As this update encompasses Moore Square + City Market, and the RFPs were called ‘Moore Square South’ and ‘Moore Square East’, I’ll make this update here:
Finally, movement today.
City is moving forward with negotiations, and we are very close based on the latest council meeting. If you’d like to watch it yourself, feel free to here:
Brief breakdown:
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Loden was able to negotiate for the vast majority of this block. There is one holdout. The will be able to acquire the House of Art (Mary Black seemed a bit bummed about that), the Raleigh Rescue, and the old pest control place. They’ll have the entire frontage that faces Moore Square on that block.
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The new timeline is now broken into two phases. They are going to move the affordable housing component to phase 1 alongside the City Market parking lot. Previously, it was planned to do the affordable housing component in phase 2. Here is the new way that the layout is projected to look.
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The Moore Square visitor center (The Norwood House) is moving to the front of the transit center to the side of Watts and Ward. Here’s how it will be positioned. Personal opinion: this spot is kind of weird at the moment. The Norwood House would look great here.
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The old farmer’s market will be transitioned into an openglass Artspace viewing center. They’ll also be purchasing more parking spaces alongside city market to turn into retail. Here’s how the space will look.. I’ll add that, it wasn’t mentioned, but it looks like they’ve removed the karaoke component (previous view for reference). I was looking forward to that, but nothing was mentioned about it.
