Garner is like the Raleigh outskirts, I think I remember rumors that the Great Wolf coming there a few years back. The Great Wolf large denied that, but a little off-topic in my opinion Garner would be a great spot for an amusement park for the future Raleigh-Durham metro area. I think even though its in Garner, Raleigh could promote it as it’s own attraction. I think Raleigh could promote q lot of things on it’s own that’s in Garner. However, Garner needs more density absolutely. Amazon second headquarters could’ve settled on the border between Raleigh and Garner in fact I think that would spur so much density down south of Raleigh that would be beneficial, only if Amazon didn’t only wanted it strictly in Raleigh. Since it’s not so far from downtown it could give Downtown South a run for its money.
Garner is a heck of a lot closer to downtown then Brier Creek. And don’t even mention Wakefield, which is about like being in Clayton.
@Bryan that’s great news! A lot of people have been hoping that space would be filled for a long time.
More updates on the VA Clinic coming to Garner, via Garner Biz’s Facebook page:
250,242 square feet, 2 story building with a 5-story parking deck. This is an outpatient facility only.
Also the Town is planning to put four bond referendums on the ballot this fall:
$24,050,000 in Street and Sidewalk Improvement Bonds
$35,500,000 in Parks and Recreational Bonds
$6,500,000 in Public Safety and Services Facilities Bonds
$2,950,000 in Stormwater Bonds
Garner just released the renderings of the downtown mixed use building. This should be a great addition to the town and add some more, much needed, foot traffic and retail opportunities. Hopefully the town continues down this path.
Anyone heard any updates on this project? Saw an article on WRAL today @ commuter rail. Garner’s town manager spoke @ how Garner is hoping it will be approved.
Speaking of; drove by this historic restoration underway today. Directly across from the apartment project. Was a really run down rental forever.
Heard they were going to list it for sale in a week or 2.
Think the address is 300 West Garner: The Harper House. 123 year old home
It’s been listed!
Love it! It’s going to go above asking. I guess by the photos that appliances are still hard to come by?
Will be an easy walk to the future commuter rail.
This house was in terrible condition for decades. Had been a low-end rental. Great restoration project! A chance for Garner to protect some of its history. Looks like it was originally built around 1899/1900.
Hope they get every penny!! Its an awesome restoration!
A bit on the edge of Garner, but the US-40 East loop to 70 is closing to construct an absolute monstrosity of an interchange, a “turbine-style interchange for I-40, U.S. 70, and Toll N.C. 540”. Here’s a completed one in Jacksonville, Fl:
And here’s the new interchange location in Google Earth:
And another one where you can see cars for scale:
Oh my good lord. This is an absolute abomination. I swear, the NCDOT is the absolute worst. 
Shouldn’t that be a good thing for two enormously important freight and interstate transportation routes far away from downtown? We want traffic to move very quickly and smoothly there.
It’s three full interstates converging. It had to be be big otherwise it’d end up a giant waste of money. It serves important freight corridors and has ramp speeds that keep things moving. Often times a lot of interstate traffic is because of poor interchange designs.
Not what people like to hear but like you said it keeps things away from downtown and will help facilitate future industrial and port growth all over ENC.
I’m not sure what the alternative or better option would be. Not everything can be urban and tight. We still rely on freight and intercity travel to get around.
“Monstrosity” here is meant to convey size, rather than sentiment. Perhaps behemoth is a better word…
It does appear that this interchange, while very inefficient in terms of space, is efficient as an interchange and cheaper than a stack interchange. In this area I’m personally fine with NCDOT using this much land if it saves money.
Those stacks are also awful for trucks which is really the root of Atlanta’s traffic problems.
Between the grades and angles trucks really can’t navigate them more than about 25 mph. So even with 2 lane ramps, the queues are horrible and backup the mainlines for miles and miles. Then GDOT tries to widen even though the problems right there in their face.
Plus they’re like spaghetti (hint spaghetti junction in Atlanta) and very very expensive because the sheer amount of concrete.
Hey look at it this way, it’s a couple acres of sprawl avoided in south garner.
This is great information! I mean that. I think I look at interchanges two-dimensionally (stack good, cloverleaf bad) without realizing the third dimension and how that impacts trucks and buses that can’t accelerate quickly. Most of the major LA interchanges are stacks and maybe that’s why they’re so backed up. Granted there isn’t much space for a 40/540/70 monster in urban LA, but with all of the trucks from the ports it makes sense that might be reason for so many backups.
Interesting. Never thought about it like that. I hope they replant all the median areas with trees and it won’t seem quite so large.