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This is such a massive project, but itâs been hard for me to get a full sense of the scale until now. Thanks for sharing these!
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Kowloon-on-Hillsborough grows and grows
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Incredible pictures thank you for taking them. This thing is huge I would love to know what this is costing.
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Another less talked about detail of this project is how well it hides the garage. I am sure it is smaller than a normal apartment garage given that it is for students. Still great how hidden it is.
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Itâs like three 20-story towers if you consider every chuck a 12-story âtowerâ.
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RECAP: The 12-story housing development calls for almost 1.1 million square feet. It will have a total of 1,951 rooms. A parking deck will be built with 692 parking spaces. Plans call for hundreds of bicycle parking spaces.
This is astonishing, really.
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Iâm not quite sure itâs big enough 
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The amount of foot traffic this is going to create is crazy. University towers has 885 residents, this will have over 2,000 residents at minimum and only 692 parking spaces.
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I think weâll see Woodburn between there and The Village District become a busy walking corridor. I envision the neighborhood also freaking out about the potential of more car traffic, and I predict the response from them will be a request for speed bumps on Woodburn.
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And yet⌠theyâll have to walk elsewhere, quite a few blocks away, for any meaningful food/drink/retail. SUCH wasted potential not including a single retail space in this absolutely gigantic building. I know, I know - but I will beat this dead horse to a pulp.
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Itâs a 15 minute walk to Harris Teeter not really bad. Americans just donât like to walk more than from the door of their house to the door of their car.
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Theyâre students, though. Much more walking-focused than your average American.
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Heck, I walk to Harris Teeter from much further away. The few blocks from this site to The Village District is nothing.
To @Jake 's point, itâs a shame that there isnât more in the building itself, but itâs certainly a better context than the giant new Weld Towers.
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Hub belongs to what Iâd call the âeastern clusterâ of student housing, which also includes Trilogy and 1301 Hillsborough. When Hub is complete there will be just shy of 3000 students living there when fully occupied.
Compare this to the âwestern clusterâ of University Towers, Valentine, Stanhope, Uncommon, Standard, and a few smaller buildings, which weighs in at just over 4000 students.
So while Hub is a large building to be sure, and a lot of apartments to come online all at once, it is not earth-shattering when you look at the âclusterâ level, which is what probably drives foot traffic. The western cluster will still be bigger, in sum.
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Wait, you like walking?? 
LOL.
Well, I did some crude mapping by distance and the two grocers at TVD are about 1900 ft and 3324 ft by walking away from Hub Raleigh: the latter of which is about 1km.
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Was listening to a Hillsborough St townhall meeting at lunch. Was mentioned that the old Two Guys space has a prospective buyer (would be great for the street to finally see something there after 10 years, but Iâll believe that when I see it).
Also mentioned that the old theater/McDonalds space has a signed lease, work is ongoing, and they expect the upfit cost to exceed $1M & take about a year. Said it was a ânational brandâ that has done very well in Chapel Hill. I assume that means it will be a Raising Canes. I like Canes fine, but I was really hoping for a sports bar like Sammyâs to open there. That space is great, itâs just not been the right concept fit since it was renovated/reopened back in 2017-2018.
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Raising Canes is like crack-cocaine chicken. I donât know what they do to those chicken fingers but Iâve never had a bad one!
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Yes please to Raising Canes!
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