Show Off Things From Other Cities

[HardeesBiscuit]

@TedF

Dram & Draught will be coming to Fenton

this is the spot at Fenton

[R-Dub]

It’s probably important that you understand what a REIT is and their goals.

[pBeez]

In my personal case, its not RETIs that are the issue. But for Raleigh, your point is well taken.

[markymark]

Local cocktail bar Dram & Draught will open a new location at Cary’s Fenton development in spring 2022 . The bar will sit in a freestanding, majority-glass building with more than 2,000 sqft , including a rooftop bar and outdoor patio.

[Street_Grid]

Update on Charlotte downtown transit station. They are 60% done on infrastructure. Master plan will be unveiled this summer. It is a long way off, but I’m really looking forward to this project bc I think it will be really beneficial to Raleigh Union Station for Charlotte to have a nice well-located train station. I’ll be much more likely to use the train for business trips to Charlotte when I will arrive downtown.

https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2021/02/19/gateway-station-update-master-design-plan.html?cx_testId=40&cx_testVariant=cx_23&cx_artPos=1#cxrecs_s

[paytonc]

Re: Highwoods, the amount of upfront cash needed to build an office tower (especially one without any signed leases) is way, way more than the amount of cash needed to build stick apartments or convenience retail.

Unusually, their namesake Midtown Raleigh office park is one of just two big spotches of Office Park zoning in Raleigh; almost all other offices are zoned Office Mixed Use, which allows residential and retail by-right. (The other OP zone is the Raleigh Corporate Center at 54 & 40 – also, probably not coincidentally, a Highwoods property.)

Re: courthouses, apparently GSA is due to release a new priority list for new federal courthouses soon (it’s a five-year plan, last done in 2016). But GSA Region 4 got the majority of new courthouses in this cycle, including Nashville, Charlotte, Greenville, Savannah, and Anniston, with Chattanooga on the up-next list. Congress (which appropriates for GSA) might not look favorably upon having more new courthouses within the same area. But that said, GSA has done a fantastic job with new architecture lately.

Charlotte’s new federal courthouse is the opposite story from Austin: Mecklenburg county gave their old courthouse to the feds, who are renovating it.

[pBeez]

Anniston’s courthouse is well on the way, it seems like it took forever to get it going. The city gave up its town hall, Feds are giving the town the turn of the century courthouse for a new town hall. They took up the whole block. If I every get down there I will get a photo. But its nearly 12 miles away, and I usually don’t go south of my town’s square, lol.

[TedF]

Downtown Cary. 5 Story Apartment Building atop ground floor retail

https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2021/03/02/northview-partners-apartments-retail-project-cary.html?ana=TRUEANTHEMFB_RA&csrc=6398&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A%20Trending%20Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1BvEZevTELtgfnIW9vUYXt6yfO8Ablnd22PBhP70uw_B8qcmnEBr6rdEI

[Francisco]

Look like Seaboard Station mix used project going up now.

[John]

So, Cary is getting in on the stick-built over podium game now?

[TedF]

Yep. They did it for the two condo buildings right down the street from this project. Most of their apartment buildings they have built the last few years have been 5 stories.

[John]

Cary’s path to 200,000 right there.

[dtraleigh]

Bigger question. Is this thread really useful when we share what’s going on in our suburbs? I feel a Show Off Things from around the Triangle thread is needed.

[dtraleigh]

Or maybe no one has anything to share because no one is traveling?

[keita]

Making a new thread for that is probably a good idea. Honestly, I think things in Cary and Durham come up frequently enough that it clutters up this thread (and also the RTP/malls one) from its intended purpose -so it’d make it easier to keep up with the right conversations.

[GucciLittlePig]

Yeah I feel like a North Hills thread, a Cary/Durham thread, etc would all be useful. But as you’ve pointed out in the past, we don’t need a dozen threads about not downtown probably. So maybe a Triangle thread would be able to encompass that.

Also, I’ll try to travel more so I don’t have to post pictures of exotic Cary.

[dtraleigh]

Maybe the rule will have to be, YOU have to show it off, like you actually went there and saw it rather than, let me share an article about some thing that’s planned. In my book, that’s off topic.

[sthomper]

it may have been 2006 or so when I took this in charlotte. i thought it was art meant to show the rail plan.

[Bryan]

This is from when I went to Dublin, Ireland a couple years ago! Not a tall city buts lots a street action; and, talk about cranes!

[Bryan]

*Cathedral is in Galway not Dublin