Keep getting notices on my real estate sites I follow about 615 Peace units going under contract. They seem to have found a winning formula .
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Thank you @John! How do you like Google Fiber? I have AT&T fiber right now.
I was already looking to move downtown in the next year or so and the opportunity to get in on new construction at that location really made the decision easy for me. Iām extremely excited to be able to walk to so many places!
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Probably will be finished before Oak City Dylanās Fairweatherā¦ 
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I am happy with the Google Fiber. I am especially happy that my costs for service, when combined with Streaming TV, has brought my costs way down from a bundled service through Spectrum.
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Just got closing date of Nov 12. 
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So weāre all invited for Thanksgiving dinner?
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Should we all wager on the actual date of the closing?
Also, this is in the wrong threadā¦ 
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I promise you donāt want my cooking for Thanksgivingā¦ 
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I already plan to be in town!
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start with enough alcohol & I will eat anyoneās cooking. 
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Congrats @OtherJustin. Clarifying question. Are the parking spots assigned to owners based on first come first served when purchased OR they are first come first served once the place is complete and you either get one that time or park in the Street? I think you know what Iām asking but canāt get my words right.
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Not to usurp @OtherJustin but I was told that itās first come, first served in terms of spaces assigned to units.
If the developer sells all of the small units first, and is left with larger units and no parking, they are going to have a huge problem on their hands.
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@R-Dub, @John is correct, when I put down the deposit on my unit they gave me choice of which parking spot I wanted. They did also mention there will be on street parking although Iām not sure exactly where that would go. Neither Peace nor Boylan really have the room for on street parking the way they are currently laid out, not that I can recall at least.
I will also add of the 24 units in the building there are only 3 one bedroom units. All the other units have 2 bedrooms. It doesnāt completely solve the parking situation but each unit should get one spot in the garage.
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Except that they donāt have enough spots for each unit. If the top floor penthouses sell last, they wonāt get parking, and those are the most expensive units.
As for the street, thereās no parking at all on Peace, and the āfreeā spaces on Boylan are limited and usually full. The only ones that seem to be sometime available are on the west side of the street near Johnson. The street parking is used by Revisn, since I think that their situation is similar to 615 Peace, and to a lesser extent by The Paramount when a couple with 2 cars lives in a one bedroom there. All of the 2+ bedroom units at the Paramount have 2 parking spaces, so there isnāt a huge amount of pressure on the on-street parking from them.
It will be interesting to see what happens when your building is occupied. If there are 2 car households, itās going to be a problem, and I suspect that the Glenwood-Brooklyn neighborhood isnāt going to take kindly to their neighborhood supporting overflow cars on the other side of Peace. If I were the developer, Iād start talks with 510 Glenwood on the use of their deck for residents now.
I get that we have to start thinking about being less of a car oriented downtown, and I support comprehensive plans and programs to head in that direction, but eliminating parking without the rest of the plan is ripe for short term disaster. Just my 2 cents.
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Isnāt this the same forum that laments the parking deck pedestals that take up ~50% of a building? The only way to move away from a car dominated society is to encourage growth that doesnāt dictate car ownership. If my husband and I did not have our kiddos weād get rid of our car (right now we only use if a handful of times monthly). Letās embrace projects that encourage the type of community we all want to live in - one that is people oriented by design.
I think itās a non-issue - in fact, I (personally) celebrate their choice to offer less parking. Letās see how it plays out (and I agree - a partnership with the Paramount could be a great fix if needed! Good idea!)
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My point is you canāt have a half-baked plan, or no plan at all.
just eliminating parking without a good plan in place to support how people get around a city isnāt good enough. I promise you that these residents will come with their cars. There really isnāt a reasonable option for most people to not have one at this stage of the game.
We must build transit infrastructure & our communities to remove the need for cars before we can expect to eliminate them. Having Publix walkable to this location is a step, but itās only one step. While I now wheel my urban shopping bag there in 5 minutes by foot, it just eliminates one trip that I used to use my car for. I have promised myself that I will never drive to that Publix. However, If I need more from the store than I can carry/roll, Iām getting in my car and driving to Wegmanās. Iām just being honest here about how my life actually works, and I donāt think itās dissimilar from others who are striving to use their cars less and less. For the last 20 years, I have driven my cars less than 5000 miles per year. Some years itās only about 3500. Prior to that, I was easily logging 15,000 a year. I am doing my part.
Thereās no way that the Paramount is going to assist in 615 Peaceās potential parking woes because all of the spaces are deeded to individual units. I think that maybe you intended to reiterate my comment about 510 Glenwood??? In any case, that deck also supports Hampton Inn and Suites.
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Yep - just agreeing with your point that shared parking is a great option for many locations where there may be demand at different parts of the day (IE office vs. residential). Allows for more optimal use of an asset and prevents overbuilding. Would also be curious - did Paramount build 2 car spots for each condo? Maybe they would be open to an arrangement if they had ~10 spots not utilized, etc. I feel like seeking innovative solutions will always be optimal to just assuming status quo is best I also wouldnāt assume the developer is not considering these options. Theyāve built many of these projects prior 
Bottom line - the developer is taking on the risk and Iām in strong support of less places for cars that get parked 95%(!) on average of their life. Excited to see this project get built and would love to see more like it
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Iāve not counted the actual number of spaces and compared it against the number of condos, but I do know that 2 & 3 bedroom units came with 2 deeded spots while 1 bedroom units came with 1 deeded spot. There may have been extras that the developer sold to buyers, but I donāt know for sure. I do know that happened at West because I know someone who has a 1 bedroom there with two deeded spots. I think that the Paramountās small retail space on the corner of Boylan & Johnson also has parking deeded, though I donāt know how many spaces that is. If the building does have any extra parking, I suspect that itās a onesy/twosy sort of thing, or tied to accessible spaces requirements.
Our fundamental problem is that the USA leads with roads first as a strategy while places like Singapore & massive cities in China lead with transit. If we purposely build new transit infrastructure in a serious way (meaning not piecemealing it together for 3 decades), we can develop transit oriented nodes of housing, retail, commercial office space etc. However, I doubt that Iāll see that in my lifetime.
At this stage of the game, and dealing with what we actually have, the best we can hope for is to reduce the amount of driving some people do when they choose to live in just a handful of places throughout the Triangle.
The north end of Glenwood South (in conjunction with SH) is starting to look like one of the best places to live a less car dependent life in Raleigh, and while not perfect, Itās definitely heading in the right direction. What canāt be walked to locally is less than a mile drive away in CV or even to Target on Hillsborough at just over a mile away. Of course, there are still missing community resources but there is always hope.
If we push residential development without solving for the short (or longer) parking demand, the cars will spill into the streets for āfreeā parking. In fact, thatās part of the āparkingā solution that the developer of 615 is selling to its buyers. If we push peoplesā cars to the street, guess what happens next? Yep, weāll have a fight over bike infrastructure because we are losing parking. I have seen this sort of community fight in action and it isnāt pretty, and thatās in a place that far more walkable and less car dependent than downtown Raleigh.
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