Yeah… I don’t even want to talk about that project. That whole project is the reason why the MBTA is in shambles and on life support
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And it’s passed the torch to California HSR for objectively great ideas so mired in mismanagement and bureaucracy that it’s all anyone thinks about w/r to them.
Just want to clarify since I started a bit of a frenzy over this…
I think height is inevitable. Raleigh is growing too fast and downtown is rapidly infilling. Many sites were rezoned DX-40. I have faith that something will deliver, I just don’t have faith in any one specific project.
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So is project on hold @JonathanMelton? Can the city ask for a status update in the next city council meeting before summer break? It’s a grass field with no construction activity and that’s very concerning.
If GoTriangle can’t even get this project done on time they were wildly optimistic about the Durham-Orange Light Rail plan.
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Was. It failed horrendously.
This is a GoTriangle project. I don’t have any reason to believe it’s on hold. Last I was told, some time ago, they plan to go vertical fall 2023 so it seems on pace for that timeline. But I can try to get more information. Hoffman is the private development partner, and they’re full steam on their Seaboard project. So that should be a good sign.
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Thanks for the update @JonathanMelton!
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I recently heard that it will start within the next 3-4 months.
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They have not applied for site permits based on the new ASR. I doubt that they could get approvals in 3 to 4 weeks. That usually takes a minimum of 3 review cycles at around a month each. But, we’ll see.
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So 3-4 months like he was saying? 
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Oops. For some reason I read it as 3 to 4 weeks. Yeah, what he said.
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Damn at this point maybe Kane should have gotten the contract.
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Build a good, not too value engineered 23 story tower here and it will still be an enormous improvement over what was there before. It’s only really sad in context of the original renderings 
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Holy hell… what a MAJOR disappointment this whole thing has become…
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If it is 23 floors, it will be no taller than the Dillon tower.
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I will say in the previous site permit submittals, the stories left out the parking levels. So, may be they did that here also. But still a major disappointment.
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I said enormous improvement, I didn’t say “skyline-defining moment”
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Only hope now is that the structure is so crappy it only has a 20 year life span before someone redevelops the site.
10 stories of parking is hardly an improvement lol
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