North Carolina development thread. (Charlotte, Raleigh: renovations, German, advantage)
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If downtown is going to grow exponentially, it will need developers willing to bet big on something transformational. This would be that. No need to nitpick. This would be the largest capital expenditure in the city’s history and it would likely pool regional money inside-the-beltline that is now destined for out. You can’t understate the potential.
Charlotte is growing out to Southend for 2 or 3 miles and no one says that want work. If DTR is to grow, you are going to have developer to think outs the box and come up with new developments. Who knows, but in the future Raleigh could build a street line to tight all this development together.
Charlotte is growing out to Southend for 2 or 3 miles and no one says that want work. If DTR is to grow, you are going to have developer to think outs the box and come up with new developments. Who knows, but in the future Raleigh could build a street line to tight all this development together.
Ok, but Raleigh has their own version of SouthEnd.... this area is not their SouthEnd. At best, a farther away Avid Xchange music factory.
A small boost will be Biotage moving their U.S. HQ to Charlotte from Charlottesville. Biotage is a Swedish manufacture of medical instruments. This is mostly notewothy not for the number of jobs (I'm guessing less than 20) but the fact that Charlotte is quitely attracting a large number of suppliers of medical instruments. Not as sexy as drugs (the legal kind), but certainly a more stable and growing part of the bio-science market.
A small boost will be Biotage moving their U.S. HQ to Charlotte from Charlottesville. Biotage is a Swedish manufacture of medical instruments. This is mostly notewothy not for the number of jobs (I'm guessing less than 20) but the fact that Charlotte is quitely attracting a large number of suppliers of medical instruments. Not as sexy as drugs (the legal kind), but certainly a more stable and growing part of the bio-science market.
There’s supposed to be a “gigantic” and “yugeeeeee” development news today according to good sources on the other site. We’ll see
It's not enough by any means. They feel completely separate. From Hillsborough Street up North, it's so. It'a typical 1970's governmental building wasteland feeling. A few retail-less mega blocks of 5 floor Apartment buildings don't make that area full of energy or density. The Development at Peace and Capital is fabulous, but still there. It's more towards the Glenwood area. completely an island from again, the rest of DT. Not to mention, the Train tracks and highway cut it off in most areas too.
But the biggest sticking point is all the government buildings. Take a walk down West Street. Yeah. It's got buidlings in between but its beyond lifeless.
Infill needs to happen between Glenwood South and the Warehouse District and everything in between. Otherwise, it'll be a collection of pockets of nice urbanism with deplorable governmental buildings and streets in between. All I ask for at this point is development, redevelopments, street activation between Glenwood and Warehouse.
Unfortunately, this is something that capital cities around Raleigh's size (that weren't very historically significant) have to deal with. Columbia, SC, laid out very similarly with a big downtown footprint, is dealing with a very similar issue. You've got lots of institutional uses sprinkled throughout downtown and sometimes large tracts of land become available for development that aren't contiguous to the most active stretches but you have to take the opportunity to get them developed now and work towards infill over the long term.
Ok, but Raleigh has their own version of SouthEnd.... this area is not their SouthEnd. At best, a farther away Avid Xchange music factory.
Raleigh doesn’t need to be built exactly like Charlotte. We haven’t in the past, we won’t in the future.
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