In what part of the shopping center would the North Hills Transit Center be located?
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Need some solar panels up there.
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Next to its affordable housing. 
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Am I seeing things, or does it look like the Target moved to a new location in that pic?
If youāre talking about the aerial shot with future building renderings you canāt see Target. Are you talking about the red stripe where 5 Guys is?
Thereās actually a Target on the front of a garage entrance under the new towers next to the Rennaisance Hotel. Itās probably just telling folks where to go to park.
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They mentioned in the report they havenāt started the studies yet. But it looked like they will do a study for the best place in terms of buying, building, etc.
I also saw a date of 2023 for the proposed North Hills - Atlantic& Six Forks Intersection - Downtown Route. Iām not sure about the other new or updated routes, but I was disappointed in seeing the date so far out.
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The Target is there. The target parking lot is in the Northwest corner, and the Target is below it.
Canāt you just let us have our wild, unfounded speculation based off of mockups that donāt even represent the current state of the proposal?
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TBJ just picked up on JCPenny closing and being replaced with a larger development. Itās funny to hear City Council complain about Peace St. not being sufficient enough to handle more traffic, but zero discussion about the extremely limited Lassiter Mill Rd. that is only 1 of 2 ways to cross 440 which essentially makes a moat around all of North Hills.
https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2019/08/22/jc-penney-to-close-as-north-hills-adds-tower.html
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With the NH JCP closing, Iām surprised that thereās not been talk of reopening at Cary Town Center. (But, now Iām going off-topic) But, JCP may be another continuing victim of the Retail Apocalypse, and electing to give up on Wake County altogether.
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Cary Town Center has new owners and are going before the board to give the mall a total redo. Not sure if the current mall will survive all the proposed changesā¦
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Ha, I love it: āWe donāt want to be like North Hills and have monster buildings.ā
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The plans have options to keep the Belk and/or Sears buildings (pretty much wrap with 1 story retail if existing building is kept, or build higher if demolished), but everything else is set to be demolished.
I live right by Cary Town Center, so Iām all for maximizing the opportunity.
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It is only a matter of time until Kane gets rezoning permission to build on those open lots toward 6 forks, where the gas station is. The more Apartments, commercial, and live works space Kane can build, and fill, the more self sustaining it all becomes, and the retail is easier to fill.
Right now, being built in North Hills is:
Tower 4 (325,000 Com Office Space)
Tower 5 (300,000 Com Office Space)
The Walter (Lux Apartments)
Another Apartment complex next to tower 5
The Cardinal Expansion (Old People)
And Proposed
JCP renovation
Luxury Hotel next to the Walter
Apartments next to Tower 4
Tower 6 next to tower 5
So there is a lot of density still coming to NH.
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I attended some of the CAC meetings when Kane was proposing the expansion of NH east, and the issue with the gas station isnāt the rezoning, its the soil contamination below the surface that has them gun shy. Also neither Tower 5, the Walter or Cardinals expansion have begun yet, only Tower 4 and the Vine apartments are being built on the East side.
I moved away from NH because I couldnāt take the traffic, and I was one of a few homes that could walk there. There were simple infrastructure improvements that would alleviate some of the congestion that were ignored every time residents brought them up. The sign for 440W isnāt displayed until 5 feet before the exit, which is a very simple and cheap solution to fix the confusion it causes people unfamiliar with the exit, stuff like that.
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They will be redoing all of six forks from the belting to spring forest I believe.
I attended the Six Forks Rd. Corridor Study meetings as well, which actually began in 2012. I could be wrong but I didnāt see the funding for this in 2019. Either way the first phase was only for work from Rowan St (Fire station/Carroll Middle intersection) to Lynn road which is the opposite direction towards North Raleigh.
I hope it does finally come to fruition because it would have been the cityās first protected bike lanes.
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Wish they could go ahead and incorporate BRT into this somehow.
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One of the initial plans included a BRT lane. But people botched about it and wanted more lanes for cars instead.
