South Street and East Streets are the only uninterrupted original Raleigh street boundaries. North Street is fragmented and as we know West Street MAY be reconnected to its original location near Union Station in the future. These streets were laid out in the original Christmas design from 1792. Worth keeping…
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City needs to get together and work on a cohesive master plan for the ampthiteater, Western Blvd intersection/ connection to Dix, and Hertiage Park. Opportunity to enhance all 3 with some coordination.
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See but this would make too much sense and have too much foresight! Raleigh is great at lacking any sort of planning ahead, that’s for sure. Just do stuff without consideration for other stuff and then figure out the other stuff when the current stuff is done - even if it clearly won’t work out.
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Who doesn’t like Christmas design?
History is, like it or not.
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It is a bit of whiplash bouncing between threads full of people complaining about endless studies and planning and no construction and then comments like this.
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[Moving the amphitheater south of south st] I would also say that the Omni makes a lot more sense across the street from the convention center instead of catty corner from it and would leave that site available for more residential and retail (netting two high-density towers instead of 1)
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Can’t believe they would break up the street grid with 4 parks and a capitol building, smh
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This section of Lenoir St is closed once a week during concert season, and the world doesn’t end.
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Sometimes this forum devolves into SimCity/armchair planner and this is one of those times. I also prefer daydreaming to my day job but let’s try not to get mad about it.
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Just put Redhat on the roof of the RCC expansion.
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Of the two options, closing South St seems like the better choice and what they are proceeding with. I think the bigger issue is that they limited themselves to those constraints and didn’t seem to consider any other options.
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Yes yes yes yes yes! Totally agree!
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Seems like I said that exact thing when the RCC expansion discussion first started…
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Somebody install the river downtown we’ve been talking about for so long!
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I mentioned canals… this would be better though.
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Lenoir is a much more important E/W connector because it’s not interrupted east to west like South St. On the east side of downtown, South St. already ends at East St., and it never really recovers after that. Lenoir is at least connected from Boylan all the way to Rock Quarry and then some as it eventually terminates in a cul-de-sac in a residential neighborhood.
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Does anyone know if the crossing closings at Hargett & Cabarrus would be temporary or permanent?
Because there is literally no in-between in this city. It’s either endless studies that don’t go anywhere and just get abandoned after years of nothing happening, or complete lack of foresight and just bulldozing 100 year old buildings to throw up a parking deck and a box on top with no consideration for street activation or infrastructure improvements.
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ShakesFistAtSky x ClutchesPearls memes = RAL_e_Wood
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