Thanks for the suggestion, Jim. I played around with it as well and was able to filter out a bit of noise, but ultimately once you remove “pipes”, much of the path of the urban stream goes away. A few shots I gathered.
Filtered as well as I could manage:
Without “pipes” on:
I know some neighbors refer to Cemetery Branch as Grassy Branch.
Guess which I’d use in an MLS listing.
Some progress at E Lane and N State. These 2 went up in about 2 weeks. There should be one more to come behind these facing Lane.
Does anyone have an update on this prime location? While many of the “back of the house” functions of the DMV have moved to Rocky Mount, the “front of the house” remains on New Bern Avenue (as of December 2020).
Same. I think it could be something really impactful. Can’t help but admit that I live real close so color me very interested. I’m also hoping that a complete change of this property also affects the parking lots across Hargett.
I would not hold my breath waiting on this block to see movement. A) it is the State B) You have a republican legislature who has ZERO interest in doing anything progressive to help NC cities…especially the State Capital. As long as they have the majority we will be staring at this underutilized site for a long time…
Yeah, that’s probably right. Since the building probably has no renovation potential and is a complete demo job, should we place bets on when it gets blown up to make way for a parking lot? I’ve got money on 2028.
If they had any sense they’d realize it’s prime location and sell it to a developer for millions.
From the article linked below; way back in 2018 the estimated renovation cost was $73M and rebuilding was estimated at $93M.
I don’t know if you can enlighten us on how Atlanta deals with state owned land or not, but Raleigh has quite a bit of government owned property in the city center. Among the state, the county, and the city itself, there’s a bunch of property that’s “off the market”. There’s been a lot of talk here in the past about our wish for consolidation of government services into towers to free up land for more private development, but that idea moves like molasses on a cold Winter day.
Also, @UncleJesse is right when he infers that the state legislature couldn’t care less about what would be good for Raleigh.
The footprint of downtown Atlanta is so big that they really have just kept their district in and around the capital. There hasn’t really been much interaction between the capital district, the entertainment district and the hotel area.
Lucky them! On the flip side, if done correctly within our context, Raleigh has the opportunity to be denser in the city center with all districts having quasi-reasonable walking access to the other districts in our core. Trying to find the silver lining here. 
I actually prefer downtown Raleigh even in its current state to Atlanta. You honestly can’t walk to any two districts in Atlanta.
Oh they know…they just don’t care
To be fair, the city of Raleigh has some prime properties also that nothing has happened with in years and years. It’s not particularly a political thing.
Great picture, but not sure where that is. Is it on New Bern?
That’s the north side of that property, along Edenton.
