Sites 2 & 3, Omni CC Hotel + Tower

[Marco]

It might be a square box and we may lose the Saunder’s money shot….but damn, it looks mighty fine.

[Justin6882]

Much better than the Marriott box, for sure. I wonder why they didn’t have the tower portion run along Fayetteville or Salisbury instead of Lenoir?

[JFG]

Anyone made a rendering of the money shot with this tower?

[Vatnos]

I hope once enough hotels are built, the CC Marriott can be refit/replaced. Ugliest building downtown that isn’t utility or government oriented.

[kjhburg]

Not sure about a Puttery as those are free standing the ones I have seen however this TopGolf branded SwingSuite just opened in the Ballantyne Hotel in south Charlotte. This is what it could be. They are almost all at hotels

https://swingsuite.topgolf.com/

https://resident.com/accommodations/2025/07/26/swing-into-style-the-ballantyne-hotel-debuts-north-carolinas-first-topgolf-swing-suite-this-fall

[GucciLittlePig]

@JFG

Anyone made a rendering of the money shot with this tower?

Get on it, Jake Van Gogh!

[keita]

From the thread on the 2029 World University Games: regardless of whether the sports simulation venue happens, the Convention Center expansion will be especially poppin’ four years from now.

@keita

For those of y’all who lost track, this is a biannual event for college athletes; it’s in the Rhine-Ruhr region of Germany this year. Imagine something like a college-level Olympics, where March Madness, the NCAA football national championships etc. are all mashed into one event - and we’re the hosts of that in 2029.

[This photo shows a poster of a map for the games’ venues in the Triangle:]

[…] you can see [among other things] that:

• The Raleigh Convention Center will be the home of the International Broadcast Center and main press offices when the games take place.

• Judo and table tennis matches will also be held in the Raleigh Convention Center.

[Westend_Boys]

I know DTR sorely needs hotel rooms & I may be in the minority, but the main tower is boring and uninspiring. It’s probably same generic glass box design built at most locations around the country.

[svp]

IMHO the design is cool as hell. Finally someone is doing something other than a straight up tower thingie. PLUS having the OMNI here is huge bonus for Raleigh.

[evan.j.bost]

[Nickster]

Oh the shadows it will cast on the Marriott!!!

[bennettzug]

Here’s my very rough attempt in Google Earth…

[John]

I think that Omni is sized too large, but overall two thumbs up for the good effort.

[bennettzug]

Maybe a bit more like this? I’ve pulled the heights directly from the plan and tried to match the perimeters as best I could – really its just hard to get a good camera angle in google earth

[John]

I think that you have it just a bit too wide. Maybe take off about 15% from the right side?

[bennettzug]

Overlaid the plan and traced it for this attempt – this is about the limit of how accurate I can be w/ google earth:

[raleighdeveloper]

Google Earth through programs like Sketchup lets you design with actual measurements and we have them from the public data, so everything you’re seeing is accurate.

[bennettzug]

this was just drawing polygons straight in google earth so i’m sure it’s not perfect

[GucciLittlePig]

@Jake take notes, sir!

[Speck]

Tick tok… they better get moving here