Refresh my memory, these are all 20 stories too, right?
(Edit: this was sarcasm. #ifailed)
these are basically 5 over 1 style buildings or whatever theyre called. I believe phase two wants to add 2 20 story towers on the north side
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I think phase 2 was scrapped a while back but maybe I’m wrong
First I’m hearing. Didn’t they just get that all approved? Different company tho
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Yeah that was a different company… I doubt that development will ever materialize but that’s my personal opinion
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Seaboard block B is complete. Block A and C are in progress. The Logan’s redevelopment was always longer range out. Logan’s has to build out their new location first.
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Glad to see the 3rd apartment project has started…
But more exciting is this unadorned parking deck that’s going to remain uncovered even upon completion, directly facing Logan’s and the eventual maybe Phase 2.
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Turns out it’s actually gonna be a GucciLittlePigSty
A few walking around today…
This could be a really cool street… if it actually connected to downtown.
Also, that RAL E t-shirt is also available as a sticker and wall art at Hunky Dory. You know, if you don’t want to rep your city when you travel, and want to keep your Raleigh love to yourself at home. 
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grab me that pack of Cheese Tiddies 
Fantastic shots. Raleigh’s skyline from this view look really significant versus the views from the South of downtown. Love it!
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First, love seeing other eyes in the sky and helping document our amazing city’s transformation for future consumption! Thanks as always, @atl_transplant!
Second, what a transformation Seaboard Stations is undergoing, and still so much to go!
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It’ll be nice to see the development here. And density is always a plus. I remember being back there once, my middle school Exploris had expanded the Elementary School on the first day of school for both they had nowhere to put the Elementary kids. So the elementary kids had an extended 2 week vacation. 2 weeks later for a few days were in a community center behind Cameron Village for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade a for few days we had to walk from Hillsborough Street all the way to the community center, while the elementary school kids used our building. The reason that happened is because they were waiting for a permit from the city to open a bunch of trailers on New Bern Ave to house the elementary kids. I tell ya it was a nice experience the last days of my peaceful days before puberty then everything went downhill from then.
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Great photos Phil!!
It’s too bad our overhead utilities create, at times, massive constraints on vertical development.
This is probably half an acre that could have been more retail, housing, or more intense amenity, but it appears to be eaten up by high voltage easement.
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- Downtown needs electricity
- The power lines have to go somewhere.
If you relocate them (at enormous expense) they will just block their new location from being developed. If relocation were feasible, the developer surely would have pursued it. No way to win here - there’s nothing to do but just accept (or, dare I say it, embrace?) the high voltage infrastructure (transmission lines and substations).
On the other hand, I do not believe that the developer had to basically waste that space like they did with crappy landscaping. Could they maybe have put a plaza, with better landscaping and perhaps even active uses like dining spaces in that easement?
Anyway, what’s done is done. Let’s focus on burying the lower voltage disitribution lines instead.
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My thoughts exactly… why even bother with the dirt and shrubs, just pave the whole thing and put some small shade tree (planters) and some seating here and there. With perhaps a space for a food truck to park and plug direct-in (so no need for loud/exhausty generators).
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Put it in the median of Interstate Capital BLVD!
Just pointing out the constraints that the average person doesn’t think about when condemning those greedy developers. Just guessing, but we’re probably looking at close to $100,000 in grading, drainage, concrete, and landscaping to cover that easement.
They probably had to minimize the concrete somewhat if those softscaped planters drain into a sand-filter below grade. All of this stuff as you know is quantified and calculated by the civil engineer, including the impervious surface through that easement and runoff it generates during the 100 year and 500 year storm.
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Good catch - When I first looked at that I was thinking how great it was they left a large open space for outdoor dinning or something. I didn’t even notice the power lines.
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