I wonder if that’s really his decision, or if he just thinks he needs to represent the “Livable Raleigh” crew.
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I truly hope they go back to the drawing board on that design for the Phase 1 Parking Deck w/ some apartments attached
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This seems to mostly be a Kane project now. I guess this is how Park City South is going to look? Not as bad as the plans suggested but still a significant disappointment from what was initially proposed.
Break ground next year, open 2023. “Future phases will include high-rise residential and office space with ground-level retail, the company said.”
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This is the project with the 7-story apartment building with the 11-story parking deck right? I literally don’t understand the point of that.
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I can only hope that the huge deck is an investment / commitment to more centralized structured parking, resulting in having to build fewer decks across the entire project. But we’ll see…
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I’d be fine with that… but you at least gotta wrap it with apartments!
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As in anything over 3 floors is a high-rise…I think that someone IS high! 
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Ugh, a mid-rise apartment building with high-rise parking. 
I understand the need for parking, especially somewhere like Raleigh with poor transit, but having a parking deck multiple stories higher than the main building is ridiculous.
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Southend in Charlotte had more than decade of poor low-rising projects before the current mid-rise boom happened. Now there’s going to be a $750 million high rise project planned there. So we can’t put the cart before the horse. Plus we can expect non-Kane/local developers to move in eventually and output high quality projects in the future in this area.
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Wonder if this deck will serve people driving to Dix. It will be near the new Plaza and Play and hopefully Dix won’t have much on-site parking in the future. At least this would warrant such a large parking structure.
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Supposedly this oversized parking deck will hold parking for this phase plus all further phases of the Park City South development. I’m still not happy about it, though. This’ll be very visible from a long way off & I really just wish they’d just mask it with another 2 or 3 floors of apartments.
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Exactly, the proposed condo building in downtown Durham is a high rise building not this mid-rise catastrophe.
Right. The choice not to is just so baffling to me.
Suspect that it’s because of the narrow block shapes, so that’s the only midblock spot where a garage fits. Then the rents currently only justify a mid-rise stick building, which isn’t tall enough to fully wrap the garage.
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Going above 7 stories, you’re out of the range that can be done with wood frame construction, and so it costs a great deal more.
Not baffling, I’d say, but definitely disappointing.
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From Biz Journals.
“A pair of developers has bought an assemblage of properties on the edge of Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh with plans to bring two 20-story towers to the site – and that’s just phase one.”
Total cost will be about 600M
Construction is slated to kick off mid next year
2nd phase will be more office and commercial
This a separate development than Park City South
Edit to add: Coming off the instant high from reading the headline is it conceivable that they really break ground next year when we haven’t seen any sort of renderings (unless I’ve missed something) and they don’t even have a name or exact unit count yet?
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Double down on the Kane corridor…
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Possible depending on how much has already been lined up. Sounds much better than the Park City South bait and switch
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Nice. That area is going to boom and I’m glad they are talking 20 stories, not more 6-story stick built.
I will be surprised if it starts next year, but I do think it is possible that they break ground at least on the horizontal infrastructure next year. The first phase just involves a couple of multi-family buildings.
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