Ever been? Excellent jerky, clean bathrooms. They are all off interstates, so what’s the big deal.? You need to take a road trip. The Lime scooters downtown only go so far.
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If anyone find out, let me know. It used to be forum.buildingbullcity.com, but it’s been really slow recently (I’m hoping the forums will pick back up once we come through the other end of the current project pipeline drought).
That’s the Novus. It is supposed to be near 300ft, which is the height limit for downtown Durham. The current tallest downtown is right at the limit too, at 297ft.
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It’s Mebane. It exists to be a place in between other bigger places and Buccee’s is incredible for road trips. It’s perfect.
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I drive by there pretty often. The base of the tower, which looks more like the typical 5 over 1 (but is all concrete and steel framed) is much further along than the upper floors. My guess is that they will open the lower floors to residents and start leasing shop space while they finish the tower portion.
Other big Durham projects:
- YMCA tower: No movement, current YMCA still open
- American Tobacco Campus Phase II: No movement. I read they are waiting to secure tenants/financing
There is always new 5 over 1 apartments going up though. I can think of 5 under construction right now, and every time one finishes a new one breaks ground
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Relatively speaking, there’s a good amount of greenway construction going on in Charlotte. As of this post, we have 69 (nice!) miles of greenways within Mecklenburg County. Not amazing numbers compared to Raleigh/Cary, but not completely terrible. However, over the course of this year, we should see the completion of another 16.4 miles, and begin construction on an additional 8 miles. Apparently between now and 2030 we will be adding roughly 117 miles worth of greenway trails (already funded), which should put us close to 200 miles of greenways by that point. The current master plan calls for 344 miles total in Mecklenburg County.
Also, for a traditionally pretty rural/suburban county, Cabarrus County has made some decent progress recently around Concord and Kannapolis. Still a lot that needs to be built and connected, and it will probably be a while until we see anything connections towards Charlotte, but good to at least see the effort.
The lake towns (Huntersville/Cornelius/Davidson) already have a moderately extensive greenway network, even into some pretty rural areas. Sounds crazy to say but I think it will grow to be one of the best greenway networks in the state, despite how suburban everything is. The McDowell Creek greenway is going to be pretty legit once everything is built out.
https://charlotte.axios.com/347308/charlotte-mecklenburg-greenway-projects-to-watch-2024/
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Link to my post earlier. We should really just have a thread for Durham. There are plenty 5/1s that I didn’t cover as well.
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I don’t think a Durham thread is needed. This is a great thread to show off things from different cities.
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I feel like there could be a “neighboring cities” thread to separate this thread with local-ish to global cities related posts from regional cities.
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This is a community for DT Raleigh, and I think that Leo has been very generous already to have topics such as this one. I suspect that this topic is so that Raleigh can learn from what other cities are doing. I would highly suspect that a specific Durham topic would just result in Durham having a de facto community within a community, and I think that’s a bridge too far.
If Downtown Durham wants its own community website, someone is certainly free to create one, but I think it’s unfair to ask that this community hosts a de facto community within a community.
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I’ve put it out there, mildly though, that I’d set up a site just like this one and hand the keys, and bills, over to someone so that it exists as a sister site.
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If you want to pay the bills (kidding), I’d happily run it. We’re pretty into Durham too. But I’d run it with an iron fist and benevolent neglect. It’d be a madhouse.
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Durham would be great.
A Durham development forum should be called 5-over-1 Bazaar—wait add the word Bull somewhere in there.
Which city is building the most 5 over 1’s at the moment?
In or near the city center? Durham for sure.
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The new 453 foot 976-room 42-story Signia by Hilton Hotel in Atlanta. Built next to Atlanta’s main sports venue. It would not surprise me if Dundon will event seek to get a huge hotel built in his little entertainment district at PNC arena.
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For us though, they’ll have to rotate the hotel 90 degrees and make it squatty.
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Agreed. As a current Texas resident, it makes me weep a bit to see Buccee’s move forward in North Carolina. As a traveler, the food, clean restrooms, retail items, and overall convenience are unbeatable. However, I wish it didn’t have to be in such an unpleasant form (usually) with lots of concrete, bad circulation, and unrestrained consumerism.
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