This point sounds more negative from my POV and not something to show off from another city. Let’s keep this thread on-topic with positive vibes and pics from other cities.
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Sorry, my bad. Point noted.
Just the construction in one block of downtown Durham around Geer St and Rigsbee St.
And a bonus just outside that area.
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Panama City, Panama with a $5 bike rental viewed from the causeway, and a shipping ship shipping ships at the Panama Canal.
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Lots of good activity in Durham, too!
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The thing I really appreciate about Durham’s recent development is that it’s developing individual blocks one at a time and quite a few of them too. Pretty soon theres gonna be few surface parking lots or underdeveloped blocks left in downtown proper without a nice 5 over 1 apartment complex. Raleigh obviously has more going on statistically but because its so much bigger theres a lot more dead spaces in between all the new stuff that’ll take a while to fill in. Raleigh also seems to have a lot more “lifestyle center” types of developments where multiple blocks/lots are used for one massive developments leaving less variety in the urban fabric. (Thinking about seaboard station and smoky hollow)
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New Lexington Market in Baltimore:
These “amphitheater stairs” have been a trend for quite a while, but this is one of the few that actually goes somewhere useful (between two street entrances at different levels) and so one of the few I’ve seen well-used.
New traffic circle on Frankford Ave, a diagonal street in Philadelphia:
The “mountable” area here – where truck tails are allowed to swing, but car drivers aren’t supposed to go – is slightly raised, patterned/stamped concrete, rather than just painted. Also, a nice new flatiron building!
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My grandma and great grandma grew up right across the train tracks from dt K town. It has changed so much since we used to visit as a kid. If you havent already, definitely hit The Gem for a movie if you ever have time to kill.
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It is very nice and had a lot of people out in the shops and restaurants; also, the baseball stadium is a city park during the day that you can walk around (not on the field, of course!)
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Asheville highlighted in this video in a positive way.
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Interesting article about East Coast Greenway related projects in Durham (and Philly). Obviously, it also runs through Raleigh as well.
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This is how they mix the old development with the new in Lisbon. See the new high rises in the distance. We have literally seen sleek steel modern buildings right up against buildings from the 1300s. Not a lot of height here but they do seem ok with mixing it up at least occasionally.
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This is a fun one - a developer has decided to test San Francisco’s new density bonuses and other aspects of its planning rules by proposing a 50 story tower in the middle of a lowrise coastal neighborhood.
Honestly, it’s next to public transit, SF needs housing, I hope they get something like it through.
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What about those shadows?
But I agree, San Fran desperately needs housing.
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Ashburn, VA, with the new end of the Silver Line visible in the distance. Flats at Moorefield Station, single floor condos with shared elevator and individual 2-car garages. 48’ deep, 60’ wide, under $900K. A slightly denser + less pricey alternative to the popular $1M elevator townhouses; would be an even better deal if (a) could be built under “residential” code rather than commercial building code; (b) could be done with a single staircase instead of two.
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OMG, pass the popcorn for what’s going to happen next.
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We need some of the developers in Philly to transplant over to Raleigh. These are a few of many projects currently under construction:
(Pictures are from RisingRealEst on Twitter)
https://twitter.com/risingrealest/status/1646925854599962646?s=46&t=SaaEOInxhn1HuxgnOqLbLw
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