“When his proposal came before the city’s Board of Adjustment on March 11, only one person spoke against it. She owns a nearby 682-square-foot condo, which she purchased for $117,000 in 2011, but she doesn’t live there. Instead, she rents it out, and she was worried that her tenant might be bothered by the noise. But she wasn’t just any landlord. She was Stef Mendell, a Raleigh City Council member. This wasn’t in her district—she lives in and represents District E, in North Raleigh—but she still wanted to make her views known.”
There is another tenant for the other half of the Marsh Woodwinds spot, a kava bar. No idea as to an open date for the kava bar, and the other business in the first half is still moving towards a late-summer open. Permits will probably start to surface soon, if anyone continues to be intrigued and wants to do some nosing around.
Via the News&Observer, Bond Bros is opening a brewpub in the Standards Foods space in Person Street Plaza.
Still waiting on the Person/Blount resurface/restripe, looks like some sort of hold-up regarding NCDOT approval of the contracting bid.
I wish there was something to share about the gym property/parking lot, but alas.
N&O posted an article about it as well, saying construction will begin this Month.
“The $3.26 million project entails repaving Wake Forest Road and Person and Blount streets north of Edenton Street; south of Edenton to Hoke Street, the lane markings will be redrawn without replacing the pavement, said Beth Quinn, the project manager for the city.”
-I hope they actually cover the street with thin layer of asphalt instead of stripping the painted lanes and just leaving the street uneven, like the did with Wilmington st. https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article232441666.html
The repaving and restriping are part one of a multiyear effort to overhaul Blount and Person streets that will likely include turning them into two-way streets. Quinn said the city decided to put off any decisions about converting the streets to two-way until the route of the planned bus rapid transit line on the east side of town is settled.
They seem to keep wavering on this. I wonder if opening up these streets to two-way traffic will make them feel less like speedways in the sections where folks can go more than one block without a stoplight.
I hope they do convert Person and Blount to two-way traffic. I think it would make that corridor a lot more walkable and bike-able. At the same time, I know that would put pressure on the more residential Bloodworth and East Streets. Maybe putting speed humps on those streets would ease the concerns from families in the neighborhoods? Or if not speed humps, something to deter people from using them as shortcuts during rush hours.
One potential kink is that part of the proposed BRT route uses sections of Blount Street - wonder how that would affect any 2 way conversion plans (maybe just Person gets converted?)
