This could be interpreted as progress for that development where Legends currently sits. I believe they were making accommodations for Legends in that new building, but of course we’re looking at 2+ years for construction once there’s actual ground breaking.
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I noticed that some work was being done on those buildings last week. Glad to hear this because losing Litmus was a real bummer. That whole area has been a dead zone and eyesore because the buildings have been neglected where active businesses used to be.
The city really needs to financially penalize speculative property purchases that kick out active businesses and then let the property rot for years and detract from the community. Enough.
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What happened to the gneiss rocks??? We shouldn’t be taking them for granite! 
#GeologistHumor
In my hometown, we have a beautiful granite (granodiorite to be specific) outcropping in the basement of the history museum. We also had one in the basement of one our houses when I was growing up. Why must we destroy the rocks?? 
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Sooner than later she’ll be bought out and dump livable Raleigh, it a matter of time. Livable Raleigh don’t have deep pockets just wait with time shell sell out I hope she does.
Because John Kane needs to build Something Better Than What Was There Before®.
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There’s a lot of ground work happening this week:
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That’s one giant ant hill.
That’s a jump. Read @urbanist report on the change of plans. As long as they have some seafoam to jump over!
There seems to be activity (building out the spaces) at Platform, in the retail spaces on either side of Homebody Yoga. Anyone know what’s going in there?
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There is now a large construction trailer located on the lot at West Street (diagonal to Phase 2 of the Platform). They also have a nice storage shed and are parking their construction vehicles.
This tells me two things 1) the Platform 2 project is well underway and now beyond the very beginning stages and 2) 401 Cabarrus Street apartments are not going to be built anytime soon (next 1 1/2 to 2 years is my best guess at the earliest).
This might be a big plus for Phase 2 of the Platform but it is huge loss of 401 Cabarrus Street Apartments on so many levels. Stay turned.
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Trigger warning
Okay, people wont like this but if I wanted to be generous, I might point out the seaform is supposed to be a throwback to “Streamline Moderne” architectural style, sort of Artdeco meets Futurism, often with aerodynamic design elements.
That said, seaform on the exterior makes no sense out of context. It just looks tacky. You have to go inside the building to find the thematic continuity. For example:
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This I dont mind. It is bizzaro accent use that find ugly.
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You know I don’t mind this either. It works. First it is more blue than seafoam and second it is more retro and not stuck on the building like some bad after thought.
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Exactly. It also works for the occasional historic home in a neighborhood of eclectically colored houses. Or bridesmaid dresses… 
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But then you are wrong, my friend!
Streamline Moderne is the BEST era of American design, and Googie and Atomic Age Futurism and… I think the only Streamline Moderne building in the area is the WPTF transmitter building in Cary, which you can’t even really see from the road. The Williams House on Chatham in downtown Cary (which is… finally open as, something? I haven’t been by in a long time) is from the era and the Williamses themselves worked at WPTF) has nods to the style but I wouldn’t call it a pure example.
Obviously all of this is just an OPINION but as I like to tell my students, some opinions are more right than others…
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