Drove by the Courtland cottages project this morning… things are happening! One building down, one to go. They had been stripping out appliances recently for what seemed like months. Nice to see some real action.
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On the one hand, you know what goes in here won’t be nearly as affordable at the current apartments. On the other hand, those apartments are a car-oriented snooze.
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While I was on that walk, the Mordecai/Courtland loop is full of construction. A couple of noteworthy ones:
Love this hidden addition to a pretty old bungalow:
Raleigh Architecture Group are delivering another project that looks like a weird rock formation or baby Star Destroyer. Extremely not my cup of tea for residential, but I bet I’d love an office project by them.
Finally, this is one weird project. It’s like someone plopped one of those phone equipment buildings with no windows in a gully. Maybe the idea is it’ll have a bridge so you enter on the second floor?
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We could seriously use a thread dedicated to wtf design decisions. Not the “why do all the towers in DTR have to look the same” wtf things, but like that gully house. I’ve got a great one in South Park I’ll have to photograph tomorrow to share. There are some really questionable new houses sprinkled around the area. Mind you, I think there’s a need for some grotesquerie now and then to remind of us how much worse off things could be, but we can be realistic about when design is objectively bad.
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Did they do a stormwater evaluation on that last lot?
Or maybe we just call it the grumpy cat thread? haha
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A peek at the past of the neighborhood - the is the area that wraps around Oakwood Dog Park
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It would really surprise some people in the close in neighborhoods to see that land was cleared of all the trees for their house just as bad as some of the new houses.
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And the fact that it surprises people illustrates that most humans simply cannot envision a future from planning and thus, often fear change because they cannot wrap their mind around what will become in time
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I grew up in this neighborhood. My parent’s first house was on Penn Road (not yet built in this pic). Post war cookie cutter homes but my folks were young able to afford it. Our house is gone and a nice big home is being built there. Happy to see the old house gone and see a better home in it’s place. My parent’s moved to the burbs and built a bigger house as our family was quickly outgrowing the old house. I’ve kept up with all the old homes we lived in (2 are now gone) but we always welcomed growth and change and looked at it as making Raleigh a better place to live.
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Rezoning of this 405 Clover Lane lot to R-6/R-5 deferred to committee, scheduled for 10/27
https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/the-raleigh-wire-service/748/2040?u=oakcityyimby
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Here’s another business spilling into the shoulder spaces…
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405 Clover Lane rezoning scheduled for the Planning Commission on 11/8
https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/the-raleigh-wire-service/748/2079?u=oakcityyimby
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Anyone know what’s going on with the old Gable’s Motor Lodge on Wake Forest? Walked by this morning and saw it was all boarded up.
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Raleigh Mag stated concept still ‘under way’, hospitality agreement in place with same folks that run Durham hotel, Mayton, Willard establishments. Q1 2023 estimate for work to begin…
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Oh nice, this is right by me. New townhouse infill at 1205 Brookside a block north of Brookside Bodega/Optimist - replacing two tiny midcentury prefab-style houses with 12 townhouses.
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They are all 3 beds. Anyone want to guess the prices? Since there’s no living area on the ground floor, I’ll go 700K to start. These don’t seem like Million dollar units.
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Agreed, but I’ve never been a fan of units that don’t face a street and only have a driveway that’s perpendicular to it. They at least could have had the two end units’ doors facing Brookside by flipping/mirror imaging the end plan and moving the front door around the corner.
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