I read that article yesterday and thought it was some of the best insight on Russ I have every seen. If you back up and think of his ethos as having 1.25 acres of historic home and garden surrounded by a changing city and “holding back that tide” a lot of his political actions make more sense. One item mentioned briefly, but I am really curious about was the fact that the home was built by a former slave as part of Oberlin Village community but bought by his ancestors in the 20s or 30s. Those were very rough times to be black in the South. I wonder what the builders story is? Where did they go? Did they flee the South as part of the great migration? Makes me feel a little uncomfortable for Russ to think about his family essentially taking over the history of the place. Doesn’t jive well with some Livable Raleigh talking points.
For the second time the library in the Village District has a new name. A year ago in March the Wake County Board of Commissioners voted to drop the word “Cameron” from the library name and call it Village Regional Library. Yesterday after a student proposal, the Board unanimously voted to rechristen it Oberlin Regional Library to honour the historic Black Reconstruction-era community nearby.
There we go, a name change that truly makes sense and actually sounds unique.
This is a late response but this is the best way to encourage citizens to walk instead of drive.
But you have to drive there in order to walk.
A lot of movement at the Bellwood condos the past several days. Looks like they might start the demo soon. Have fully built out the construction entrance and had a crew today removing appliances from the units. It had been a while since anything had been done, so it was encouraging to see the activity.
I had forgotten about this one, actually, but looked it up and realized it’s right next to the library. I do remember seeing the fences up. Not to get into a debate about affordable housing, etc. but these apartments are starting to look very out of place in the Village District. I’m not surprised to see them going away.
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Trying new stuff! I like it.
I think this must be taking advantage of the new missing middle regulations. The most single family home looking townhomes in Raleigh.
Also, great porch coverage 
*before anyone else spends too much time trying to figure out where Oberlin and Maywood intersect, it’s Mayview 
How come I’m getting the feeling that these are going to a million bucks a pop? Does anyone know? I’ll be absolutely shocked if these come in below 800K each.
I wish that the far right porch connected to the back yard. Other than this long side porch being a more friendly nod to Oberlin facade, I don’t know it would ever be used.
I see it used for storage, excess upholstered furniture, beer cans waiting to go to recycling etc.
Wait, am I betraying to much of my own character here?
I think average new single family homes right around this are $1,500,000 plus. Crazy to say, but $850,000 would make these the most affordable family sized thing built around there in a few years. Not calling that affordable, but better than the alternative.
Other note: how many sqft are these going to be? There are 4 bedroom 2,100 sqft homes next to me on Milburnie that are like these with one more bedroom upstrairs. Seem like more modest homes overall.
beat me to it, I was going to say old appliances and broken furniture and out of fashion 
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My guesstimate is that they are in the 1850-1900 ft2 range excluding the garage. At $500 a foot, that would put them under a million, but $500 a foot might be low for this location. At $600 a foot, they go over a million.
Just looked it up in Imaps and this is in the Oberlin Village NCOD and the general historic district overlay for Oberlin Village. In R-10 zoning but three of these on 0.23 acres is 13 units an acre. Much better than two big homes IMO.
Way better than the one major house that’s being built diagonally across the Dartmouth apartments in North Hills at 4300 Camelot Dr. What a waste.
Yeah, the fact that they’re just barely “attached” looks like a good way to use the new townhouse regulations while assuaging “house” buyers.
This sort of multifamily can be easily dropped into nearly any legacy suburban neighborhood without an issue. That said, I think that I’d prefer for them to not look exactly the same.