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Anytime the RR is involved with anything, expect your project to be derailed.

I was working on a roadway realignment outside of Atlanta that was about 3 miles. Just a roadway not a freeway, it started in 2014, it JUST finished. Railroads absolutely run the road.

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Heh that’s very punny.

The article said 7 years at this point. That is really insane. This is why I tune out the commuter rail / light rail discussions. Even if they get funding and a plan, it’ll be 30 years before it’s done and I’ll be too old to care.

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Nice condo project in Durham.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/600-N-Roxboro-St-32-Durham-NC-27701/2066652959_zpid/

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That design is beautiful

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Looks like the Bull City Ciderworks in Cary is opening this weekend. Got a nice location too, directly across the street from Bond Bros. Brewery.

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Holy shit that is a million dollars

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For nearly a million bucks, I don’t think that I’d want to share a bedroom wall with the second bedroom. Does anyone know what construction type this is?

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for a million bucks i wouldnt want to live in downtown durham…

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I don’t know man- not that I’d pay a million dollars to live anywhere, but… downtown Durham is pretty fking rad… in fact, I hate to admit how cool Durham has become :sweat_smile:

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street looks pretty much empty

i think they grow a lot of onions up there too.


greater nevada field in reno, nv…casinos, pubs and a few restaraunts surround the field. nice summer event and bus service that runs to 3am on a few routes.

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Drove through some of my usual areas of downtown Durham just now, and the amount of construction in some areas is absolutely transformational. Especially coming off 147, and also by Fullsteam. Also thought this was a neat contrast. Out with the old, and in with the new.

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I had zoomed in the pic, is that where they are going to build the high rise apartment tower.

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yep! the novus.

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Thanks, i had seen it on the news a few months ago about another high rise apartment in downtown Durham, but i wasn’t sure. Ok. Thanks again.

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I have no problem with all the development in Durham that gets rid of surface parking, overgrown lots, and junkyard/automotive repair even as some residents bemoan the ā€œcharacterā€ being lost and how ā€œno oneā€ can afford the apartments (except all the people living in them). But this is concerning: Durham Distillery may have to close if the developer next door can’t figure out how to not block their loading dock with a retaining wall.

https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2022/03/01/new-downtown-durham-development-poses-threat.html

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What I can’t understand is how one goes about investing $4M in a building without having an access easement for their own loading dock.

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It’s a fair question, and similar to my reaction to people who rent a space for 30 years and never think to buy it. I’d assume it was their first attempt at their own business, in a wide open, underused area of Durham, and they didn’t really think about it.

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Yeah my first thought was ā€œwell you should have thought of that huhā€, but that probably shows how much of a jaded cynic I am more than anything else

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