Red Hat Amphitheater and Outdoor Music

You’re invited to join us for an information session on plans to relocate Red Hat Amphitheater. Staff from multiple City departments will host this free event in the lobby of Memorial Auditorium at the Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9.

There will be short presentations and opportunities to ask questions about:

Light refreshments will be offered, and free childcare will be provided by Raleigh Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Resources staff.

Free event parking will be available at the surface lots across from the performing arts center. You will need to walk through a metal detector and have your bag searched upon entering the building.

View the event listing with the latest information, FAQs, and agenda. This is also where you can submit your questions in advance.

We hope to see you there!

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Excited to hear more about the Strollway plans, this will probably end up being some sneaky critical bike/ped infrastructure to connect Downtown and Dix Park.

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Agreed - Though it needs a better name. Strollway sounds like something from the 1950’s

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I will give it the City for at least trying to hold multiple informational sessions on said Red Hat ie South Street closure. Regardless of the outcome and regardless of the late hour of such outreach, they are doing outreach before potentially (or not) cracking the proverbial gavel.

It would be nice if they did that on other matters within the City. But I digress.

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with that said, on a trip back to Brentwood several months ago I thought some of the mod-outs of old split foyers and split levels…even some of the early ranches on brentwood road looked kind of neat.

Chavis- Dix velo-duct?

in watching some complaints about a year long closure of temporary red hat amp and economic impacts in dt raleigh, could you possibly shift ‘some’ events into Fayetteville st in the interim to mitigate alleged impacts? assuming the complaints at city council have merit.

My understanding is there won’t be a closure. Current RH through next year (2025) then the new one is ready for the 2026 season.

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Yep, Bill King from the DTRA mentioned that in this interview from last week on the NC F&B Podcast.

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I might be wrong but I thought the advantage to this whole plan of moving the site to a completely new parcel was to build new on the separate parcel to not shut down for a season, then open up the new venue and demolish the old one to then proceed with phase 2 (starting the convention center addition)

That’s what @JDenny replied with:

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Is this vote tomorrow? I can’t keep up with everything on this project. If so, one last email to your city councilors would be helpful.

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Yes! I just sent another round of emails to councilors/mayor.

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You can also leave a message that is made part of the minutes. You have until 5 pm today. To leave a public comment for the City Council, call 855-925-2801 and enter code 3362 . Voicemails are accepted between 5 p.m. Thursday and 5 p.m. Monday before a Tuesday Council meeting, and reviewed by City Council prior to the meeting. 1 per person per meeting.

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seems this thing has been pretty much rubber stamped at this point.

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I can’t be there for personal reasons, but ill send an email.

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We need to triple stamp the double stamp.

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I actually double stamped the double stamp thus calling and sending emails. I can’t be there in person as I will be having loads of fun traveling through RDU tomorrow. But I will be hoping that the double triple stamp thingie works and that the votes are there in favor of Red Hat.

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I believe this is the link to the session where there’s a link to the live stream for those of us unable to go to support in person.

https://raleighnc.gov/government/events/city-council-afternoon-session-26

And this should take you to the specific agenda item if you’re interested:
https://go.boarddocs.com/nc/raleigh/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=D8JN2T5DB265

Note, the name for the agenda item was from back in March. There is no consideration for impacts to closing Lenoir.

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It seems that there been a lot of support for Red Hat, so I’m hopeful this will go through, but you never know.

I emailed City Council with my support and I hope others have as well.

If it does go through, it will be fun to keep up with the new design. I think the renderings that have been released so far are mostly conceptual.

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