I’ve reached out to Oaks and Spokes, so we’ll see what the deal is. They are usually very up to date with all street changes due to them having to be ahead of the game with bike infrastructure lobbying.
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Which shade of weird green is your favorite @svp ?
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Oh this is too much to process. I think I need a Xanax and a stiff shot of bourbon before I can answer. 
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Don’t you mean Midori? 
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if the photo was panned a little different you would see me sitting eating ice cream. I had a whole conversation with my friend about that green Fisker and Seafoam Telsa.
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Darn, was hoping for an apartment / condo building given how busy that area is and how much shopping / eating / drinking is around it. Still a massive improvement over what’s there.
Seems to be some movement on this project. It passed its ASR review on 5/19 and applied for SPR last month. In the meantime one of the three vacant houses on the site, at 818 Wake Forest Rd, was boarded up and then demolished in the past few days. There have been crews on site a lot recently. The other two homes, at 822 and 816, are still standing for now.
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I love how each group of townhomes is different from the other. This is how you achieve some income diversity within one project, we need more of this… please and thank you in advance.
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Do we know the range of pricing here? I am not holding my breath that the income diversity reaches down into affordable territory for the middle class, rather I expect it to reach higher into a price range for higher income households.
No, I don’t. I was more so saying they probably won’t all be the same price and may range from 700k to 1.1 million or something. My guess is that the difference between units is at least 50-70k or so.
Does anyone know?
By nature of the product, I think that condo projects do a better job at being more diverse in size and affordability. I’ve bought 4 condos in my lifetime, and each development had units as small as 1 bedroom. In the case of my current condo building downtown, the largest unit in the building is about 3X the size of the smallest one. The difference approaches 4X at the Cotton Mill where I used to live. This size difference isn’t something that I’ve seen in townhouse projects for one reason or another, but I’d be interested to know if any exist in the Raleigh area.
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From the schematic plans posted above by @mike there is quite a bit of diversity in unit widths and sizes.
One building has unit widths varying from 17+ feet to 19+ feet. Another building has unit widths varying from 22+ feet to 24+ feet.
Additionally unit depths vary from building to building and are even staggered along frontages while held to the same building line in the rear.
So there will be floor area differences that will be reflected in pricing as well as interior layout differences.
Sizes calculated from overall building square footages and unit counts appear to range from 1600+ sf to over 3000 sf.
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No doubt that they are different sizes, and their possible range will be wide for townhouses, but they won’t be as wide of a size difference as they are in some condo buildings.
After several years of delay, it appears work at the Gables Motor lodge has begun. They’ve removed all of the trees and delivered enough heavy equipment to level the whole property, hopefully that’s not the case.
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The original plan was to renovate the main building, move the canopy to the north end and build a new 2-story building along the back west side.
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There’s a new sign up on the porch that calls it “The Gables.” Otherwise, it’s hard to tell what is actually happening beyond clearing part of the lot.
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Four months later and a lot has changed! In just the past week or so, a new building has emerged from the rear of the site, to the right of the main building. Pic from this morning:
From Google Street View, it looks like there was a smaller building here prior to about 2020.
In addition, the main building recently received a new roof and windows. Still a lot of work to be done on the site but it is really starting to take shape!
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Update on Dec 1 regarding the Blount/Person improvements. Looks like a ton of the proposed changes are on hold now.
The City is installing traffic signals at the intersections of Bragg and Blount Street and Person and Bragg Street. The design will also include improvements along Blount/Person between Hoke Street and Martin Luther King Blvd, incorporating new bus stops.
The original proposed improvements from MLK Boulevard to Wake Forest Road, including a proposed roundabout at Automotive Way and Wake Forest Road, are on hold pending funding and outcomes of a future NCDOT project along Capital Boulevard near Automotive Way.