Haven’t seen this anywhere but looks like Burial is expanding and adding a bottle shop. Anyone have any info?
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Expanding again? They have a bottle shop next door and I thought that space on the corner was for something else?
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I thought it was for longleaf swine, but since that’s not happening, bring on more room for beer!
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Expanding into long leaf swine original spot. Burial beer space was small they needed the extra space
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Just talked to the GM Sunday night actually and was informed of this development! Renovation construction is underway. Nothing super crazy or interesting to add, it will indeed be more Burial bottle shop space!
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Looks like aa big house
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We discussed this a couple of months ago but I forget what thread. It appears to be 4 units accessible from East St and another 4 in the back accessible from a side access street next to the pink house. I haven’t looked at it in a minute so not sure if it’s more apparent what it’s going to be.
I think the convo did call out who the architect was?
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It’s a multifamily building designed by LOHA. The discussion was here.
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Jason Queen of Monarch property says construction should begin on Saxapahaw General Store this year (hopefully)! Also says the building will house office space and street level retail space. Yes! Plans moving forward for Saxapahaw General Store at Transfer Co. Food Hall :: Out and About at WRAL.com Queen’s construction update begins at 2:06 of the interview
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I have never been to the Saxapahaw General Store, and though I have done a little research on it online, I still don’t have a sense that it’s possible to use it for the majority of ones grocery shopping needs. The reviews for it on Google all seem to be about their prepared foods and dine-in experience. As I read it, it definitely sounds more Weaver Street-ish, but with possibly less standard grocery options. Has anyone been to the original store who can explain it better to me? Also, how might this outpost be different from the original?
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Having been to the one in Saxapahaw, I would pretty much define it as more of an upscale convenience store than a full blown grocery store, lots of organic and gourmet/specialty items. I think the “Weaver Street with less standard grocery options” is probably correct.
I can’t speak for if they are planning something different with this store though.
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The original is totally more Market than Grocery with food prepared on site.
That concept with some minor tweaks should work well at Transfer.
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So, using NYC terms, more bodega like? If so, I’m down with that. IMO, Raleigh could use a lot of bodegas. Personally, I’d like to see the Glenwood South Pharmacy 
Market be more like that. They just gotta add the prepared grill!
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I’ve not really seen anything like bodegas down here (would love to hear any examples folx might have?) but, YES, that’s the *tweak to the Sax ‘general store’ model that it *could be.
Transfer offers BOTH neighborhood access by foot plus destination traffic from the food hall itself. Produce market, convenience items and prepared foods in combination here should work very well.
It doesn’t need to (and likely won’t) be Publix or Weaver Street so it can be its own thing…
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Taz’s would be the closest Raleigh has to a bodega. If only the oak city kitty we’re around still, he’d have been a pretty chill bodega cat.
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looked up the NY definition for bodegas, basically means 7-11, so there are lot’s of those types around everywhere. bodegas is just ny’ers trying to be cute. LOL
EDIT - Sorry ny’ers are not cute just ny’ers
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I had to look. New Yorkers love New York things.
Interestingly enough, NYC uses bodega-to-grocery store ratios to discuss an area’s access to fresh food. Bodegas are the villains in that mathematical equation.
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^ Here’s one in SouthBeach.
Basically! Though, in the article in @JeepCSC’s post:
Another interesting thing in that article: New York’s bodegas seemed to start in the 20s by Puerto Rican migrants (not immigrants, since they’re US citizens too), and are popular because they act as an informal social support network for/by locals just as much as they do as convenience stores.
Even if we somehow start to see local convenience stores in Raleigh, this makes me wonder if they’ll just feel way more “sterile”…
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