Welcome to Boston lol, definitely check out Raleigh St. near Kenmore station along the green line
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Picture from Polignano a Mare, Italy
One way to explain urbanism to Americans is to describe a picturesque Mediterranean town with no buildings higher than 40 feet except church steeples. Imagine taking the town of Wendell and condensing it into 50 acres surrounded by farmland. To get there We have an impossible amount of reforms to be made to transportation planning, but more importantly there needs to be flexibility in zoning and building codes to allow existing neighborhoods to slowly evolve into thicker neighborhoods
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I think that our biggest hurdle is getting Americans to give up their personal space. The American dream is built around the single family house with the fenced in yard. Our culture is our biggest barrier.
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This is true at the 30k ft view, but there are thousands if not millions of Americans who would prefer to live or retire in a truly walkable community surrounded by nature, and the market is falling them
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I donât disagree, but the retirement market is niche, and much of that is finding its way to compact and isolated college towns.
The market is here is more youth/early in career oriented. We need to strike while the iron is hot and build these walkable neighborhoods now.
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Durham is going to push through with that $300 million convention center project if the bond is approved.
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Who are those people that say we shouldnât compete with Durham because we donât have the same entertainment and tourism options again? Because Durham didnât get the memo.
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Will it affect their street grid?
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I donât know where they want to put it but I assume it could be on the old police station site. Thatâs a good spot for a convention center + hotel of the size theyâre gunning for.
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If Raleigh does what Raleigh usually does, it will abandon its plans now and yield the convention business to Durham.
While the above is a bit hyperbole on my part, I think that we should return the favor and expand our performing arts center to be larger and better equipped than theirs.
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Iâm pretty sure that is planned to be redeveloped into a dense mixed-use project. Covid threw a big wrinkle into the original proposal though and the developer kind of backed out.
The NIMBYs (both right-NIMBYs shouting about âcharacterâ and left-NIMBYs trying to ânegotiateâ their own little free socialist workersâ paradise by holding the project hostage) NIMBYâd it into that. Oh, and the market for lab space collapsed.
Pretty sure I excerpted from the same article above:
Itâs a California developer, who name-drops a bunch of California names.
Absolutely nobody priced out of LA will want a $700 PSF supertall condo in OKC (because construction costs are still $500+ PSF), not when they can have a house in OKC for $150 PSF. Having lived near the Chicago Spire when that was proposed, then supersized, then crashed and burned, I can tell you that Iâve seen this movie before, and itâs embarrassing for everyone involved.
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The progress on the last few floors of Novus has slowed and the big crane is gone. Kinda weird progression but itâs inching there.
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Just so that we can understand that small communities can do great things, consider that the entire country of Iceland has fewer people than just the city of Raleigh.
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The tourism industry makes millions more than our area though⌠I think 
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Letâs drill deep bore holes in JoCo until we spring a volcano attraction, I say.
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Wasnât really sure where else to post this, but CityNerd was talking it up about Winston-Salem. Thereâs a video coming out about Durham in a couple of weeks as well.
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And now my hotel in Oslo has seafoam green. They said they modeled it after the Platform in Raleigh
Nice room and view though. Has Raleigh thought about getting a water feature?
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CityNerd
You can tell he had no expectations going in. W-S really flies under the radar. It is a beautiful overlooked city. I think he got a pretty accurate read on the Triad cities. He gushed a lot since it would be punching down.
On the edge of my seat for the Durham video. Curious if he had any time to swing by Raleigh, but probably not.
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I was at the Durham event and talked with him for a minute â he said he didnât have time, but he plans to come back at some point and do a separate video on it.
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