The ChikFilA hotel will have a 12th (or 13th?) story rooftop bar, becoming the new highest rooftop bar in the city. So, my suggestion would be for this tower to have a 14th story rooftop bar just to stick it to em 
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I think with all the new activity around here – and especially this new tower – we will soon need to address the Dawson St. car sewer. All the traffic, air and noise pollution makes for a pretty unpleasant pedestrian experience despite the amenities that are/will be in this area.
My decades-away “burn it all down” idea is to convert McDowell St. to a 2-way road and let that be the main N-S route through downtown. Then run some form of transit down Dawson and make the remaining space bike+ped only. (Or vice versa with McDowell).
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Where’s the parking deck !!!
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The ASR is on the city’s website with that rendering
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It’s on the ASR https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR15/ASR-0023-2023.pdf
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ASR shows the Berkley Cafe being demolished 
Looks like two amenity decks? Would love if the one on the rooftop was accessible by the public / had a restaurant.
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Wow, better looking than I anticipated. Nice!
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“Amenity Level. Storefront.” on the roof is promising for a restaurant / bar up there.
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Wow that is pretty decent upon first look. Good for them!
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Well it’s a race to see which of the 30+ towers actually breaks ground because none have actually made any progress yet. Hargett and Vela both failed their last review.
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Sheesh, what reasons?
Gotta make room for that parking deck entrance ramp! 
Actually, I guess the building does go over that space too, so not completely pointless.
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I think that’s a generic industry term for the exterior, so while it could mean a restaurant/bar/whatever it could also just be an amenity deck for residents
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Middle finger emoji is not towards you - just towards the developers that couldn’t give a flying fuck about our city’s history while they cash in. Fuck this.
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Hopefully this one fails until they are able to preserve the literal sliver of a 100-year-old building that Berkeley Cafe is housed in. Remember folks, as great as these new developments are, when they are built at the expense of our very few remaining historic buildings (I’m talking 75-100 or more years old) - those cool, old buildings that add variety and a sense of age and history to our city are gone forever. New developments can go anywhere, and can be designed in such a way to preserve old buildings. Old buildings can either simply remain - or be lost forever. While I am keen on more density, more housing, more development, etc - I’m not cool with this development knocking down a 100-year-old building to do it. There are ways around destroying history. City needs to grow a pair and start demanding more from developers in exchange for the rezoning. Did they not push them to exclude Berkeley building in order to approve the 40-story rezone? And if so, clearly they didn’t actually make it a requirement. This is a disgrace! I’m just as if not more upset by this than the (also 100-year-old) Goodnights building - which was demolished for, currently, AN EMPTY LOT.
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Either way it looks like they will include landscaping up there, which will be cool to see at 430 feet.
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I think the simpler boxy design on this one will benefit the skyline and really fill in some space. I’d rather have the 500+ footers be used for the iconic tops/crowns and the shorter buildings to give the sense of density and layers by taking up more dead space in the view.
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