I forgot they still existed after they moved out of downtown.
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Do you think things might have turned out better if they had stayed downtown?
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No doubt, small biz that falls under the Restaurant / Retail descriptor IS F’n hard…
Hard to say. I know downtown has higher rent, but potentially more young active people as new customers. I liked the placed when they were downtown, and they’ve been a great community participant.
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Their Tuesday night run club thing was a large group as recently as a couple weeks ago, and it was always busy when I went there.
50% off sale online if anyone needs some gear by the way, use code “SHOPINDEPENDENT”
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Kinda hard to shop online when “Men’s shoes” will have a “W” in the title, or “women’s” in the description, what the hell… I genuinely can’t tell what the hell I’m looking at when an item has both “men” and “woman” on it…
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Personally, I don’t see gender anymore. How 1990s of you.
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I started going there back in 2016/17 & loved all that Alex & his team did for the community. From what I’ve heard after they moved to their new location there wasn’t a lot of parking. Initially, they were allowed to use the field across the street near the old Circus restaurant but were eventually told by the owner of that land they couldn’t use it as a parking lot, then add Tap Yard opening next door & taking up a lot of the street parking & folks just stopped going to their Thursday night run clubs.
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thats sad to hear…i used to run the greenways a night circa 08 and 09
Raleigh had a cool history of road races…the early GRRR (great raleigh road race) capital trail run, the old reliable, Loop the Nuke, and run for the roses…generally fun events.
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Co-owners Jeff Gold and his daughter Andi Macko reopened Cup-A-Joe’s Mission Valley location on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. The café closed in 2021 during the pandemic. Its soft-opening pop-up runs through Friday, June 27, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. The shop will close Friday afternoon and reopen Aug. 11. The rumors are true. One of the Triangle’s most loved coffee shops is reopening
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This is good news. Honestly, I think Mission Valley is another of many older shopping centers in town that could use some upgrades and investment to try to revitalize. Still gotta find something in that old cinema spot.
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At least once a year since post-pandemic, I hear rumors that “someone” is reopening Mission Valley Cinema… and then crickets.
Biz Journal about Macerich’s plans for Crabtree include a focus on new entertainment based tenants.
from the article:
The new owners are planning a $60 million facelift, including fresh coats of paint and new lighting fixtures in the common areas and parking garage to brighten and modernize the mall. The mall will also get new furniture, handrails, landscaping and improved signage. In addition, the food court will see some improvements, as well as the addition of a family play zone.[https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2025/06/30/macerich-crabtree-mall-raleigh-upgrades-tenants.html?
Also mentioned is stormwater infrastructure to combat flooding.
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I assume the project that’s underway in the mall’s northwest parking lot will remediate the problem of water inflow from the nearby properties at higher elevations by increasing pass-through capacity through the mall parcel and into the creek. No more lake at the corner of Creedmoor and Glenwood. Doesn’t address the problem of too much water coming down the creek from upstream during torrential rain and getting into the mall from that direction.
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There is not much to do about fixing the fact that the mall was built in a flood plain in the first place. Well I’m sure there are things that could be done, but I imagine most of it is prohibitively expensive.
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Just look at all the lakes and ponds built up stream…
They should embrace the water and have a floating market section!
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The expansion of Lake Lynn and the construction of Lake Crabtree and the other lakes near RDU Airport were intended to mitigate flooding along Crabtree Creek at the mall and downstream from the mall. Shelley Lake was also part of this program, although it didn’t help the situation at the mall. These measures did improve the situation although they’ve been undermined by further development in the Crabtree Creek watershed above the mall.
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Wonder how much it would cost to abandon the ground-level section along the creek and add parking elsewhere. Probably would have to expand/add another deck along the Glenwood side.
Building a flood wall to protect ground-level parking would make surrounding and downstream flooding worse. By how much, I don’t know.
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I assume it has been studied and rejected. Would increase the velocity of the water past the mall and potentially scour underneath the bridges for Blue Ridge, Glenwood, and Century. The parking lots and even the mall itself are sacrificial compared to those bridges.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/DLkv3cOP1a-/?hl=en
the bike library is open at the platform apartments.
pay these incredible folks a visit or 7
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