Any other city in the county is more than welcome to add affordable housing if they feel they can do it better (or even just do it). I’d be curious how much affordable housing being built across the county per city or how much of the budget is allocated to it.
Saw this today on a walk, corner of Davie and Chavis. City of Raleigh land beside the Little Rock Trail. Maybe just a landscaping project?
Been like that for over a year actually. They set it up when they did some work on Davie, some sewer work, but now that it finished, this has been left behind. I’m not sure what it’s for to be honest.
Wow, really highlights that I need to take more walks
The sewer work is continuing currently on Tipton St. before it was on Coleman St. They are still trying to complete each street individually. They actually made the news last week when one of the contracted dump trucks hit and killed a dog on State St.
Raleigh man wants answers after his dog is hit by a truck in his neighborhood
Posting photos of crime ridden downtown/Moore Square where no one likes to go. Photo quality isn’t great, but it was the only photos I really took. (Click here to see photos from Fayetteville St).
Look at all those vagrants! Time to clean up our streets!
Had family from out of town meet us for dinner at Brewery Bhavana Friday. They noted how much sketchier their walk from the parking deck has gotten. I passed someone downing an airplane bottle otw into the restaurant myself. Moores square is pleasant but the other side of the street is a subpar pedestrian experience. We can take the recent news stories w a grain of salt but they arent fantasy either.
Unfortunately we have pockets of this in other locations around DTR. I have no answers just questions. I wonder as we continue to put up our 20+ towers in sky for those who can afford such high dollar experiences, how many more will fill our streets because we don’t provide basic affordable apartments for them too?
Agreed. The city is doing decent at planning affordable housing, but the process is lengthy. Hard to accomodate for the rapid influx of new raleigh citizens in a timely manner. Hope we see many more establishments like the one over by Transfer.
Lol all three 20+ story residential towers in the sky
Now now…we all know we are all dreaming of more 20 story buildings and 30 story buildings and 40 story buildings. And I dare say we will have those before we ever have very many affordable apartments in the city.
The older complexes should be (are?) the affordable ones. We just haven’t built enough new ones yet to have that impact.
This is why I have high hopes for the 2200-bed Hub On Campus: if you take 2200 students out of apartments on Tryon or Avent Ferry or wherever, then those apartments will have to drop rents to compete for more tenants.
Dogs need to be leashed or contained behind a fence per city ordinance, so I think the problem has been solved.
Sad about the dog, who was mostly like a goodboy.
I suspect that those beds will temporarily replace beds lost on campus as the university demos and replaces aging dorms on the west side of campus. Maybe after that work is complete, these beds could soften up the off-campus housing?
For a long time the official line was that they would not tear down Bragaw, Lee, or Sullivan until they had built an equivalent number of new beds first.
I can’t figure out from the most recent master plan document whether this is still the case.
Definitely is suspicious though that Hub On Campus is 2195 beds, and the West Campus dorms slated for demolition total up to 2220 beds.
I could fathom a scenario where the units at Hub On Campus don’t (initially) go on the market at all - and are leased as a whole to NCSU Student Housing for 2 years while they tear down and rebuild west campus all at once. Phasing is expensive, this could wind up saving them money in the long run.
This is pretty much my presumption for the very reason that you describe. The number of beds at the Hub is really convenient, and it’s not difficult to see the university being an immediate built-in tenant of the entire project.
As a side note, The Village District is about to see a lot more business, and the increase of foot traffic on Woodburn Ave is another likely scenario.