Make Raleigh Greater Again!
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Stopped by the Restoration Hardware in North Hills today. Itâs actually a pretty fun time. It was like being in a museum but you could touch the stuff and walk around with a drink. Iâm not in the market for a $10,000 couch, but itâs nice to pretend. I know Raleigh has a certain small crowd thatâs always dressed to the nines with fancy hair and make-up, and I see them at places like GEM, North Hills, etc. but it was kind of comical to see people who appeared to get dressed up to go to a furniture store.
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I would never get dressed up to go furniture shopping. I donât need to be validated by RH sales people or the others who are shopping there.
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I had a $15 flannel shirt from Amazon on because I had been getting a haircut right before. No one judged me too harshly once I had a glass of pink champagne
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Quit being a communist. You live in a luxury condo. Went to RH Friday night with Boltwoman. Good time, good atmosphere!
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Communist? Thatâs funny.
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Shot in the dark here, but I have been wracking my brain trying to remember if this project even existed:
On Glenwood just north of Crabtree there was a proposed development, maybe hotel and residential, but I canât entirely recall. But it was a wild proposal â I distinctly remember the colorful rendering with fountains and a curved building.
It obviously never came to fruition, but wondering if others remember this proposal.
I want to say it was around 2005-2008 just before the recession. It is driving me nuts trying to remember it.
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I think it was called Soleil, and was going to rise between Crabtree Creek and the building where Perryâs Steakhouse is. There was a building on that lot which was demolished sometime in 2006 and I believe foundation work was actually started on the tower sometime in 2007 or 2008 but stalled shortly thereafter. If you look at a satellite view of the site, you can still kind of see the foundation grid poking through all the undergrowth.
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There was⌠âCrabtree Northâ I think it was called⌠but I remember it being initially a lot taller and denser than this image I found.
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So far none of these are what I was thinking. Specifically, this was on Glenwood between Creedmoor and Rembert. The renderings were similar to Crabtree North thoâŚ
I think you may be talking about âCarolina Rowâ
This was all cancelled and replaced by the mediocre, absolutely bog-standard, surface parked garden apartment complex called Clairmont Crabtree.
This in turn led me to dub Crabtree Valley as âDisappointment Gulchâ: the place where development dreams go to die.
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Itâs weird as a 2020 move-in to think there was a time in recent memory people though the Crabtree Mall area would be interesting or up-and-coming.
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As recently as the 2002~2004 era, Crabtree was the spot in Raleigh.
Perhaps that only seems recent to me because Iâm old. But my, how the mighty have fallen.
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St. Albans construction video update 
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Sadly none of these are itâŚbut I will continue my research. Maybe Iâll find it. Again, I wanna say it was across Glenwood from the old Golden Corral headquarters.
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One positive outcome from all of this is that NH is seeing a lot of growth that resembles what these developments wouldâve looked like. Another positive outcome is that all of these developments are relatively close to Crabtree via 440.
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Donât forget the Kiddsâ Hill project that was also floated in the mid-2000s.
In retrospect, all of these plans failing probably created the market space for North Hills to hoover up all the retail and office demand â and even though it has its critics, the format is much less car dependent than having a bunch of towers next to, but not actually connected to, one another.
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