The north/west side is almost a separate “skyline” since its kinda hard to view it at the same time with the Fayetteville street core.
Really need that observation tower at Dix so we can see all of downtown skyline at once.
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Small correction. 150 Fayetteville is the 3rd tallest downtown building (after PNC and Truist) and the 4th tallest in Raleigh (The Eastern at North Hills is approximately 4 feet taller).
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Are you sure that The Eastern is taller? I thought that we talked about this in the past and it’s not taller than the top 3 downtown. I’ll have to go do some research. I’ll retract and correct myself if I find that The Eastern is taller.
Update:
So, all over the Internet are claims that The Eastern is 404 ft. tall, then there’s this link from the team that designed it that says it’s 377 feet tall.
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I was just going by Wikipedia - but I’d trust the developer over that!
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isn’t this a solvable debate. I am assuming there has to be a set of plans that lists it.
That says it’s 36 floors, and the architect says that it’s 34 floors. Also, the 404 is an estimate.
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I’ve got a tape measure!
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Did some of the retail space get axed? I know the long office structure isn’t going up yet. But I thought the first tower was supposed to have around 10K sq ft of retail?
I believe that most of the new retail space is going in the phase II office portion of the project.
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So basically never, by the time is gets delayed more and scrapped or value engineered away. The coolest parts of projects are always in the later phases. Which I why I have really grown to hate phased projects. Look at our track record
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The new Rbus station looks great, who needs a phase II!
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They might as well let people park on the current roof.
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A bit more detail about this from today’s N&O:
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/real-estate-news/article311503897.html
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“The historic Creamery building in Raleigh’s bustling Glenwood South district is slated to become the city’s tallest skyscraper.”
Huh? What am I missing?
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Lazy journalism. Guessing they are going by the floor count. And it’s next to the historic Creamery building.
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RalToday quoted that as well and I replied to them correcting them.
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As often as they get stuff like this wrong, I’m giving the journalists a little leeway in this case. In the N&O article it directly attributes the statement that it will be Raleigh’s tallest building to the developer. So it’s really on the developer for being misleading. It would have been nice for the article to have mentioned the actual heights though.
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It’s also on the N&O to get its facts correct before publishing! If not, then this very very very simple fact can snowball into “perceived facts”. Sorry for the rant but it happened to be a good example of how incompetence leads to misleading facts.
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