Oh ok that’s cool! Salisbury Street continues to deaden. Maybe if it was a 2 way street…
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“Oma’s Café + Wine Bar, an all-day cafe, is now open on the ground floor of the Residence Inn Raleigh Downtown (616 S. Salisbury Street), directly across from the Raleigh Convention Center, Red Hat Amphitheater, and Martin Marietta Center. Join them for breakfast (coffee from Five Star Coffee Roasters in Holly Springs), lunch, or dinner and a drink.”
from Triangle Food Blog
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Hearing on Reddit and Nextdoor (reliable sources right…) that 42nd street has sold and is closing soon. Anyone have anything to substantiate that?
TBJ just confirmed:
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Confirmed on Instagram, the official news source.
We stopped going after they went downhill after COVID, but I was hoping they’d get back to normal. This is a sad loss.
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Yeah, like everything else. Went there with my Mother and husband one last time before both of them died in 2023. Hadn’t really had the desire to go back.
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Fun Fact. The popular seafood restaurant opened in 1931 as a grocery store offering oysters and craft beer. The bar was reestablished in 1987 and became one of the Triangle’s top destinations for seafood.
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Logan’s Trading Company is officially open (early!) at their new Farmer’s Market location. Can’t remember the last time some place opened ahead of schedule.
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So 42nd St… sounds like a dispute over the rent? Does the landlord think they’ll be able to find another tenant? lol in this economy?? dumb.
Or are they really just trying to sell to redevelopment into more 5 story cheap “luxury” apartments?
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It makes me wonder if there’s some “playing chicken” here with the landlord. Didn’t something happen post pandemic with a bunch of Regal Cinema locations around the country? Regal listed a bunch of locations that would close, and many of them didn’t once the landlords realized that Regal was willing to close.
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My uninformed opinion is that the property will be sold to the highest bidder and redeveloped. If there is a 30+ story building going up at the Creamery (2 blocks north) and the 20 story 400H heading the other direction (2 blocks south), this single story building is a massive underuse of the property in a rapidly densifying area of Raleigh. It takes years for rezoning and all the plans to be developed. Kicking out the long term tenant now may be a bit premature, but from the property owner perspective, better to get them out now before you are locked into another long term lease that would be more difficult and expensive to get out of later. Just my 2 cents.
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If I owned the property, I wouldn’t want the property not generating income as I went through the rezoning and planning for what’s next. I’d want all of that buttoned up so that I could swing hammers as quickly after a closing as possible. Why couldn’t 42nd St. sign just a 5 year extension?
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Hopefully Greg Hatem will step in a secure this 100 year old icon’s place for the future. The currently building opened in the 1980’s so its not like the structure is ‘historic’ like the Angus Barn. Greg has some awesome buildings downtown that’s he’s currently renovating. The old CVS on Fayetteville Street is one option. He also owns that hipster church building next to Morgan Street…would be a perfect place to move 42nd Street!
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I think you forgot the /s.
could a revamped 42nd st be put in a lower floor of a newly constructed taller-than-5-over-1 building?
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I think there is more to the story. The loss of the over flow parking lot hurt. The 2 lots are combined 1.03 acre and the railroad doesn’t help. Great loss for foot traffic to the area and loss of an institution.
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Simons Says Dip This has kind of a strange location in Bloc 83. It almost feels like it’s apart of the yoga studio. They will definitely need more than the small sign to get people in.
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Yeah really strange. Unless they have killer marketing, they’re gonna get lost in there quick, and fail quickly.
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I’m guessing they’ve got a pending application with the city but wanted to get started, so the sandwich board is a stopgap since it doesn’t require any city approval
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Slice Pie Company is moving to 606 N. Person St. to share a 2,000-square-foot space with cake bakery Sugar Euphoria, owned by Randi Smith. Slice will host its grand opening this Friday, which just happens to be National Pi Day (the mathematical one). Mullins has also moved her pie production to a 22,000-square-foot facility in Graham.While the old Saunders location had the capacity to make 200 pies a day, “We’re going to be able to do 3,000 a day” at the Graham facility, Mullins said.
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