Great project!! 
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Miami has roads like that after every hurricane. LOL
City of Austin āStrong Mayorā Prop F failed overwhelming.
Reshaping the government of the City of Raleigh might prove to be a very difficult task including moving to a full-time government.
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The idea of a riverwalk has come up before ā but alas NCās wetlands regulations make it difficult to do any āurbanā waterfronts (with hard edges up against the water) on existing streams around Raleigh.
One alternative is to do a riverwalk along a nonexisting stream. Thatās pretty much the approach that Frederick, MD took with its Carroll Creek downtown riverwalk, built after devastating floods in the 1970s. (Sound like a certain creekside Valley Mall you might know?) Most of the volume now goes through a belowground storage/culvert system, leaving more room aboveground for a largely decorative channel. Photo tour:
Carroll Creek Linear Park | Frederick Business, MD (history, with video)
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I believe they are planning a larger, enhanced creekside park in āMidtownā (Wake Forest Rd x Six Forks area) to double as overflow when flooding happens, as it always does in that area. But to extend that to Crabtree would certainly make sense!
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Thinking about the theorized Apple / Google boom to building for our region and looking to Austinās realities as a comp, hereās a nugget for those tower loversā¦
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This seems to be on trend these days. Structural engineers are living life!
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So their suburban Apple campus spurred downtown condo towers? Interestingā¦ I think the closest to reality condo tower we have in the works is āThe Nashā or does āSalisbury Squareā have condos? I wonder if either of those start to get some traction or if the Smoky Hollow Phase 3 will leap-frog those?
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I was referring to the similarities to our scenario around inbound folx moving into the area from other (larger, more expensive locales) as outlined by this quote below from the article -
There will be similarities with the outlying campuses as well, as you point out.
It seems certain to me that more people will come and it will be interesting to see how developments take shape. Iām in the camp hoping for Nexus / the Nash development to get elevated but weāll seeā¦
āAustin is currently experiencing a real estate boom, with demand for housing rising as companies such as Google, Apple and Tesla expand in the city and people relocate from California for jobs.ā
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Itās not hard to get inside the head of someone who moves from CA or NY, and imagining them saying to themselves āIf Iām going to leave CA/NY, I better be able to have something to show for itā. For many (as weāve learned in Raleigh) is a big house on a big piece of land, but for others its owning in a luxury tower: both of which are often unattainable for even well heeled employees of these companies.
The Triangle has the whole big house thing down pat & can compete with the best of them. What the Triangle lacks is that luxury high rise product to compete with the big boys. The closest thing weāve got is PNC, and itās not at the same level as whatās being delivered in markets like Austin.
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Agreed and thatās the interesting chicken / egg thing weāre going through at this moment - the blending elements of what weāve been and the urbanity on the cusp.
Seriously, you would think the recent announcements would make the condo developers (and their lenders) bullish enough to get going with these downtown projectsā¦
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If they sit on their hands long enough, Durham is going to steal that from Raleigh.
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Yeah the cityās Midtown St. Albans plan
This is a pretty nice idea for the city to consider to mitigate storm water, thanks for sharing!
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I donāt think the Nexus block development (including The Nash) is still an active project. I donāt have proof of that but heard rumblings that itās indefinitely on hold. Iād love to be wrong.
And if the mention of SmoHo 3 was in context of condos, I donāt think thereās a condo component to that tower/development. Probably apartments, but condos arenāt Kaneās MO.
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Ah. Both of those make sense. So really weāve got zero condo towers realistically in the works - at least announced.
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Correct. The Nash was going to be the next one. For DTR proper, Iām not aware of anything outside of townhomes/apartments/SFH.