Ah yes, the Restoration on King Hotel with The Watch rooftop is another fantastic example. I remember the BAR meeting for that project!
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Nailed it!
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This is more about the present than the future, but we made our annual pilgrimage to the Halloween House in Oakwood.
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I dearly love that house… and I have also nearly run over a pedestrian walking backwards without looking into Oakwood Blvd so they can take a picture a few times. People really shut their brains off around that place.
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I suppose that drivers also know that there’s peak pedestrian activity around this house every year and should take extra caution!
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It’s so you don’t attract the zombies…
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The site plan notes the intent to plant several Kentucky Coffeetrees around the site. One of the best and most underutilized native(ish) tree species. If I wore hats, I’d doff mine to the site planners.
Compare to Passage Home’s new building spotted for South Park, with a bunch of List C invasives on it…
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This is going to be contentious, development of 307, 311 and 325 E. Edenton St., three lots behind Gringo between Person St and Bloodworth. 311 and 325 are petition’s to demolish existing historic structures and 307 is a parking lot. End goal appears to be townhouses by Copper Builders.
The initial hearings are on December 13th:
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I think this came up in the New Bern thread before… the parking lot getting built on is an obvious win, but I’m honestly not sure about tearing down the old houses. They’re nice.
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That is food served on a golden platter for Livable Raleigh right there.
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The land for those two lots is valued at about ten times the value of the buildings, and neither has been owned by “not-a-developer” for about 30 years. Put me down for new townhouses.
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yeah it’s a tough one but I’m always more excited to preserve historic towers/mixed-use buildings within the immediate downtown area, whereas a couple old/historic houses that it sounds like haven’t even been used as housing can certainly be sacrificed for guaranteed more-housing than what is currently there. Put me down for new townhouses, too.
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It’s a race between new apartments and townhomes. Which developers will win the day.
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Hopefully the ones that provider ownership opportunities
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