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With the downtown riverfront Aloft Hotel in Wilmington about to top out, the downtown region (Leland is across the Brunswick river from Wilmington) continues its massive growth.
Leland has a lot of dense, walkable development which is wonderful.
But it's also hot and humid as all get out.
I wonder if there are any indigenous types of shade trees that could be planted planted in mass quantity to cool down some of those parking lots in big box shopping centers and all of the dense apartments and condos.
Trees are my favorite weapon in battling so much of the Earth's growing challenges.
How could those towns go wrong by encouraging more tree plantings?
That hotel wouldn't be approved in Raleigh nor NYC because it has too much stucco or EFIS which doesn't age well. More brick and less of that would help it staying appealing-looking for the long haul I think.
I'm not criticizing it, but people should be vigilant because developers will use the cheapest exterior cladding they can get away with. and later the town could be negatively affected by it in so many ways.
Midtown Exchange finally has an update. The first 12 story building for the November announced project has had site plans filed. This will be going up at 1010 St. Alban's, which is right across the street from the Coastal Credit Union office building and directly behind the Hilton Hotel. In fact, it's right on the corner where the "Midtown Exchange" sign is at:
Not sure if this was discussed in here already, but some new owners of 33 acres worth of low density office/warehouses behind Raleigh's Wegmans have filed a rezoning request to allow for up to 20 stories mixed-use. How cool would that be? More mid-rise buildings visible from the highway is something I can get behind. With only trees and office buildings visible from the Beltline, I think it would look really unique compared to almost all the other metros in the country where the only highway scenery is parking lots, gas stations, fast food restaurants, access roads, etc. But man this whole midtown area is going to be completely transformed in 5-10 years. This potential project, Midtown Exchange finally getting going, the revamp of the JCP side of North Hills, then on down to the Ironworks project on Wake Forest @ Whitaker Mill, sheesh. I am sure glad I got into my house when I did! I just can't wait for more pedestrian/cyclist accommodations. Crossing the Beltline either on foot or bicycle is still tremendously nerveracking. Eventually there's supposed to be a ped bridge crossing 440 from Bush St. to Industrial St. Can't happen soon enough.
Midtown Exchange finally has an update. The first 12 story building for the November announced project has had site plans filed. This will be going up at 1010 St. Alban's, which is right across the street from the Coastal Credit Union office building and directly behind the Hilton Hotel. In fact, it's right on the corner where the "Midtown Exchange" sign is at:
Raleigh is going to have a corridor of high density from Downtown South to Downtown through Midtown to North Hills. Hope the northern route of the BRT accounts for this, frankly, given this predicament it would benefit the city to consider a '?' shaped underground subway (or skyway like Vancouver) between all these major points plus Crabtree area. If we say that's a 10 mile route and the average US cost of a subway line per mile is $500 million. That's about $5 billion dollars. That's very reasonable especially when you consider new highways (and adding lanes to old highways) cost billions of dollars and all they do is increase traffic via induced demand.
The first renderings were released yesterday for the Atrium health partnership with Wake Forest medical school in Charlotte.
You can't blame them. Scandinavia Design has been played out so hard it's become a pretty typical style now.
Just look at the brand new Oslo Main Library in Norway and I suspect the new City of Raleigh tower will be pretty familiar as well.
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