Amazing 70 degree peaceful night along the Atlanta Beltline and Ponce City market. We gotta make the Artery and track caps happen.
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I walked up and down Glenwood South tonight and a surprising number of folks were out, and places were open.
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I loveee that bold Ponce City Market sign. Wish Smoky Hollow placed their sign on the roofline like that. I’m sure you can see that sign from a far far distance. The only real place you can see the SH sign is from West & Tucker St.
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My only experience in Birmingham was attending the NC State v Rutgers bowl game back in 09 when I was in college. I remember Legion Stadium not being in the best part of town and the utter garbage experience of that game. Daniel Evans replacing an injured Russell Wilson after another crap NC State game.
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Thankfully Legion Field has been replaced with a nice stadium right downtown near by the convention center:
Almost anyone visiting Legion Field certainly left with a bad taste in their mouth.
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I was at that game as well
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It was surrounded by the projects, I was there as well. The funniest part was during pregame, the paratrooper team threw out neon smoke flairs trying to gauge the wind. A few got off course and landed in the middle of people standing outside completely unaware of what was going on. Needless to say they completely flipped out and took of running in every direction.
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Why won’t NC State consider this? Its like the fans live under an illusion that Carter-Finley is some sort of historic site….as if it was Alabama. Its not like the Stadium is 80 years old. Built in the 60’s, right?
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One of the lone positives I remember from that game was the stadium was selling alcohol inside. This is was something that just passed here a year or so ago? That new stadium looks a million times better than the old Legion one for sure.
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It’s not that secret, but Greenville, SC has been on a list of great cities. I went down to Charlotte to drop my wife at the airport and had intentions of biking around Charlotte. After finding out that their greenways don’t really connect to each other, I went down to Greenville, SC with my friend who was with us. It’s not my first time to Greenville, SC but I will say that I am really happy with the changes that are happening there.
Note: For all images if you right click and then open the image in a new tab, you will see the full image. I made them 50% for easy readability.
This mixed use development is right in the middle of downtown. I really like the top canopies and is a design that I would really like to see at Smokey Hollow (or something at least on this level).
As mentioned the development was right downtown. Directly across is the Peace Center Performing Arts Center. They have the travelling Broadway shows. I’ve seen Anastasia and Aladdin at DPAC. The shows are top notch.
Of course you can’t go to Greenville and not visit Falls Park on the Reedy. I really liked being able to rent a bike ($25/half day for normal bike) right next to the greenway and also loved the fact that you could rent an e-bike ($55/half day). I opted for the normal bike and was able to pull a 26 mile ride. We rode to the southernmost tip of the greenway and then headed north to the town of Travelers Rest.
Due to time, I didn’t get to do much in Traveler’s Rest. I loved that they had a map right along the greenway. There were restaurants right off the trail which was also a great plus. Really impressive for a city of 5k people.
Again due to time, we didn’t get a chance to explore a whole lot else off the greenway. In Greenville, there was another park, called Unity Park, that is currently being developed. It already had some shops and a food hall along the greenway as well.
Overall it was a great trip and I can say I have intentions to explore this area quite a bit more. It’s been a favorite city of my friend who also went.
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Thanks for the pictures and summary, enjoyed reading! Greenville is a city I want to spend more time in. It was on our list when we were deciding where to live (ultimately picked here of course). My general takeaway is that Greenville is a great city for its size (especially the downtown), but the Greenville metro still has a lot of work to do, if that makes sense.
We went down this past year and thought it was just a great city. We’re specifically seeing Jim Jefferies (comedian) there in May as an excuse to visit again! If RDU would do direct, frequent flights, I’d probably visit every few months LOL!
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For all the Apex/Holly Springs folks active and lurking on the threads, this should make you happy. Saw this today and thought I’d share it. The Wake County Board of Commissioners approved funding for two separate greenways. The Middle Creek Greenway, which will be a greenway trail connecting both the Apex and Holly Springs greenway systems, and the Apex West Greenway. The Apex West will connect the existing Beaver Creek Greenway to the American Tobacco Trail, which will let someone (if they wanted) be able to walk/bike from Downtown Apex all the way to Downtown Durham via a greenway.
Here’s more info on the Apex West Greenway and the Middle Creek Greenway.
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https://downtowndurham.com/new-development-map/
I’m definitely impressed with how much Downtown Durham is expanding.
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Pretty unique 19-unit apartment complex from an existing building in Downtown Durham
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Interesting tiny Downtown Raleigh has more residents than Downtown Jacksonville, Fl and we’re building a lot more new units. DTR has 8,627 residential units while this article about Jacksonville says DTJ has 6,830 residents.
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My favorite tidbit from this article is this:
“The issue with this is not the hotel itself; it could turn out great. But vibrancy is less about landing that one big project and more about concentrating a lot of different things in close proximity. In other words, the “Three C’s” of urban development: the clustering of complementing uses within a compact setting.”
Raleigh has been quietly delivering on the 3 C’s. One can argue that it’s been so quiet that folks don’t perceive that there’s any movement…but there is! This is most evident on the west side of downtown with a large laundry list of projects delivered these past 2 decades that have transformed how we think about downtown experiences. Most all of the housing has been delivered since then in a generally small area, as has Citrix, The Dillon, Union Station, Smoky Hollow, OneGlenwood, TwoHillsborough, 2 hotels, MSFH, dozens of restaurants and nightlife venues, Raleigh Crossing (phase 1), CAM, etc.
It’s interesting to me how Jax sells itself “up” to peers like Tampa and Orlando, both of which are substantially larger metro areas. Heck, even Nashville is larger. IMO, JAX is a sprawling ruse of a city that has had huge infrastructure investment in freeways because people have to go through it on the 95 corridor. It’s also a ruse due to its inflated population numbers in a city that approaches the size of Wake County.
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In the article, they also say that DT Jax is almost 4 square miles. That’s nearly 4X the area of Raleigh’s official DT. That said, I am not sure what boundaries are being used when counting Raleigh’s DT residential units/residents.
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Stayed overnight last weekend and was super surprised at how awesome the downtown was, very interesting and the purple street lights are surely different.