I like to ride through these blocks of southeast Raleigh and look at the ratio to new or renovated construction to original or dilapidated. Most of the blocks closer to downtown are well over 50% new or renovated. Interesting to watch. Then you have the lone urban pioneer with the only new house on the block. Don’t turn this into a gentrification post, just fascinating to watch.
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It’s actually one of the many reason my wife and I enjoy walking around the neighborhood each week. Recently we have seen many of the smaller sized apartment buildings (4-10 units) become renovated instead of torn down, which helps keep some of the character of the neighborhood. Also these aren’t major renovations more like a make-over with new roof, siding and updated interior. Here is an example below a friend of mine just completed on Lenoir St.
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Was just commenting to my wife ‘This is a cool project…!’
I have a lot of photos for this area, if anyone wants ones for a particular address or block. Here’s a few for the Cooke Street blocks
Pre-Project Cooke 
Clearing same block, west side of Cooke
Phase II of Cooke Street/Seawell, east side
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Yea he did a really good job, here is another example we just noticed the other night on Davie St right across the street from Hunter Elementary and Davie St park.
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There is another 4 unit getting the same treatment on the corner of State St. and Lenoir
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Raleigh affordable housing folks have done a bunch of buying up, tearing down and rebuilding stuff north of Edenton. Cooke St. e.g. It starts life with income mins and maxes but can be resold without penalty after a certain number of years (5 I think). But since it starts off as affordable, they don’t have the size or style to command really expensive prices later on. Just an observation about how many of the lots out there never hit the private market because the City handled it.
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I had a long term project in mind to try and find an actual photo of every structure on the 1914 Sanborn map and create an online interface so you could see them when mousing over the map.
A harder one still, was to do the same for the Drie map…the antebellum stuff along New Bern and Hargett is super hard for me to find pics of…anyway might hit you up sometime.
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I think some of the earliest were 5 year recapture agreements, the second phase of Cooke and the ones in East College Park are 10 years. If the City ends up doing homeownership on the Lane-Idlewild site I imagine it may be even longer.
Unfortunately most of my pictures are after 2000. Sorry, should have clarified that. So before the latest wave of redevelopment but not historical.
Has Empire ever indicated what they plan to do with the almost 8 acres they own at 600 New Bern?
The 625 and 801 New Bern projects got be thinking of the potential infill here…
600newbern-dev.pdf (3.3 MB)
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If it’s Empire, I’m going to assume the answer to “what are they going to do with it?” is “nothing”.
The .pdf seems fairly logical, especially the road extensions.
Just noticed this one today on a midday walk. This is where the cat status sits on the 500 block of East Hargett across from the cemetery.
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These homes will be fairly nice, but I wonder why they decided to build row homes instead of townhomes.
Here are a few stats on the new homes:
- Elevator and two car garage
- 3 bedrooms and 2.2 baths? (what is .2 of a bathroom? The mirror?)
- Rooftop access and skyline views
- Quality Craftsmanship and thoughtful design
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Update from the City on the Lane St/ Idlewild Ave affordable housing proposals (top 4 narrowed down from 34 received).
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I think Archive and RALT have the nicest proposals. CASA is only proposing 11 units, which is not dense enough for this neighborhood, and I don’t like Merge’s plans for common spaces (just feel like people should have their own contained units). Aesthetically, I think I like Archive’s the most.
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I too like Archive best, though I am intrigued about the co-living option that Merge proposed, I think that these two different approaches target different audiences. It would seem to me that the Archive proposal may better fit the longer term needs of moderate income households that would stay there for quite some time, while the Merge product targets life transition stages like early in career and late in life residents. Both seem like valid ideas.
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Archive looks great, but I wonder how the people who move in are going to feel about the walls being all glass.
Those are definitely not intended to convey glass walls. It’s just a stylized conceptual rendering to show the massing, which I understand can be confusing when some of the other proposals are rendered more literally.
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