I’m just loving the construction energy at Seaboard Station. I’m not sure why exactly but I’m just hyped about what it’ll be in the near future. It’s great to see and I hope it gets ALL the retail. The northern gateway to DTR is basically Seaboard and Smoky Hollow. If the railroad bridge could get cleaned up and some even better bike/ped added to Peace, these two areas will really gel. Love it!
Snapped these yesterday. That new sidewalk along Halifax is looking nice.
Extra wide sidewalk along Halifax due to the Duke Energy easement. Power lines aren’t all bad!
It’s still super surreal because this is one of the few areas of downtown I got to know and now it looks completely different. I’m not gonna go all NIMBY because the businesses I liked most all closed or sold outside of this, but it’s definitely a transition of an era.
Nice pics btw!
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Excellent pictures! Thank you so very much 
We could rename this area North Hills South 
Saw this from @TriangleExplorer on Twitter
Would that 
be from the Playstation ? 
Oh no now I can’t unsee it.
That building needs to be refaced and modernized expeditiously
I think everyone here has had it backwards. Maybe the Playstation copied the Archdale building? Here’s a photo of downtown Raleigh from the early 1980s about a decade before a Playstation ever came out
Goodnight Raleigh | a look at the art, architecture, history, and people of the city at night
And converted into a Video Game museum.
This is the Raleigh I grew up in, haunting this downtown. It is amazing how the tree cover looks pretty continuous right into Union Sq and then down Fayett
Both Archdale and CP&L went up about the same time (convention center too) and it was pretty cool to have two black and white buildings punctuate a very linear skyline.
Hate this skyline the BB&T and Wells Fargo (then Wachovia) was making the skyline a little more better city like. Back then maybe they should rezoned all of downtown to 40-80 story’s as a future investment. And a thorough way or freeway into and out of downtown from 40 to 440.
if i recall dobbs, archdale, maybe the bath bldg and possibly the ‘legislative office bldg’ and maybe a parking deck or two all sprung up about the same time. it was fun to see them being built.
Why hate it? It is what it was.
I remember this Raleigh as well. I had my high school baccalaureate in that civic center (graduation was at Reynolds). I shopped the basement at Belk downtown, but there was little reason else to visit because I didn’t work downtown after graduating from State.
Some are only here to offer complaints. 
A discussion over on another thread makes me wonder: does anybody know whether this development will be putting in a stoplight at the intersection of Peace and Seaboard?
Yeah but did Raleigh leaders back then envision what the city would be back then.
Indeed the leaders back then did envision what the city was back then. I think the question you’re trying to ask is whether they envisioned what it would be now. Try again.
