I’ll add that we (Fairweather HOA) had a local landscape company draft renderings and a proposal for adding a much nicer landscape in this space but there were a few issues:
1 - price, as a new HOA with a new budget and dues that were not sufficient from the onset for 10/20/30 year projections, landscaping just didn’t take any priority
2 - this easement, while partially belongs to the Fairweather, Duke has rights to mow down anything they want in the way and no provisions for remediation if/when that happens, so our investment could just go down the drain because Duke needs to perform maintenance on the high voltage lines
So the landscaping didn’t happen, and likely won’t ever.
Tell me what I’m missing. I see a person on the sidewalk taking a short video of construction workers leaving a job site. Where are the terminators and nuclear weapons?
If you walk too close to the construction zone, you trip the sensors and the nice lady orders you to leave. But they are hypersensitive and easy to trigger accidentally. That’s what happened here…
Feel like connecting the Union Station area to West End would be a game-changer. Hopefully the city does something to connect these two areas in the near future.
The longer they waste time not building the damn West St extension tunnel there, the more difficult and exponentially expensive it’s going to become - and thus the less likely it will happen, at all. Classic Raleigh.
I believe this project has not scored high enough to be funded by the State/CAMPO. This project along with hundreds of others around CAMPO’s region (Wake and portions of Chatham, Franklin, Granville, Harnett, and Johnston Co.) have to compete against each other for funding.
The funding for local projects is small, to be frank, with 10 or so municipal roadway projects being selected this fiscal year (NCDOT Division). Having it be in a future municipal bond is another option.
Susannah Baird is opening Bright Side Books & Wine at Platform. It will be focused on romance books, but will also have food and beverages catered to the evening crowd.
great sun set really brings out the beauty of a raw 5 over 1.
for the moment anyway.