374 units, with a total of 498 beds on 0.95 acre. And they’re also providing a new bus drop off lot for Marbles!
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This is going to be a pentagonal building! Looking deeper at the ASR renderings, this will be really unique for downtown Raleigh. Essentially a trapezoid but with a other small side added, the angles on this look pretty cool.
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Unobstructed views of downtown… at 30 floors near Marbles… lol yeah you ARE the view.
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In a cookie cutter starter home community in the burbs, that might equate to 5 houses and 15 beds if that .95 acre didn’t also have to include a cul de sac among them.
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These would be great for condo ownership properties instead of rental apartments.
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Yeah, I don’t understand at all why there aren’t more ownership opportunities in all of these proposed high rises.
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Just to temper everyone’s expectations, bronze vision glass doesn’t necessarily mean a literal bronze color.
This is bronze vision glass. It’s just a dark tint with a warm hue, and at least in my office, when we’re talking about bronze glass, that’s what we’re referring to.
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Hmmm probably because then they couldn’t charge people $4,000 a month for the same exact apartment to infinity and beyond 
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When I went out to Denver in May, my friend told me that there was a rule in Denver that all new residential had to be rental for X number of years before it could be changed over to condo. And the tenants at the point of the switch got first dibs on buying their space before it was all sold on the open market. He knew someone living in one of the buildings with the change happening in the next year or two and said they were going to buy their apartment when it was sold as a condo.
Not sure how much truth there is to this, or if it would work here, but just throwing it out there.
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And just after I pointed out bronze glass usually refers to a warm/dark tinted glass, renderings confirm they’re going with a real reflective bronze!
EDIT: some interior renderings are at the link look sick if you can get past the paywall.
Other tidbits:
- 373 residential units, appears to include most apartments but some condos
- Construction slated to start mid-2023 and complete in 2025.
- 395 parking spaces
- “There is no market in the country that we believe in more than the Triangle, and we couldn’t be more excited about the opportunity to build in the center of downtown Raleigh, just one block from Moore Square and walking distance from the CBD and the Warehouse District,” VeLa Principal Nick Benjamin said. “We expect this will be the first of many projects we build in the region and to start in the center of it all is an incredible opportunity.”
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Woah probably the best looking tower project in development in the Triangle at the moment. The two Durham towers under-construction and Creamery are probably in the top 4.
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eh, I don’t care for the tower design, personally. It’s a low-effort glass box with some darts of color for “interest.” The ground level looks like they didn’t spend any time designing a rich pedestrian experience at least in the preliminary elevations; I hope they develop this further. My favorite parts of the project are the slim proportions when viewed from the side, and that they went with a flat-iron-esque corner, which we rarely see these days. I love when buildings really complete the street edge like this instead of chamfering the corner.
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But on the subject of the Durham towers, and re: nice ground-level experiences despite having massive parking pedestals, I think this is a great example of how to do it. Much prefer this to slapping glass on the facade and calling it a day as this project seems to.
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and some characters
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I hope I’m right about that interpretation. The article isn’t explicit but they mention “penthouses” and “duplexes” (?) distinctly from the apartments: “VeLa officials said the units will be studios, one- and two-bedrooms apartments, one- and two-bedroom duplexes and two- and three-bedroom penthouses.”
Can’t get the full-size renderings to show anymore (not a subscriber) but somehow when I was able to get a peek earlier, the interiors look really nice too… some double-level units.
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…that last image appears to be in Charlotte LMAO
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Bahahaha! Well maybe they’re just very optimistic about our skyline progression. Tons of new buildings by the time they open!
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Raleigh’s just gonna expand to get SO BIG, that eventually we’ll just merge into one giant Mega City with Charlotte. Where’s Judge Dredd??
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That’s beautiful I want more design like this.
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