I can see a not too distant future where the surface parking and suburban layout of the Village formerly known as Cameron becomes too valuable for this land use. Build a 5 story deck and build apartments between the shops with ground floor retail!!!
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I could be totally wrong but I almost get the sense that this is how the people in that area âwantâ it to be?
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Probably among Raleighâs âLadies who lunchâ ITB crowd, They would never go for Cameron village being anything other than what it is now.
I agree it will probably get densified, perhaps the âNorth hills treatmentâ At some point in the not too distant future.
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I could see the (choke um) the Village being redeveloped with offices,5 or more stories, setback to allow wide sidewalks with some landscaping along Clark and Oberlin (C&O). Replace the current C&O facing retail with parking decks that would be in center of block hidden by offices. On the interior streets redevelop as retail with apartments, which would also hide parking, over retail. The retail/apartments being set back 50ft or so with park like landscaped and lots outside dinning for restaurants as well just relaxing seating and fountains. I think this would give urban feel to the C&O streets with a dense neighborhood+green space feel to current interior streets that would marge with current residential to north and east of those areas. Do the C&O blocks first and then each interior block one at a time to keep the retail around while doing the redevelopment. I may have to try to create a plat and pictures to get what Iâm envisioning across.
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I think they could maybe do something like this?
Move the âroadsâ to right by the store fronts. Underground parking with a 5+1 apartment with ground floor retail in between the âblocksâ like this. Could do like 4 blocks like this and maybe choose 1 for a open park space like north hills park.
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That is exactly what I envisioned last night sitting beside the 140â chasm of pavement between the existing shops and restaurants. Donât touch whatâs there if not needed; simply densify around it. Incrementally intense in use and form
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Itâs a pretty neat place with some good shops and restaurants but they could really take things to the next level.
Even bank row could be converted to 5 over 1s with the banks having the ground levels. Iâm sure they could find a way to incorporate drive thrus somehow
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Itâs been âtoo valuableâ for yearsâŚyet nothing ever happens
This was a screenshot from some development study from the city from April 2015. Not really sure if its still online anywhere. But seems hard to believe this would actually happen.
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(A better version of) that drawing has already a part of the cityâs local development plans since February 2018. I googled "cameron village" plan, and quickly realized thatâs probably a draft rendering that got polished and became a part of the Cameron Village/Hillsborough St. Small Area Plan.
The renderings are probably concepts for how the Village District could be denser and taller, include lots of parking etc. without being too imposing to nearby residents, since transition developments and setbacks were newer, more confusing concepts back then.
This is what the final draftâs version of that picture shows:
âŚand the sort of walking space @atl_transplant sketched is actually a part of this plan, too:
ABC11 and the N&O have articles from when it went through several rounds of public review, if you want to see how things looked at the time.
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Been saying this for years^^^^ makes no sense to have ALLLL that space of surface parking, when most of it could be consolidated into one deck (perhaps where the former K&W Cafeteria stands? I thought that was actually the plan for that lot anyway) and then all the current surface parking could be developed into 5 story apartments/office over retail, just like North Hills is set up. Leaving streets between the current standing buildings and the new buildings, with limited street parking and then some âparkletâ street restaurant seating, wouldnât even need to touch the existing buildings while the new ones go up.
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Maybe have one or two corner/end lots be built up 10-15 stories for office, the rest 4 or 5 over 1s be apartments.
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Whatâs happening to the homes/buildings at the corner of Clark & Bellwood? Looks like theyâve all been vacated and now thereâs fencing around it all. Is this a known project already?
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Itâs probably the apartment complex posted up here:
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This project is called Camden Village Apartments at present. It was Cameron Village Apartments until woke culture made its presence known a couple months ago. This is a large project!
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About 7 condos for 615 Daniels st hit pending status this morning
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Iâve been seeing these go up over the past 2ish months! Fills in that gap nicely
I would love to see an overture 55+ apartment styled development with 400 units across from where the old K&W? was located. I think a development like that would fit perfectly there since there are a lot of rich older folk living there, which will have to move eventually.
I would not like to see that kind of development anywhere lmao. There are apartments and there are retirement homes. The weirdo âage limit/minimumâ apartments are⌠weird and donât add anything to the city, IMO.