Raleigh-area Mall / Life-Style Center / RTP Redevelopments

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Midtown vs. Downtown

The idea is that the tunnel could help the building in red here as well as the wing in green become part of the overall retail experience, in addition to “linking” the experience on the east with the experience on the west. This is why I think the best opportunity for this to happen will be when the North State Bank is redeveloped. When they do that, they will probably be digging down anyway to add a level or two of underground parking. That would be the best opportunity to go ahead and put in…

Midtown vs. Downtown

Here’s where this tunnel could integrate into NH Main. This floor could continue on this level, with no slope, under Six Forks, and all the way across to the plaza at NH East. [tunnel_from_target] Ditch the row of parking (about 20 spaces) to make it a nice walkway connecting the tunnel to Target. It’s about a 700 foot walk from here to the NHE plaza.

Midtown vs. Downtown

I kind of disagree. While you’re correct that clearly no such accommodation was made on the west side of Six Forks, the east side is literally perfect for it. The central plaza between the Captrust and Bank of America towers of NHE is perfectly depressed 12-14’ below the pavement of Six Forks. The parking entrance to Captrust has already dipped fully below ground by that point. There are no gravity-drained sanitary sewers or storm sewers under Six Forks to get in the way. They’d just have to re…

Midtown vs. Downtown

Lastly, this is where it would tie in with the upper/street level at main North Hills. It would be about 450’ from here to NHE. [tunnel_from_upper_level]