I guess this is the new normal for TTC.
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North Hills Thursday. North Hills both sides of Six Forks and yes I crossed with other brave pedestrians. Newest apartment tower crane up in NHID.
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Yeah, I donât know what the big deal is crossing Six Forks Rd. at North Hills. I have done it several times. The crosswalk signal gives me plenty of time to cross. Sure it would be great to have Six Forks be a narrow street, but it is what it is when youâre dealing with near total car dependency.
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It is a very wide street with multiple turning lanes. I do think a pedestrian tunnel from Cowfish to the new developments planned by Kane on the surface lots on the main retail side should be built. The city should have required at least a traffic island in those rezoning requests.
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There has been unserious conversation about a bridge over it. While a tunnel might be a better solution, I suspect that it might need to be policed more so than a bridge. Alas, I doubt that NH gets either.
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A bridge would only work if there are two simultaneously constructed buildings on both sides of Six Forks, which appears very unlikely to happen unless First Citizens decides to move and sell their office buildings.
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ASR-0030-2026 submitted for âNHID Expansion Building 1 on the Midline Subdivision (SUB-0068-2025). This building will be mixed-use.â Lot 1 is in red - wonder if they start there.
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I understand the reasoning for not wanting to connect to the driveway entrance to the 1000 Social Parking Deck to North Hills St, but there should be a connecting street there. It would help better connect the grid system and prevent potential connectivity issues and traffic congestion.
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Maybe connecting Oculus with the street separating the 6- & 20-story buildings? Any other connecting road would disrupt the waterways too much for my liking, given the work they have done in cultivating that natural environment.
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It would probably be best to let the street youâre referencing be a dead-ending street. I was referring to the extended North Hills St not connecting to the Oculus Dr. (vertically on the map). A pedestrian plaza connecting the two streets could be helpful.
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At the pace they are going, Kane will have this built out before Dewitt completes another building on their property. They cleared all that land I think right before the pandemic, and have built exactly one building and one parking deck in 6 years.
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What I wanna know is how long until either Kane or the underwhelming-as-hell âMidtown Exchangeâ developer will buy and connect Benson Dr and then start developing all the low-rise office complexes (red) with dense development:
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Iâm afraid that TTC is headed to court whenever it does get redeveloped. The mall itself is owned by one company, and at least two department store boxes are owned by a different company (one seemingly set up to speculate). Generally, a successful mall redevelopment requires unified ownership, if only to abolish the legal restrictions that each party has over the other. Redevelopment by multiple parties has happened, but only in exceptionally good circumstances â Friendly Center and Aventura Mall come to mind as places where Seritage (ex-Sears owner) pursued redevelopment separately. (At Aventura, the Sears box eventually got re-sold back to the mall owner.)
One mall outside Jackson has largely been repurposed by medical and educational users. The idea of indoor walking space is nice, but somebody has to pay for it â and that much common space is just too expensive for residents only to pay for.
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As someone whoâs spent a lot of time in Tokyo, Iâm very familiar with pedestrian bridges over streets with high traffic volume. Those bridges are hell for the elderly and disabled unless (as CivilFuture already said) there is a building at both ends or there is enough space on the ends to extend the bridge and keep the incline within the ADA limit. Tunnels have the same problem⌠the pedestrian tunnel under Trinity Rd between the Fairgrounds and Carter-Finley had to have zig-zag ramps to comply, and those take valuable space.
Brier Creek is doing alright. The population along the Durham-Raleigh boundary at Leesville Road continues to skyrocket, and thereâs still a lot of open acreage out there.
I agree that TTC is likely to be razed. Converting the existing structure to residences would almost certainly be more expensive than tearing it down and starting over.
Reality is that the Capital Blvd corridor between 440 and 540 is becoming one of Raleighâs troubled neighborhoods, now that downtown has been gentrified and east Raleigh is next on the gentrification agenda.
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That corridor hasnât ever really been highly desirable. Also, that mall never made sense to me in that location among car dealerships and big box stores. Instead of the mall uplifting the area, the area dragged it down.
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Looks like the Life Time tower at Midtown Exchange (or whatever weâre calling it this week) is actually moving forward. I had pretty much written this one off as a stalled project.
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Iâm still taking this with an atom of a grain of salt. Theyâve said this was moving forward like 3x now and itâs still⌠not currently âmoving forwardâ in any tangible capacity 
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Im with you on this. I need to see concrete and rebar going up now before I buy in on any project
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They have building permits, but do they have the financing?
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