Grow Raleigh grow!!!
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I’m not sure where to put this, but it’s in reference to the new (seemingly) multi-family build just down from Transfer on S East Street. The roofline looks like it was designed by Dr. Seuss. The interior appears to be a dual-entry (one from East St, one from the back of the building) with each entry leading to 2 ground floor units (1 bedroom) and 2 upstairs units with what might be a loft and maybe even balcony. I love the smaller sqf per unit as it should lead to “more affordable”. Not sure if they’re going to be sold off or apartments. Was this mentioned anywhere else in the forum? Looks like fantastic infill (1:8 ratio)!
EDIT: I believe this is 323 S. East Street. The backside of the property will seemingly share an entry from the corner lot where the Crude Bitters place is.
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My wife and I have walked through that multiple times now and still can’t figure it out. A few weeks ago we thought it was an office building, then a week later it looked like a large single family home. But now you’re right, it appears to be sectioning itself off into smaller units. I’m interested to see the final product.
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Looks like some of the same folx from Millbank development…?
Sylvain is a good guy, he was the realtor who sold our neighbors house, I’m guessing he will be the realtor for this property as well.
It’s a possibility, he sells homes for Redeeming Development group (the Millbank development project).
Although I haven’t seen anything posted about this project to any of their websites yet.
This may be an early rendering. The doors/roofline doesn’t really look accurate to what’s there. For instance, the entry door is very center to the front/back of the building.
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Is that on S East Street?
Designed by the same architect for Park City South, LOHA out of Los Angeles
This was a screenshot from a lecture he gave at NCSU back in January. https://vimeo.com/388584199 (Gets to it at ~1:16:20)
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This house is on S. East street, correct. They have a very interesting view on project development, he also said they plan on making the exterior metal.
Their project portfolio is very impressive too
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But…whyyyyyyyyy?
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He talks about it around 1:17:30. See other funky directions the massing could’ve gone:
In short: the gabled roof geometry was intended to help a 3-story building feel more similar in scale to its 2-story surroundings. Each gable represents a residence, so the idea that the massing makes the different units contained within the building visible from the street.
But to what I bet you’re actually asking about – the different (/arbitrary) slope of each gable – I think the question is why not lol. It’s probably just for adding a moment of interest/a quirky form to our city. And looking at the section, it seems like it’s going to add a lot to the interior spaces as well.
More funky stuff like this, please! And thanks for posting the lecture @COD, I didn’t realize he was in the lecture series this past year.
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You are going to miss the east side! Eeeeeeest siiide! Hopefully you are one of the Fairweather residents that closed this week.
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Today at 11am! Peace out east siiiiiide!!
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I am thinking about changing the sections of ITB where I look at new builds for 2021. With the CACs gone it seemed like I might be able to sections things in a way that shows what is happening in areas that are more geographically related. I did a first pass at this and realized that there is no perfect way to do this :). It also might be good to do this based on transit cooridors or take out sections that are pretty far from downtown. The area past Lake Johnson is pretty far from everything else. I don’t want sections to get too small because that would be way more work for me, but how does this look? Any ideas on how to better section things? Current I am thinking about doing more of a central “downtown”, but west and east downtown is interesting too. The way capital splits things is kind of convenient and a real seperations. I am also wondering about splitting off a kind of 5-points east because i think the area around capital, wake forest and Atlantic does have distinctive different stuff going on. Ideas thoughts?
Here is my first draft of a new segmentation
Here is how the CACs where
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I think your numbers can be a little misleading. Most of the infill in the southeastern part of the city are homes replacing once uninhabitable structures. So the net gain is actually greater. The footprint on these new homes is no larger than the homes they replace. Just an additional story or so.
Why not use glenwood as a boundary instead of Oberlin/St. Mary’s?
I thought it would capture a “greater five points” this way. I had an idea of calling the area bellow that downtown west and this downtown north. Haha. I am sure people would love that. This is all just an excercise in showing what was built in an easy way to understand, but I can feel how controversial lines on a map could be