One more note, those elevations look suspiciously like stucco to me. I sure hope that I’m wrong.
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Maybe the penthouse has really high 20 foot ceilings with “lofts”
That elevation looks like a hotel in the suburbs. 
or just a small version of the apartment buildings they are doing all over town.
I really hope they do more with this.
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Looks like brick @John.
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It also looks like 5 stories plus a rooftop.
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Not in love with it… but better than some other buildings in Raleigh.
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I’m curious if the developer tried to make a deal for the lot starbucks is on… take that as well and put a nice, new starbucks in the bottom.
Also, if there isn’t enough parking for the number of units being built… why couldn’t they just build less, larger units and charge more? If I were the developer, I would do something similar to the Wade… they are high end, expensive… and selling.
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While there are lots of people that are excited about it not providing enough parking for its residents 1:1, the reality is that it just means more people fighting for the available street parking on Boylan Ave. The cars that are necessary now have to go somewhere. I think that this project could be so much better if they just stopped to think about it for a bit. The top price point possible is quite high based on other projects, and I think that they are not realizing that. Show me the person who is going to pay $500 a foot for a condo without a parking space in Raleigh today.
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FWIW, there will be a Publix 1 block from this location. Until our family had downtown grocery options, that was literally often the only thing we used our car for weekly (and we have 2 kids…) I for one am eager for a built environment that is focused on vibrant, people oriented places. Downtown is shifting away from a car-dependent ecosystem and that’s something worth celebrating from my vantage. 
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They are paying $1300-$2000/month in rent all along Hillsborough Street now…
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@RaleighBikeLady and @UncleJesse
I too share the enthusiasm for a walkable living experience and my condo building is right next door to this project. I am also very well aware of what’s going on in the neighborhood and in Smoky Hollow, and I’m very excited about it. BTW, that Publix will be a 2 block walk from the corner of Boylan and Peace, not 1. That said, I don’t think that an early step to making our dreams come true is to remove parking without a reasonable/robust transit option in place, or without a bridge strategy to supporting cars. We have to start with transit options and perhaps a BandAid until that transit is delivered is for the city to have city run lots/decks that are available at the neighborhood level for a fee to residents. Neither one of those things is in place at the moment for this immediate location. The neighborhood isn’t even zoned parking.
We also haven’t heard from the developer how they are going to manage parking among their limited spaces. Will they have a valet that residents can drop off their car to be parked offsite? Will they even have an internal drop off space out of the rain like Raleigh Crossing has? Have they considered stacked parking with a valet among their limited spaces? Is there enough height in their garage for that? I highly doubt that anyone is thinking about it thoroughly. In any case, a valet program for a building with just a couple dozen units would be really expensive to run.
FWIW, the closest available garage for private parking is 510 Glenwood and they do offer monthly agreements for $75. It’s also 2 blocks long to walk.
As for Hillsborough St., many of those apartments are rented to students, not sold to downtown buyers. That’s a completely different animal, and NCSU has a transportation strategy in place with their Wolfline that goes the extent of Hillsborough from the campus to beyond the Beltline.
I’m not against condos being built with limited parking; I am against it being done flippantly. When someone shows me a realistic plan to manage where we are today, then I’ll look at it and likely change my tune. However, for now, the plan seems to be no plan at all.
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@john your points are spot on. I hope we get to a place in my life where an average of 1.5 spots per unit aren’t needed … But for the reasons you point out they are. In my building I think there are an average of two parking spots per unit depending on size. There are always people needing to borrow spots, rent spots, sell spots, buy spots, etc. We aren’t there yet and that developer has a challenge on their hands.
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You seem to be saying the same thing twice the same thing twice. 
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@OakCityDylan never a good idea to read my posts too closely.
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I’m pretty passionate about this particular topic because the cars aren’t going to magically go away tomorrow, or the next day, or the next year, etc. They are just going to get pushed onto the streets, which will cause neighborhoods to be zoned for parking. Once zoned for parking, God help the person who tries to take that parking away for, let’s say, a bike lane. As long as there’s no stated entitlement to that public space on the street, it will be easier to transform the city with better pedestrian and bike infrastructure.
I’m watching the west side of South Beach struggle with this very issue right now. The city wants to improve pedestrian and bike infrastructure and the neighborhoods are kicking and screaming about losing a few dozen zoned parking spaces. Why? Because there aren’t enough parking spaces on buildings’ own properties. And, I might add, Miami Beach already has a way higher percentage of carless households, a much more walkable environment, a much more robust bike share program, and other things that would suggest that parking isn’t required.
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I only have one parking space at the Ware, granted street parking is not too hard to find nearby. However, lately having to go further up a block or so to find available on street parking.
This is still moving forward. The building lost a floor though. Looks to be one ground floor retail space facing Peace as well as the building office. Parking entered from Boylan obviously. Floors 2-4 are condos. Rooftop patios. Also, yes primarily brick. Colors though for everything is TBD. Unimportant, but there will also be a basement storage area & utility closet.
No clue on a timeline really. The plans look 90% complete.
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Can’t believe that guy in picture 2 is driving into the closed garage door, and no one seems concerned at all… typical self-absorbed millennials!
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