Apparently Charlotte is getting a second IKEA
Wtaf
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Hopefully never, and it’s not urban.
The tiny Pick Up IKEA locations are locations which rely on deliveries from larger IKEA warehouse stores nearby.
Sun City’s developer (Del Webb) has done smaller projects in the Triangle, eg Carolina Preserve at Amberly in Cary.
Enter the vortex jokes aside, if you’re going to do subdivisions, that’s among the most efficient geometrical layouts. Much better land use than the cul-de-sac and winding capillaries we tend to get around here.
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Traveled to Bucharest, Romania recently. Sharing some pictures from the trip. Old, new, and everything in between architecture.
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“Philadelphia | 6th & Spring garden development in full swing“ (source: https://x.com/tonyvaluez/status/1758913275322896583?s=46)
The Grey is similar to this but we could use a few developments like this in and surrounding the village district.
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I think you’re forgetting about 400H which was just completed.
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This is what needs to happen on Fayetteville St. every weekend. No necessarily 4 blocks worth, but some type of market.
I’ll take The Village over Sterling, VA. There’s at least some bike lanes there and more going in. Sterling has close housing, but no biking infrastructure. There’s also no pedestrian connectivity to the community college right across the pike. The Village has easy access to over 1,102 apartments (not including the other condos/houses in the area).
| Stories | Units | |
|---|---|---|
| 401 oberlin | 5 | 244 |
| 616 oberlin | 5 | 207 |
| Berkshire Village | 7 | 282 |
| Camden | 6 | 369 |
| 1102 |
If you include Oberlin Court which is a half mile north, then you get up to 1,472 apartment units only.
The condos on top are great though. Would love to see that type of design implemented in The Village or at least something on top of the stores. Maybe in future designs. I would also like to see The Village lose some of the surface lot parking to a garage instead. Sterling retains surface lots.
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I don’t mind a cul-de-sac with passthroughs for pedestrians/bikes. Would result in less through traffic.
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An interesting chart, and lol at “tiny city” in the tweet
https://twitter.com/nolightupstairs/status/1759844613953642522
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My question is “why isn’t Raleigh on this chart?”
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Your wish is my command.
Would be interesting to see how much of it was downtown or at least in the walkshed (or even at least in places with high walk/bike-scores) vs everywhere else.
For fun, here is the same data by MSA (metropolitan statistical area).
NYC-Newark-Jersey City isn’t doing quite so poorly by this view. However, it doesn’t negate the original point in that they are permitting only ~2.5x the housing as Raleigh-Cary, despite being more than 10 times the size by population. Similarly, they are permitting ~10x the housing that Durham-CH is, while being more than 30 times the size.
By MSA, and adjusted for population, Raleigh is permitting housing at closer to Austin-Round Rock (Raleigh-Cary MSA population is ~1.5M, Austin-RR is ~2.4M).
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So we’ve actually inspired a parking deck boom. This beauty is coming just down the road from the one under construction. Gonna have ground floor retail though.
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Cary gov listens to her citizens…
Number 1 complaint of DT Cary is…
Drumroll please
“It’s gotten so hard to park there, I hate it”
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Lol I think that’s #2. #1 is how downtown Cary has lost all its charm. Despite it being dead previously and now being very active.
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I enjoy following Cary Downtown on Facebook. Today someone complained about not having coffee at the dog park… despite there being two coffee shops less than 2 blocks away and a park cafe on the other side of the park.
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Lol I am on that group too, despite living in Raleigh, since I am pretty close and enthusiastic about the area. I saw that too and it just cracked me up. It takes all of my willpower not to troll the group, but I want to be allowed to stay for the update tidbits.
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I am gonna join that group now. Sounds like just the type of entertainment I crave.
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