We talked about this over in another thread back in December. If it’s student apartments, I bet there’s a good chance they keep / convert the hotel.
There’s a similar project proposed for a hotel of similar vintage in Asheville:
https://prc-buncombe.spatialest.com/#/property/964941682900000
Yeah, that was quick and fairly painful to see in the aftermath. No doubt it was a flash operation to circumvent any possible protest.
Someone steal it. We can rebuild it, we have the technology.
It can be an art installation along the Raleigh Artery!
What in tarnation? They wasted no time in getting that done lol. No one even asked if we wanted the sign. How rude 
Doubletree is officially coming down, making way for Core Spaces most “high end” student housing project in the country.
Plans for the property are beginning to take shape. The 190-room hotel built in 1966 will be demolished. A new building will rise in its place, likely under the company’s flagship brand Hub on Campus. The size of the new development has not yet been determined, said Joe Gatto, managing director of acquisitions for Core Spaces.
They are currently building a 19 story, 800 bed project in Atlanta near Georgia Tech.
ahhhh so THAT’S really why he left Impractical Jokers!!!
Was walking with a friend last week down Hillsborough when he pointed to the hotel and asked how long before we see something happen on that piece of land. Well, that was quick.
Just hope whatever they put here is at least the same height if not taller, and also includes street level activation. That corner is pretty dead as it stands
One huge downside of these 1940s-1990s buildings* is that they’re often situated smack-dab in the middle of their lots, making it tough to infill around them.
I mean, ideologically it seemed like a great idea - “surround towers in a park with beautiful landscaping, cars make everything accessible to the common man, spread people so everyone can have space and light and air” etc etc.
A lot of those architects and urban thinkers were smart people! And most of them weren’t bad actors trying to keep the poor down. They’d just only seen “traditional” city construction and were trying to react to the often very real issues in the crowded, unsanitary cities of their day. It’s hard to see all the unintended consequences until they actually happen.
1302 Hillsborough (corner lot at East Park Dr)
Surface parking lot 
4 townhomes
more housing density
removing surface parking
appear to be front-facing driveways/garages
Unless you went with no driveway or garage I don’t think you could swing an alley back there. Especially with alleys having to be 18 feet wide for the .0000000000000001% time fire truck has to access
Interesting that these townhouses have a basically square footprint instead of the more typical rectangle. I wonder how many floor these are? Presuming that the ground floor is essentially a garage, they have to be at least 3 stories.
Only 650’ sq ft per floor so I’m assuming
Garage level, living level, 2 bedroom level, loft with terrace level.
Interesting that you mention that. My townhouse has an almost square footprint. Of course, we’re not downtown, but yea, I didn’t think it was unique until you mentioned that. Our previous townhouse near Wake Forest had the traditional rectangular footprint.
Not bad, I would imagine that site could handle more density being so close to State, but housing over parking any day.
I don’t see square townhouse footprints that often. I’d love to see yours! I’m a floorplan nerd. 
If they just have a one car garage, one could imagine a ground floor flex/bedroom as well.
…still they’ll be a million bucks.
Unless the staircase is side to side all the way in the back I think the flex room would be too narrow to be usable. Say the garage is 11’ wide then 5’ for the staircase that’d only leave about 7 feet.
Not sure I’ve seen a staircase all the way in back with a setup like this but I’d be curious to see if it could work because I personally would like the first floor flex space in nearly every townhome situation
