I dont see enough parking so that @GucciLittlePig has ample parking in the immediate vicinity of each block when he visits!
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A little bit up the roadâŚConcept 8 is building 12 townhomes at the corner of Lake Wheeler and Kirkland roads. Named Proximity Pointe, listing prices range from $520,000 to $579,000. The homes will be delivered by the end of May. https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2026/04/29/townhomes-raleigh-dix-park-proximity-pointe.html
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I canât read that. Itâs behind a paywall. Iâm hoping Leo can explain it to me 
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Toucheâ my little friendly 
Hopefully Leo will take care of giving a full accounting if the summary doesnât suffice.
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Might be time to swap the handle to Dollar_Store LilâPiggy - if you canât subscribe, you canât Gucci
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I spent all my money on the 
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Theyâre on Kirkland Rd. Are they available through Costco?
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Are there any updates on Lake Wheeler Road construction? It seems like itâs taking a very long time to get started.
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The city is fixinâ to get ready to start, so I am sure weâll see action directly. 
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I think the construction has technically started, but a lot of the work is in prep at this time it appears. I saw quite a bit of utility movement yesterday near Healing Transitions, so hopefully they are clearing the way for the big movement.
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I sure hope so. Driving down that part from HT to South Saunders is like driving on railroad tracks going backwards at 90 miles an hour. Not a pleasant ride.
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to prepare to get the ball rolling on possibly putting the gears in motion to potentially start the process of maybe working towards the first steps to perhaps consider the beginning phases of thinking about getting ready to start*
FTFY
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I sent this email to the project manager listed on the cityâs website on 4/13. On 4/15, they updated the project page but added no new info. I didnât receive a response to the email.
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Sorry to break it to you, but I donât think burying those powerlines were ever in the plans, man. Thatâs partly why they did the big sunflower metal sculpture things around the 2 closest to DixâŚ
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Yeah, they are leaning hard into the overhead power lines. 
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Those arenât the ones Iâm talking about. The sunflower high voltage poles are great. Itâs all the other ones. The wooden poles and lower wires need to go away.
Really didnât think I needed to specify that the sunflower poles stay. Theyâre stunning. If you drive north on LWR toward downtown, itâs all the wires on the east side. No one can convince me they should stay for any reason. Have you all seen what it looks like?
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Itâs the other side of the street, these are all new and assumingly in the way of the road expansion. This Google street image is from Feb 2026 so itâs fairly current.
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Yeah I gotcha - hopefully these will be buried! But remember, this is Raleigh: expect half-assed, a day-late, and a dollar-short!
Sorry, but itâs just what Iâve become accustomed to in my 18 years here LOL
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For any road improvement project the utility relocation/improvement phase seemingly takes âforeverâ and frequently looks like no progress is being made at all.
Fortunately there is apparently no water/sewer mains being replaced. But simply establishing a new overhead utilities pole system can take quite a while since it usually involves multiple utilities sharing the poles. Each works sequentially with separate contractors moving the lines and service connections. It can take many months to do so.
The Carolina Pines Avenue project spent nearly a year in this phase before any road construction even began.
Properties on that side of Lake Wheeler are already heavily impacted by slope easements. The easement needed to bury lines would add to that taking not to mention the associated budget and timeline impacts.
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