Well I don’t own a bike, didn’t go to NC State, and nothing in that plaza seems particularly remarkable to me, so I’m not surprised I didn’t know about them.
However, all the downtown businesses I’ve been happily supporting with my car-driven lifestyle have had something to draw me to them besides just randomly walking by.
Aww. I got my last two bikes there. Good prices and they’d do minor tune-ups for free. Such awesome folks, and were always very dedicated to being part of the downtown fabric. I’m 95 percent sure this is due to Retirement and not a lack of business. They had an extremely loyal customer base. Never even advertised…word of mouth kept the sales good.
Cycle Logic closing is a bummer. Great little bike shop with an awesome team. Bought my COVID times city cruiser from there when all the other shops were way, way back ordered.
Loved that bike and they would hook you up with healthy discounts on accessories when ordering through them. Sadly that bike was stolen out of my garage a few months ago 
This is the thing going in where the Doubletree was? Looks way better than I thought it would.
This thing is absolutely enormous. I like it though. Much better than the old Double Tree.
That sign looks a lot like Harvard’s logo
This looks pretty interesting. Just wish it had RETAIL or even an amenity at the corner to bring some transparency at the ground level
Retail doesn’t need to be in every residential building, the vacant storefronts need to be filled first. This development will entice more businesses owners to open in those spaces currently vacant, given the sharp increase in potential customers.
Yes, I agree that not every building needs retail. But this is an absolute mammoth that has no porosity at street level, and even once nearby vacancies are filled there’s no changing that. Superblocks of this size with no entrances, variety, or transparency create miserable pedestrian experiences, and they should absolutely be broken up with street-level activity of some kind imo.
Yea I agree on an amenity space and thought I had remembered seeing that from the ASR floor plan? But there’s not really any adjacent retail so seems fine to let the retail to be clustered toward Morgan st, around the belltower and the village district.
I agree with that but there are multiple opportunities for nearby parking lots, bound to be developed soon, to have ample retail. The chance of new development including retail is higher now in my book because of the incoming demand.
My overall argument is that future development around this building will most likely help to improve the pedestrian experience.
I’m a believer of small-to-medium size developments with relatively cheap retail spaces included over large projects that include unaffordable retail spaces that stay vacant.
Ok, damn. Lack of retail aside, this looks 100x better than I was expecting from the (rough) first concept render.
RIP to the view from DH Hill but the density is worth it.
I’m impressed with the effort put in to keep a walkway open here, and to keep it feeling safe. There are poured concrete barriers between the road and the walkway. Though, this walkway uses the existing bike path, so bikes are pushed out into the car traffic for the time being.
I’ve walked that path a few times and think that it needs to be a standard for any project in and around downtown. As for bikes, did they paint a temp sharrow in the lane? I haven’t looked that closely to see if one is there or not.
There isn’t. They could have taken the traffic into the middle lane and have a bike lane. Now it leads to me having to squeeze myself in. For me, it’s not a huge deal since I’m used to having to squeeze at the roundabouts on Hillsborough. I can see others trying to avoid the area or trying to squeeze in the corridor. Not a good design at all.
It didn’t occur to me to check. I’ll try to remember next time I’m over that way
Edit: answered by @wanderer 1 minute before this response (I’ll take my 
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