You and the penguin look a little too comfortable in Charlotte. Which does give me some cause to feel a bit uneasy.
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anytime a group or just a few people want to come down to the Queen City I will gladly give you a walking, riding tour of our fair city.
The great thing about North Carolina is that we have so many great cities and all are doing good these days. From Asheville to Wilmington to the Triad cities to Raleigh Durham to the the QC.
Remember I led a tour of about 40 people of downtown Raleigh from Charlotte and they loved it.
and the last building @GucciLittlePig took a photo of with the parking garage screened was 110 East a 23 story office tower built on spec and now it is 95% leased to multiple new to market tenants and others. It is in the heart of Southend. And donât worry I will be coming up to Raleigh soon in a month.
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Well definitely letâs see if we can get some people to meet up while youâre here.
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Man, how ugly is that new WELLS FARGO signage on the former Duke building? Between that and the Truist bs on the Hearst Tower, Charlotteâs signage is really enshittifying the skyline.
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We were commenting on that Wells Fargo signage too. Itâs pretty bad 
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I moved my business bank account from Truist over that signage. Best looking tower in North Carolina and they ruined the crown. Fickle on my part? Yes. Would I do it again? Absolutley.
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The Hearst Tower really is something special. The signage is legitimately offensive on it lol
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we hate it too but they own the building and occupy 100% of it so not much we can do about it. I wish it was the old Wachovia blue it would look better.
Our skyline has gone through phases where lots of buildings had rooftop signage in 1960s and 1970s then in the 1980s and 1990s not as much as new towers. Now we are back with corporate signage on everything. Plus the way we light up our skyline and coordinate it makes us the Vegas of Banking! We can turn all our buildings green or blue or red white and blue.
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Downtown Raleigh will NEVER see an announcement like this as long as that bus station remains. The opposite is happening.
Alright. The doom and gloom is pretty obnoxious I have to say.
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Show me 1 major job announcement for downtown Raleigh in the last 15 yearsâŚ.just 1.
now compare that to downtown charlotte USA
Blaming everything on a bus station is psychotic. This city has much bigger issues hindering these sorts of announcements. Everything canât be because âbus stationsâ and âHBCUsâ as you seem to point out to the point of exhaustion.
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I promise that Capital Group does not take into account our bus station when deciding where to put an expansion. Downtown Raleighâs lack of ability to gain large companies has much more to do with our splintered workforce throughout the 2 metros, as well as other factors (Charlotte already being the largest banking hub outside of NYC helps a lot too.)
I have a lot of thoughts about how local governments use incentives for companies to move to their cities. Raleigh does well for itself without any major corporate hqs downtown, and still continues to grow.
Also, Uptown Charlotte is a pretty well known deadzone outside of business hours. Sure, they have tall buildings, but that does not do much for pedestrian activation in the city center.
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Nice deflection attempt.
You want to try again & actually answer the question as to why downtown Raleigh has seen ZERO job announcements in 15 years??
Yet North Hills has blown up during that same time?
How about Pendo??? 
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Quick search comes up with the following companies that have opened offices in downtown in the past five years: Pendo, Envestnet, Arch Capital Group, Relay, Cumming Group, Gensler, Insight Global, BuildOps, Lucid Software, RapidScale, McAdams, and Smith Anderson. I am sure there are more, but I trust you know how to do your own research.
Facts donât care about opinion. To say âdowntown Raleigh has seen ZERO job announcements in 15 years,â is simply a lie.
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Employment growth stalled after covid and has slowly crawled back to its original peak.
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Red Hat announced their move downtown in 2011. Thatâs within your 15 year window 
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Charlotteâs bus station is literally in the middle of uptown. Itâs arguably more divisive than Raleighâs bus station.
The bigger reason Raleigh doesnât land many huge financial job announcements like that is because its economy isnât really centered around finance. Similar reason why Charlotte doesnât get as many research/tech jobs as Raleigh.
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