Dang I like the first rendering much better than that.
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Wouldnât it be sunlight infringement? I just want to make sure you have your lawsuit framed properly.
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My thoughts on the no retail aspect is that theyâre currently starting the 5-over-1 you recently shared that will be right across the street and feature 6,000 sq ft of retail, so no big deal.
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Jake doesnât care about GFRâ˝ Has hell frozen over??
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@John North Hills is starting to remind me of like Coconut Grove along US1 with all the buildings basically being parking podiums and residential above.
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Miami has a lot of residential towers, and I mean A LOT. Because of the water table, most are sitting either on top of a parking podium or beside an attached or detached parking garage. Other than the cost, thereâs no reason why more of the parking at North Hills canât be underground. Iâd argue that the OG North Hills district is the best one because much of its parking is buried under it.
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The western part of NH sits on Falls leucogneiss, the eastern part on Raleigh gneiss. Building a multi-level underground parking garage means blasting, excavating, and hauling away a large quantity of tough rock. Not only expensive but disruptive to the neighborhood. You think youâve got NIMBY problems now?
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I dig that thereâs still an empty lot next door for a future tower. North Hills starting to really look like itâs own city.
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Which is this? The Strand?
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What was the zoning for this, 20 stories?
Good, I really wish they would finish that side off.
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Iâm pretty sure this was just upzoned to 20 in the recent rezoning.
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starting to look like a city? It has almost as many high rises as downtown Greensboro. It is already there.
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It just needs a little more girth for me to look like a city and not⌠a strip of buildings in a glorified office park. I think the eventual expansion across 440 into the Computer Dr area will help with that - and as a bonus, will also bring the North Hills border that much closer to downtown.
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Maybe its just me, but expansion across the beltline would also help it feel more like a âMidtownâ and not just a stretched out âNorth Hillsâ
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Yes but itâs limited by the 440-Six Forks interchange. In a world with infinite funds and a NCDOT that was not maniacally spending on âmoar lanesâ, theyâd completely redo that interchange. Unless you cap the highway or do bridges from Church at North Hills Drive, itâs going to just be little pods across from each other and not a consistent area. Right now, walking from The Eastern to Computer Drive is 1/3 mile in very hostile traffic. Thereâs so much wasted space between them.
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There are two planned addition connections: a new bridge connecting the roads off of Computer Dr to the North Hills East area, and a pedestrian/bike bridge connecting near Wegmans (Industrial Dr) to the Midtown Exchange area.
Iâd love to see even more connections like these added in the future.
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There is a planned bridge across the Beltine that will connect St. Albans to Barret Drive.
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