They are building a big one in Miami also. It will be underwater in fifty years.
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So will I! 
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This is the opposite of show off things but if we feel like there are a lot of surface lots in downtown look at western part of downtown Little Rock and you will feel much better. Here is an example:
Iâm in Little Rock now and I hate this city!
And Little Rock can get a light rail but we canât. 
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We need to establish Wegmans as the central transit hub. Holy cowâŚ
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Holy Moly, what a waste of land. That said, if Raleigh had a grid like that of mostly surface lots, there would be lots of opportunity for growing the core.
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I had a much better time this last visit then I did 20 years ago. East of here, there is some decent density, but yeah, lots and lots of parking lots in LR.
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While we are on the topic of things not to copy from other cities, may I offer a horrible example from Orange, CA? This is the ONLY walkway from the sidewalk to a Wendyâs. You canât even walk through the grass to avoid this entrance because itâs all planted. In any case, the walking path is right in the middle of the drive-thru ordering kiosk. This is absolutely the worst pedestrian decision that could have been made.
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Love the use of rooftop space. I mean, how could you not?
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Dam son, that is the coolest!
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@ Francisco Is the Millenium Building tilting towards the Salesforce Transit Center, or away? I canât remember.
Iâll find out. Heading to SF in early December.
I was just at this SalesForce park a couple weeks back. Pretty cool public space above transitâŚ
The wavy metal screening serves to obscure the ramps for the buses in / out of the facility. Very interesting day lighting tricks employed to keep it from feeling like a âmore typicalâ subterranean transit hub.
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Itâs not San Francisco but hereâs Durhamâs new main library branch (with partial green roof) near downtown. Itâs been discussed here before but libraries are still busy hubs of community activity. DTR would benefit.
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Raleigh Central Library near Performance Art Center but make the roof a land bridge to Dix Park. Two birds, one stone.
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No Pictures yet, but Charlotte just announced a new 23 story, 365,000sqft, tower in South End, with the possibility of another tower on the same lot that would be 600,000 plus.
Somehow Charlottes South End has more construction then our main DTâŚ
Edit: This will be right next to the Loweâs tower⌠all along their light rail line.
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If you build it⌠they will come. SMDH
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Totally agreed. Height is nice and all, but you can get a tremendous amount done with as little as three stories once you get rid of excessive parking minimums and the idea that everybody needs to have a big lawn.
For example, that giant orange bar on the top line is those glorious, glorious Philadelphia rowhouses. Philadelphia is the fifth most dense big city in America (and Boston and San Francisco are much smaller in terms of area), even though it has one of the smallest percentages of multi-family housing on this chartâbecause it also has the smallest percentage of single family detached housing.
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