Venereal District…
I’ve been calling it “M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village” in jest
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We have Downtown South, why not Downtown WEST! haha
(Sarcasm font)
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Downtown South. There’s another name that I don’t like!
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BIG agree. There is “downtown” and then there are other districts that surround it. Downtown South just sounds stupid.
“So the south end of the downtown area?”
“NO! A different downtown that is south of Downtown”
“…wtf are you talking about there is one downtown”
“No now there’s two downtowns, one central downtown and one downtown SOUTH!”
“is there a downtown North?”
“No, that’s Midtown!”
WTF???
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And to echo @wanderer I like “West Village” - just simple and non-flashy. NYC has “East Village” - Raleigh can have West!
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NYC has a West Village. It’s one of the trendiest and most expensive places to live in the city.
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Oh I know, East Village NYC is just the more talked-about/well known neighborhood. At least in my experience (where a lot of comedians and SNL cast members hang out)! I guess my point being that it’s not unheard of to call a 'hood “[direction] Village” - whereas “Village District” is, as everybody seems to rightly agree, is so bland and so generic that it’s laughable. Just add the “West” to it and it suddenly classes it up and adds just enough info to it that it doesn’t sound slapped on and completely devoid of thought.
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I’m just not a big proponent of everything ending up being directional. It feels lazy and sterile to me.
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Oberlin District (more characters)
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(Park your car in front of where you’re) Shopping District (or bitch about it if you can’t…) ?
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I wasn’t exactly sure where to put this, but an interesting proposal just hit the Wire.
A developer wants to keep the IHOP house/building and redevelop it into office space, then build an apartment building on the corner that previously held the parking for IHOP. The apartment building will have 16 units total Seven 1br, Six 2br, and Three 3br.
These will look nearly identical to all the other beige and vanilla apartments surrounding this location.
Welcome to Eastern Europe.
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It will be like IHOP version of the “Up” house. I am kind of excited to see that. Kind of laughing that all the people who had sentimental IHOP feelings kind of get their wish now. They should do something cool with keeping the sign.
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Raleigh: Where IHOP buildings are historic treasures that will be renovated in order to be saved at all costs, but a 100 year old building that has housed multiple purposes, including most recently a nationally famed comedy club is set to be destroyed without a second thought LMAO.
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more like CMAO 
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Don’t know if it’s been posted yet but the new Barnes & Noble is coming together over in the Village. Says opening is sometime this summer.
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I’d love for the village district to stay the same density wise but the Cameron Park neighborhood should become a neighborhood full of apartment buildings, I think it’s destined to happen eventually.
Heck, 40 years ago most of those big houses were apartments!
Cameron Park is as important as Oakwood in the historic fabric of the city. I’d hate to see anything change it significantly.
Now, bank row on Clark - that is ripe for redevelopment.
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If anything, both Cameron Village and Cameron Park are getting uplifted in terms of single family homes; it’s not moving in the opposite direction. That said, there is still a ton of adjacent property that’s ripe for redevelopment including the former Bellwood Condos that are already slated for demolition and re-imagining. In addition to the aforementioned bank row on Clark, the Raleigh Apartments and others along Smallwood are ripe for redevelopment and densification.
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I have an armchair-developer dream that the entirety of the “Bank Row” on Clark will be redevloped into 5-6 over 1’s, with ground-floor retail all along Clark Ave (essentially extending the Cameron Village shopping center across the street), and then parking behind the retail spaces that can be accessed from the back of the buildings (thus making them essentially invisible from the street), and then the Capital Bank on the triangular shaped corner of Clark x Oberlin could become a 10-15 story condo building in the shape/style of the Flatiron Building in NYC, and the Bank of America on the opposite corner could become a 7-12 story building, which would instantly densify the entirety of Cameron Village and truly cross it over into urban, infinitely walkable city streets.
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