I’m sad Oak City Meatball is gone tho. 
I wish they’d come back now. Maybe they could take over the former DGX spot 
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I took this picture over the weekend. Probably not Oak City Meatball, but there’s definitely something happening in their old space. It might be nothing, but this looked a lot like a social media shoot.
I also wouldn’t be surprised if they came back now that DGX is gone. But, I’m doubtful it’s them and not someone else.
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I think it is now Daijobu, the ramen place from the City Market Sushi people?
That was the Darby space. Oak City Meatball still has paper over it.
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To reiterate a point I raised previously, this is all by design due to Dollar General’s dogsh*t policies and practices. They purposefully understaff stores in order to not have to pay employees, thus resulting in a complete mess of all their stores with rampant shoplifting - which they ultimately write off because their profits are so high - largely because most of their standalone stores are built in the middle of nowhere (aka a food desert) and surrounded by less-fortunate/low-income customers. They have no other choices.
With these urban format stores, you’d THINK they would’ve adopted some less unhinged policies and practices to ensure they’d all be safe and successful, but no. Corporate BS prevails.
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I’ve been saying this for years now, having more modern brick buildings downtown, tall and small with differing designs, would make Raleigh’s skyline become even more unique that it currently is. Brick baby Brick 
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Quorum was nice when it when up. visually interesting at the time
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The relatively new VCU Children’s Hospital in Richmond. Across the street from Richmond’s Capitol building.
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Thanks for sharing but I can’t say that I’d like that across from our Capitol.
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I’d take that in place of our capitol… Lol
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Maybe if your city was named Legoland?
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Huh. Like Amazon’s Just Walk Out, only… it still exists. Tech supplied by AiFi:
The whole VCU Medical Complex is kind of tucked behind the Virginia Capitol. It’s less looming than the picture implies. Downtown Richmond is hilly and the capitol is on the very top.
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This is great news for still recovering from Helene western NC. Pratt and Whitney is expanding its huge plant in Asheville adding 325 jobs ( given Buncombe County’s size vs Wake that is like well over 1000 jobs in Wake County) So it is HUGE for a community that needs jobs.
[Pratt & Whitney announces $285M Buncombe expansion, adding 325 jobs - Business North Carolina](Pratt & Whitney announces $285M Buncombe expansion, adding 325 jobs - Business North Carolina
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The gaming company applied for a rezoning of Cary Towne Center in 2021 after purchasing the property that same year, but according to the town of Cary’s rezoning website, the rezoning was withdrawn on Dec. 6 due to “inactivity.”
This is hardly a “show off”, rather a “piss me off” from another city.
A judge ruled in favor of The Clevelander on Ocean Drive that the city of Miami Beach must return Ocean Drive to two way traffic. This is after the Clevelander insists that their business is flailing because there aren’t MORE cars on Ocean Drive. This ruling, if upheld on appeal, means that Miami Beach loses its cycle track on Ocean Drive and that the entirety of the road has be make cars the priority.
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That sucks. You should move to Raleigh. We have tons of one way streets.
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To sum up:
- During covid, the City of Miami changed a two-lane two-way road to a one-lane one-way road plus a bike lane
- A hotel (The Clevelander) is claiming that the city doesn’t have the jurisdiction to reconfigure the road, the county does
- The county, and now the court, agree with the hotel
From the article:
[…] A Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge said that the city was violating Miami-Dade County’s authority to regulate the road.
Miami-Dade county officials told the city in a letter that conditions for the current configuration, including one lane of traffic and two bicycle lanes, have not been met. […]
Huge bummer to see pro-bike infrastructure get rolled back on what sounds like may be a technicality. Is there any chance that the county gets on board with the reconfiguration at this point? That seems like the only thing that can stop them from removing the bike lane.
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I’ll give you a hint. The county, which was solidly blue 20 years ago has swung hard in the other direction due to relentless fear mongering to naturalized Cuban and Venezuelan citizens.
Then again, now those same voters are finding out that THEIR non-citizen family and friends are in danger of being deported.
So???
Exactly… The zoning for it remains at what got approved in 2019:
"On December 12, 2019 the Cary Town Council voted to approve the rezoning for the Cary Towne Center Mall (19-REZ-11). The rezoning proposed to redevelop the 87-acre mall site into a mixed use project.
The rezoning was accompanied by a Preliminary Development Plan (PDP) that would have facilitated redevelopment of the existing site as a new mixed-use development called “Carolina Yards.” The PDP proposed to introduce a network of internal streets, forming a grid-like pattern for access and circulation. The proposed development program included up to a maximum of 1,200,000 SF of office, 360,000 SF of commercial, 1,800 multi-family/townhouse units, and 450 hotel rooms."
That’s a lot of room. Would be great place for the new children’s hospital or a MLB stadium
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