Nah but… all jokes aside WHAT THE F*** is the HOLDUP with projects in Raleigh? For one of the fastest growing cities in the entire country, we sure do move at a glacial pace when it comes to actual important infrastructure improvements. It’s maddening.
The only time that anything happens quickly is when there’s a natural or manmade disaster, then the speed machine gets to work. Let’s see how fast that port is restored to operation in Baltimore, and how relatively quickly that bridge gets replaced.
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The bridge took 5 years to build originally IIRC.
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And my understanding is that the engineers and port/shipping folks wanted a tunnel. But the bridge was quicker and cheaper, so that was the option the government went with. It will be interesting to see how quickly they rebuild it. Florida reconstructed several bridges very quickly after recent hurricanes. None, however, were as tall or complicated as the Key Bridge.
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IIRC, the estimates for rebuild was 18 months at the earliest, but up to 2 years at longest… 
Still faster than 615Peace.
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10% of budget for parks and downtown landscaping maintenance. We can have nice things.
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Remember when investing a million dollars in infrastructure meant something? What will that even get someone these days? In Raleigh, it probably just pays for the “study” to determine if it’s even possible.
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It would pay for the community listening sessions to determine if we should do a study.
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Durm update. The area around the farmer’s market and old ballpark is such an appealling space. They really nailed the feel. Really hungry for that YMCA tower to start but I can’t complain about the committment to more housing.
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We hauled the Bricks for the Geer House Apartments (The blue and white boxes). You’re not kidding about the density, it’s tighter than a Tick’s ass down there. It took me several visits just to figure out the logistics of navigating a tractor trailer into the site. But I do feel like this area is losing some of the character before all the apartments. You could see down the hill from Motorco to Kings, but now it’s all apartments.
I just looked up the rental prices, my god. I genuinely feel bad for new renters into the market, these prices are the new normal and make saving money toward homeownership even harder.
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I’m in Hot Springs, Arkansas to see the eclipse right now, and have been pleasantly surprised by how pleasant the town is. It might be a total tourist trap, but the walking environment and street activation is very nice.
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From our friends in Durham (apparently the NC Mutual Life building is getting painted).
New brewery called Atomic Clock has opened in a nicely restored old brick building with original floors, ceilings, and windows.
And there’s a new bar with a double decker bus and a cool patio by the Canopener Bridge.
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Ok, I love the Hami engine sticker, lol.
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Downtown Durham is definitely more aesthetically pleasing than downtown Raleigh, sorry folks. The truth hurts sometimes 
They’ve kept just enough pleasant looking historic buildings… Raleigh on the other hand, kept relatively mediocre historic buildings and tore down pleasant looking buildings.
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I truly do hate to agree with you on this one but you are, indeed, correct. Walking down Main St feels like being in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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Was that ever really in question?
Durham easily has one of the best downtowns in NC. I’d argue it is ahead of all the other large cities in that regard. Only Asheville and Wilmington are close imo (aside from smaller cities like New Bern and Salisbury).
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Alright, lets not go crazy.
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