View from hotel with city hall on the right:
600’ Amazon building:
Second 600’ Amazon building under construction (orange paneled building):
Downtown park:
Skyline, signage, & sidewalk:
I really like the black building here:
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It look like there are clean and orderly sidewalks that few experience. Am I reading this correctly?
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It looks like a sad and soulless corporate city with no liveliness. I can’t explain it but it also looks a city that would have a mandatory 8pm curfew for its citizens.
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The tall buildings look way better than Raleigh’s. Sorry if that hurts.
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Really? I dont think they are bad, just banal like almost every new building these days. They have more new ones, new bland glass ones. I don’t see one I like better than the Mauve, tho the black one is pretty neat. I like Raleigh’s better.
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oddly, i farted around up there living out of a van in Seattle, Bainbridge isle and Bellevue…Bellevue seemed kind to me, despite the now dated towers…pleasant experience 22 years ago.
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It’s definitely a lifeless corporate city with no character, that’s the worst part and the result of the land use decision they’ve made. Even though the buildings are impressive. Service industry folks I met there all lived an hour away. My company busses most folks over from Seattle. I didn’t meet anyone there who actually had a connection to Bellevue. They have some apartments downtown but not enough and again pretty much unreasonable/unaffordable even to relatively high earners.
So it’s dead after business hours unless you’re going to the mall. During business hours, there are lots of people walking and trying to use the sidewalks. It’s what they’re used to in Seattle, Bellevue doesn’t have bike infrastructure, and scooters are banned. So the sidewalks are actually activated, it’s just unpleasant. Far too much waiting at intersections and too dangerous (with wide roads, hills, & right turns on red allowed) to cross in between. So you wait and get frustrated. My pics were taken after work and you see how it’s just a ghost town. It looks pretty but Bellevue’s just not it folks.
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- Hive House, a new boutique hotel in Cary, opens this week.
- CMC Hotels owns Hive House and several other properties in Cary.
- The extended-stay hotel features 45 suites with full kitchens.
“We don’t have a lot of boutique hotels in Cary,”
https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2025/07/15/cary-boutique-hotel-hive-house-opens-crossroads.html
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I saw something about that too. It’s too bad it’s not in a cooler location as a boutique hotel, though I guess it is close to the clusterfuck that is Crossroads. Some people might like that.
Doesn’t strike me as a scenic, quirky, fun location.
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I think this sign means to watch out for bicycles without front wheels. I thought Portland was known for their bike culture but apparently people haven’t gotten the hang of it yet.
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That looks like one of those newfangled pogobikes (aka pogocycle).
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Hilarious sign, 10/10
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I think it was this guy for yesterdays TDF stage.
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That is of course until you look closely at the image and see that the handlebars are square to the viewer and the you see that the front wheels are square to the handlebars. The image would be much better if both the handlebars and front wheel were a bit oblique.
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I loved Portland when I visited last year, even though it was 100 degrees every day and the eastern part of the state was on fire and covering the city with smoky haze.
Well the weather is amazing. Clear blue skies, 80 degrees, and no humidity. They also have a fancy two story walkway like Raleigh. And Sylvan Esso.
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from the little town that grew to 188,000 people next door in Raleigh. With multiple new apartment complexes in downtown Cary, the new park, 2 new office buildings and good amount of retail already we have a bona fide downtown now over in Cary. From the other day.
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These buildings don’t look familiar at all..
Are you sure you arent at the hyaltt house at seaboard st?
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