Traffic from this is such a silly concern. The real traffic there is cut through traffic from anyone east of there going to Costco (this is me and everyone who lives around me).
I am really excited about this because it will give way more people the ability for their kids to walk to school at Conn or walk to Brookside.
Oh for sure - I have to use Brookside to get from my house to anywhere north or east, and I go to Wegmans and Greenville a lot. It starts to function as a road, not a street, as soon as it passes Glascock.
Aha! And we’ve found the source of the other mysterious funky house that’s been debated in this forum.
Super excited about these folks relocating in Raleigh. They’ve worked at some of the top firms in the world; should add some freshness to the design community.
Their style is not my cup of tea, but their commitment to making their buildings friendly to the sidewalk experience is incredibly refreshing. More porches and stoops, fewer garage doors and windowless walls please!
If they’re any good they won’t have a “style.”
Interested to see what they do after this first round of infill houses. Makes sense to reuse some of the same detailing/materials to bring some cash in and then diversify when they can.
Man those sides that face Brookside are brutal (and I say that living in a townhouse development that does the same thing). Hopefully they get some landscaping going on there.
I agree. I absolutely hate when these sorts of developments don’t have their end units successfully addressing the sidewalk.
Why can’t the street facing facade at least have that contrasting vertical element like we see on each unit facing the driveway? That’s just a horrendous facade.
Agree, would be so much nicer if the ends addressed the street. Makes me think people will compare these two developments and say they wished the ten townhomes looked like the 17 unit apartments next door!
They definitely have some construction fencing around the back and the front yards look torn up like someone’s been driving equipment on them. Real pre-demo vibes.
Apparently Denver banned these (what they call “slot” developments) a few years ago? I dug up this article, which has some good example images of potential alternatives that address the street.