You keep saying that but they’re twin towers being built by the same company at the same time. Like… it would be weird if they didn’t look nearly identical. I hear your underlying point but this is a bad example to harp on.
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Could be wrong but I don’t think its the City requiring the parking but the moreso the market is dictating it. Can assure you developers would not be building spaces at $40K a pop that aren’t needed just for drill. If less parking is needed the market would surely adjust to that.
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There are parking minimums dictated by the city for any new development
Understand, but those are usually well below what you see being built.
I just want to see data on how often all the city’s parking decks are at capacity. I have serious doubts that ANY of them ever reach full capacity, honestly.
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Based on where this address shows up in google maps, it looks to me like 1021 social is the residential building (orange) on the far left of this image from the Exchange’s website:
In which case the deck may eventually be shared by the attached office building
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to be fair…are many other rapidly growing cities, perhaps some ahead of raleigh in density and population, using a similar build paradigm? are the ‘potential residents’ of the structures still desiring car parking? to graft off of a another thread about council members and possible representative ratios, perhaps this is where a more responsive and actual CBD district can either set precedent…or flop?
This might actually be the thing that gets me living away from downtown in the upcoming years unless downtown can somehow get a really bougie gym.
Being able to go down the elevator to a Life Time seems insanely cool.
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I mean, what else is a 20 story apartment building going to look like? We do not have enough high rise apartment buildings actually built yet to be complaining about them looking samey IMO.
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It really wanna know why they produce these lackluster designs. Awhile ago I had an idea that we lure more foreign developers, architects, and designers to bring out real design, but Nooo some people on this forum thought NC State design students was perfect.
Really lackluster design who is in charge of hiring these firms to do the renderings? A while ago I posted rendering foreign building proposals and designs I suggested we bring more of that here. But no some people in this forum thought designed by
NC State “students” not professionals were better. Here the receipts of what I was talking about.
https://rjtrdesign.com/ did these renderings.
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Architects don’t just “do renderings.”
That aside, there’s plenty of local talent; the Triangle has an incredibly strong design scene that can hold its own in any national market. It’s who developers are choosing to work with that is the problem – the same 2 or 3 below-average firms are doing most of the developer work. Higher-end design firms are doing more private work around the Triangle.
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Hopefully the higher end ones are gonna propose some designs soon. Now I’m starting to rethink the appearance commission going away.
And now the 11-story apartment building back behind the Bojangles…
Creative/ efficient use for an odd-shaped site.
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Between this, the development on Hodges of the old ice rink, and the intersection of Six Forks and Industrial, a lot is planned for the area.
We’ll see who moves dirt first though because both of those other two seem to be stuck in limbo. All feel like slam dunks with RIW opening, but not sure what’s holding them back.
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Need way better pedestrian connectivity in this area. Not that this is holding up the buildings, but a huge missed opportunity as this area densifies.
Really hoping that the northern BRT ends up routing through Atlantic/Six Forks.
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I was just thinking how the greenway through here really connects the whole district once it extends up to north to the St. Albans/Exchange area and to the south with the Atlantic Ave bike lanes. Would probably need to be widened and have designated bike vs walking lanes with all this development coming up.
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Density without walkability just means traffic, and that ends up fueling NIMBYism that can’t get its narrative off of growth=traffic.
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