The sign on the construction fence is “Tower 2 at Bloc 83”
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Downtown Raleigh streets were named after the Colonial judicial districts of NC. Fayetteville, Hillsborough, New Bern, and Wilmington all wanted to become the Capital City but they put it in the middle of the state. Each street pointed in the direction of its namesake.
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I know that is why I say ‘still’. It should be changed but that’s just my opinion.
Why on earth change it? It has meaning and history. I can’t even imagine the fight over what to rename it, and we’d probably have to settle for Main Street because every other proposal would be “problematic” to someone. Just look at the lame names Wake Co. schools get - all because it became to difficult to find people who everyone agreed deserved the honor.
@R-Dub Truist must be the stupidest name I’ve heard of, especially for bank. We don’t have a lot of accounts with them, but we will be moving them.
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My parents call it Fayette-nam.
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As much as I am inclined to have a negative bias toward Fayetteville as a city, I don’t connect my bias about the city itself to Fayetteville Street. I don’t know why not.
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Halifax Street was the fourth not Wilmington.
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And give “Truist” time, they’ll change it again on there way to becoming the national bank that they “Truly” want to become…
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Wilmington and Edenton just snuck in there!
No Charlotte Street?
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Thank you! The state’s first constitution was adopted in Halifax December, 1776.
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Welcome aboard @chase.
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Welcome to the party Chase!
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@RaleighFollower I call it Fayett-nam was well. When Broughton played down there in the football playoff in the last century, our chant was “Drop the bomb on Fayett-nam!” We lost. I hope we don’t upset the sensitive folks on the board who scold us every time we use a nickname for towns.
@John Same for me. I don’t really associate the street and the town at all.
@Kanatenah Chicklett was one tavern at a crossroads in the era, lol. So thankfully no Charlotte St. Besides, the last thing we needed was a street named after a dang English king’s wife!! Talk about a royalist hotbed of names!!
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Grand opening in 2 days. New planters and tables and chairs out today. Working hard to meet that deadline…
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Rgmedd is correct, these core streets are historic names established when the city was planned in1792. The town of Hillsborough had shortened it’s name to Hillsboro in the 1830s (perhaps too English?), then in 1962, back to the historic spelling. Raleigh’s street name followed suit. Greensboro, Goldsboro, Pittsboro kept the revised American spelling.
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Fencing is down. Crews out finishing up the ground level. Will probably try to visit inside and look around tomorrow.
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Well, that outdoor seating sure looks like an afterthought. I hope that there’s more to come, or they just wasted a perfectly good ice skating rink location.
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My mother was always pointing out that the street signs had both spellings of Hillsborough depending on where you were. This was the 70s, so I assume they were in the process of replacing them. Thanks for the info @Buck