It needs a lot of users to be successful. Miami’s core has filled in like no tomorrow this decade and is still going gangbusters. To connect it to the mall redevelopment discussion, they’ve added Brickell City Centre and are constructing high street retail at Miami World Center right now. But, seriously, there tens of thousands of new residences around the people mover stops.
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No doubt. To say that area is booming is an understatement.
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Macy’s upgrade at Crabtree. Only store being upgraded in NC, but about 20% or stores company wide.
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https://amp.newsobserver.com/news/business/article235231557.html
I think this is where anything to do with North Hills goes.
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If that’s the case, here’s tower 4 from earlier this week
To relate it to DTR, you can now see T4 poking up above the trees from McDowell heading north thru DT
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All that parking!!! 
Woah that’s moving fast.
I believe this deck will serve as parking for this office tower as well as the planned the 38 story apartment / hotel tower that will adjoin it.
You mean there is going to be a building that is not perched 8 floors up over parking — the horror 
, how dare they not build a big parking deck before putting building on top of it 
This one does not appear to be convertible into office/residential floor plates in future, like the Dillon. If you’re unsure what I’m talking about, visit the Dillon parking deck and notice that each floor plate is flat, not ramped.
36 story Walter Tower has 882 parking spaces as well.
Well then… That is a lot of f***ing parking.
The funny thing is how many folks use the free parking at NH who take the bus elsewhere. (No specific data, but my nephew works at Allscripts and fed me that little tidbit.)
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Very cool! Looking at that, I feel Walter tower will look a lot taller than 384 feet
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Any news on the cardinal expansion?
I know that it has received the site review approval. I don’t know if they have submitted for a building permit.
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PRT is a complete waste of resources. The utility of transit is allowing more people to commute in a smaller space than they’d take up in cars. It can work in campus settings where the population density is a certain level, and the road network serves the area inefficiently causing a need for transit, but it can never scale up to meet the needs of an actual city.
What you will see from every transit proposal put forward by someone with a lot of experience in paying other people to do stuff for them, and zero experience in planning, is a desperate effort to make it ‘not rail’ somehow.
TBJ Paywall Story
A developer proposed a 636K sf apartment community adjoining Triangle Town Center mall. It would include 484 units with a mix of senior living and affordable family apartment options.
The project would consist of 11 buildings that would be 3 and 4 stories tall.
Prices would range from $832 to $1,181; it should be built out by 2022.
(Of course this would be perfect to connect to a rail line to downtown, but no one’s talking about that at the moment).
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Gawd…look at all that surface parking lot. 
Amusing only because this was detailed in the Northeast Raleigh Small Area Plan from back around 2000 or so. (It’s so old that it’s fallen off of the City of Raleigh’s planning website). I wondered as to when somebody was going to finally do some further residential development.
Check out the Triangle Transit Regional Rail Plan FEIS from the 1990’s. Oh, yeah, that’s ancient history, too.
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