard. Looks totally next level for Raleigh!
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Is that in the base of the Wells Fargo tower?
Yup. They’re also updating the outside area. This is going to be a really really cool restaurant.
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And another one…
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You sure do pay a lot of attention to WRAL lol
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Just sharing about the vitality of Fayetteville St… People getting shot on it every few days isn’t great regardless of who reports it.
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I’m just pulling your leg.
We went to lunch at Raleigh times today and did a loop around Fayetteville St which was closed to cars for a food truck rodeo. It’s going to be great for the corridor when Diced, Insomnia, and that fancy restaurant are all open in the same block.
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Supposedly the one who claimed to have been shot at may have not actually been shot at. Two of my colleagues were hanging out in the area. Long story short, the person who claimed to have been shot seemed to have their own issues to deal with. Still not great for the street.
I’m kind of confused why this section has been running into issues as of late. Some people blame the bus station for crime in Moore’s Square. The bus station isn’t that close to this section. Others had blamed Raleigh Rescue at Moore Square. There aren’t a ton of bars/clubs in this section so that’s another thing to rule out.
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