This sounds like an opportunity for @OakCityDylan and his 
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I do need to get some updated aerial shots from around town. Maybe today is the day.
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Thank you for pointing that out!
Just weird nothing was done between progress court and railroad. Either they will have to remove a lane (which would not be an issue considering the low traffic there) or remove those trees they just put in to fit that sidewalk.
Anyone know of there are plans for the property across from Hyde Park? The building on Whitaker Mill looks like it was just torn down.
At this point, I think all commercial development should be required to include Sidewalks. In the first phase.
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Old folks complex getting bigger. Don’t understand why they couldn’t still put the building on the sidewalk and retail on the bottom floor fronting Whitaker and Bernard. Big opportunity lost for a neighborhood scale retail node.
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OMFG… what a damn WASTE OF SPACE!!!
Sidewalks are required, but the city allows them fees-in-lieu to prevent lots of disconnected sidewalks everywhere. The rates are set such that the city can use them to build sidewalks/bike lanes/transit shelters in one go.
In this case, I’m not exactly sure how they managed to push off sidewalks to phase 2, but I assume it followed a similar kind of process. One full sidewalk is much better than 2 separate sidewalk projects.
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Can’t even fill the retail across the street. Vacant retail all over downtown proper with a lot to come online soon. Demand has to come back. Don’t see it coming back anytime soon . Inflation kills small businesses.
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Does the city have any sidewalk projects going on at all? Doesn’t seem like there is any attempt at all to connect any missing pieces. Went to the Raulston Arboretum last weekend with the baby, had to park down the street and walk down Beryl with a stroller. It blows my mind that we can’t even have complete streets leading up to a major attraction that is packed with children.
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Interesting subdivision for a huge 2.42 acre plot in Hayes Barton. Looks like being setup for 17 cottage court homes? By Concept8.
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YES. SUBDIVIDE! THOSE! LOTS!
Edit: this is a new one
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Think that was the old site of the Masonic lodge. This solution was the only way the neighbors would be ok with the land purchase. More density that was there before.
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This one is two blocks to the west of that one. Into the heart of the rich people mansions which kinda makes it so surprising to me.
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More million+ dollar townhouses.
Not to be all reaganomics, but if someone is able to move from a $700,000 property to a newly built 1.1 million dollar property, allowing someone else to move up from a $450,000 property up to $700,000 property, in theory it could create an entry level home for sale
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I mean the whole neighborhood is 1 and 2 and 3 million dollar homes… sooo… yea.
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Unless those townhouses are bought by folks who relocate from the Silicon Valley.
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Then they’re not buying and renovating the $700k homes, or buying in North Raleigh and commuting everywhere. The demand for expensive homes is there regardless, and this is a dense way to do it in a neighborhood where no one’s getting displaced.
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