From a youtube vid from Ken Heron, a popular drone operator. Cool view of the curved tracks with a commuter train going into downtown. Who doesn’t love those elevated tracks.
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Ha! Don’t worry they built a brand new urbanesque White Castle right on High Street. It’s very cool. Columbus has a massive downtown area. One nice thing about Raleigh is that it does not take as much redevelopment to see big results due to a smaller more compact footprint.
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In Nashville today. I have never seen so many construction cranes outside of China. Unbelievable.
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I was recently in Chicago for a week. I was very frustrated by how pathetic their signage was for pedestrians. In all cases, the signs are hard to find as a pedestrian, but it’s really bad if you are walking the sidewalk in the opposite direction of one-way traffic. Cross streets are only marked to be viewed by cars, and the sign is way high on the bar that’s holding the traffic signal. Come on Chicago, get some pedestrian friendly road signage!
In the rare case that I found pedestrian height signage, the cross street signs weren’t stacked at a 90 degree angle to each other, rather were put at the same elevation. This assured that they were hard to read when viewing the overall sign from a single angle view. Ugh!!!
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We were there 2 weekends ago and I lost count. Tried to take a picture but couldn’t get them all in it. Crazy.
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I was recently in Minneapolis and, for a city that has snow on the ground for the majority of the year, I was super impressed with their bicycle infrastructure.
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Best in the nation from what I’ve seen including Portland and Seattle.
But, downtown traditional retail continues to struggle.
Well, to be fair, Macy’s is struggling everywhere, and Seattle is the home of Amazon.
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True. My memory of that location was when visiting in the waning days of it being The Bon Marche with Nordstrom next door. Amazon was only selling books at that time.
Things change. Most mid-size metros lost their downtown department stores quite some time ago. Kansas City, Columbus, Saint Louis, and Atlanta tried to buck the trend, but failed. Just to name a few in my own experience. Belk in downtown Raleigh closed soon after I moved here in 1992.
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Can you believe they rebranded it the Bon Macy’s for a brief period? lol
Amazon actually leases most of the floors of the Macy’s Seattle building already.
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Found a picture I tried to take of Nashville construction cranes. Only 9 in this picture which captures about half. Maybe with some of these projects in Raleigh getting started several will sprout soon.
Nashville is crushing it. Our metro is growing at a comparable rate, but a higher percent of their new construction is downtown.
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Let’s compare Dreamville Festival setup to two major music festivals: ACL and Coachella.
Austin City Limits
Coachella
Dreamville
I think Dreamville has great potential to be our third major yearly music festival (Hopscotch and Bluegrass Festival being the other two but there’s guarantee that the Bluegrass Festival will stay in Raleigh). I’m sure it will eventually expand to other genres of music too.
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Over 40,000 people came from all over the US for Dreamville. I think it absolutely has potential to be even bigger than Hopscotch. I’m hoping they expand it to 2 days next year, even if they still stick to just 2 stages. But I could see another smaller stage over to the bottom right of the map. I also love that hand drawn map!
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My gosh, have all of us been to Nashville in the last 6 months? lol.
I am headed back in Dec for RE Keen’s Christmas show, but then I am only about 4 hour drive. The rest of y’all have a serious addiction, lol.
I guess I need to visit next! Will post pictures when I do, as well 
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