Where is this going to be?
4901 Page Rd., across I-40 from the IQVIA (formerly Quintiles) headquarters. Scroll up to here for more details.
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Hell yeah, this is great!
Interesting tidbit I had no idea about and found out this morning just readingâŚapparently Tom Dundon (Carolina Hurricanes owner) is the majority owner of TopGolf? It probably kills him a direct competitor (Drive Shack) is literally right in his backyard.
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Yup. A lot of Canes fans joked when he came in, that he should put a Top Golf on top of PNC Arena.
While Top Golf farted around looking for sites in Cary, Drive Shack got the drop on them by picking the site off of 54. I donât know how Top Golf missed that location, but it is embarrassing.
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The Page Road location should be a money maker for them though.
To be fair Top Golf kinda got screwed. They had the Cary Town Center site which would have been a perfect location in my opinion. But the neighbors of that area successfully got that project shut down.
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Couldâve just put it in Raleigh.
I believe the denial about the Top Golf had put Ikea on the table as I believe Ikea came after which I was ok with. Unfortunately Ikea backed out which I still donât understand. Ikea is not something that I use to say whether a city is better/not. I consider this a miss on Ikeaâs end.
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The Cary IKEA got caught up in the corporations re-imagining their retail operations. Their massive big box, usually suburban planâs been jettisoned for smaller, urban stores. Think massive showrooms shrunk to catalogue centers with home goods. Things you can carry on the metro, lol.
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If we just had a metro.
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True. I wonder if they could leverage that - like big outfits will leverage an exit ramp or road project? No Ikea for you unless you build a metro!!
It would be fantastic if IKEA put its smaller format 115k sqft store in Fenton (it would fit perfectly where Wegmanâs 102k sqft store was suppose to go). Or anywhere in the Triangle.
Only reason I could see the smaller, urban store happening in the Triangle now is more of a âsorry we had to cancel your storeâ
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âŚand if Ikeaâs were built in environments with them. The two in South Florida are huge and pushed so far west from their transit systems that cars are the only choice. The one in MiamiDade is practically in the Everglades.
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The one in ATL is the one I can think of that is anywhere close to being in a city center. They had the advantage in ATL of being part of a brownfield redevelopment, which is more pedestrian friendly that most new construction - but they are at the edge of the developmentâŚ
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Even that one (and Atlantic station as a whole) I guess you could get there by bus if you wanted but the closest Marta rail station is about a mile East. They do have a free shuttle butâŚyea at that point youâre jumping through 3 hoops to fit a square through a circle.
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And John kane wants to add 4 more high rise towers , 
impressive.
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