I actually don’t mind the building itself. It feels like a modernist take on art deco. It’s at least more interesting than a blue glass box. But it should be downtown or in some other walkable urban area
Oh well; it was the 80s! Fingers crossed that our bare minimum standards for land use have improved over the past 40 years
It’s a cool building in an unusual location. I’d support disassembling it and moving it downtown. “Things that will never happen for $1000, Alex”
Probably has a great view of the hill country to the west. It’s in the perfect spot to get views of Couch Mountain, Duke Forest, and Blackwood Mountain. Too bad the restaurant requires a membership to prove you’re not “one of those poors”.
Gotta wonder and think who idea was it to put a building there.
I read somewhere that it was planned to be a multi-tower development originally. The first tower was built, and then economic conditions changed which cratered demand for the other planned buildings. By the time demand recovered, high rise development demand had pretty much fully shifted back to downtowns.
This was also built at a time when Downtown Durham was a place you avoided; of course that changed a couple of decades later. Also explains why Durham has a massive jail next to DPAC.
Yeah, @Yimbyforlife is an emotional roller coaster. Just because there aren’t tons of headlines and chatter, doesn’t mean anything. It’s the offseason and MLB is in a collective bargaining agreement negotiation that might last another year.
The work done this last year all but guarantees Raleigh will have everything they need to put forward a pitch that will be as competitive as any out there. It will ultimately come down to whether MLB chooses us, but they will have to tell Raleigh ‘No’.
There is no scenario where Raleigh doesn’t have a full pitch with all I’s dotted and T’s crossed.
Raleigh will be in the mix.
I have OCD, and am passionate about things like this a Raleigh. Anyways I might be in the mountains soon so I’ll be watching from afar, I need peace. I be there when Raleigh is announced as a expansion city I wonder what that’s gonna look like. But anyway as long as this is a fair bid and not unorganized and messy like MLS was. I to like at the end would like to see a competitive bid to the point the if MLB says no to us it would’ve been fair. I think Raleigh should start a pro sports commision to handle all things pro sports MLB, WNBA, PWHL, etc.
Bruh. I am diagnosed OCD and take daily medication to help mitigate the symptoms. Don’t use it as an excuse for crazy comments about baseball, please. That doesn’t make any sense. Thanks.
Seriously though, if you’ve never paid attention to the Hornets, now is the time. This team is scary, and absolutely nobody is going to want to play us in a best-of-7 playoff series. Despite starting off with a 4-14 record, which then snowballed into 16-28 due to a bunch of injuries, the Hornets are now 32-31, and just crushed a very good Celtics team in Boston (by nearly 30 pts!) for their sixth win in a row which is currently the longest win streak in the NBA. The final stretch is going to be tough, but the Hornets are comfortably in play-in playoff position currently, and have a pretty good shot at catching some of the teams in front of them for a guaranteed playoff seed.
Tom Dundon is selling a minority stake (12.5%) in the Hurricanes at a $2.66 billion valuation. I believe that is $325 million.
Recall that he originally bought a controlling stake in the team for $420 million in 2018.
To say he has done well is an understatement.
Jumps the Canes to a top 10 league valuation. Not bad for a “small market” team. I assume this is to help fund his Trailblazers purchase, but I’ll dream it’s for MLB.
well, also could be for funding the Lake Crabtree development or Lenovo District development?
I’m meeting a lot of people here being really confused by this and a whole lotta doubt. I know multiple people who would quit, rather than move but I would be excited by this 
quit because of how it would change their commute?
I can certainly see if you are Durham, this would be a big change - though you would be going against a lot of the traffic, so the drive might not be that bad …
Yeah, I have a number of coworkers who live in Durham, Apex, and Morrisville that need to go in every day. So, commuting into Raleigh wouldn’t be enjoyable for them. Apparently, we’re spending a lot of money upfitting labs here right now too, so to abandon all of that seems unlikely but anything’s possible.
We drive from the Lenovo Center area to Durham for work, and Morrisville is right down the road from us. They should get nicer cars so they enjoy their drive more. 
Been watching them it’s great for them.
Sorry for the way I phrased the comment. It’s just that we are working so hard, so long, for no money, and to come on a forum and have people say “the baseball bid is dead” is frustrating.
90% of this campaign is a battle of ideas and perception. We knew it would be hard to change perceptions of those throughout the nation (although we thought it could be done - and it is being done), but the thing that has been the most daunting is changing the mind of people who LIVE here in Raleigh. Never thought we’d have to fight so hard to build the belief of the people we thought would be the cheerleaders and champions of this fight from day one.
Lou, I Am A Strong Believer for Raleigh MLB Success! Yes , years back , I was also a doubter, but not now my friend. I was so hopeful that The Atlantic League would be in Zebulon this season and very disappointed on how this worked out Lou, but YES, “ Go Raleigh MLB” ! 
It’s mostly just one poster.