The Department of City Planning/the Urban Design Center will be hosting its 3rd Annual Downtown Raleigh Home Tour this Saturday. Held during the same weekend as Artsplosure, the tour (which is self-guided) is intended to show off the great variety of options available in downtown housing. The tour takes you through historic properties, single family homes, rentals, and luxury condos.
Anyone who takes the tour can expect to see not only the grand opening of the Plaza (RBC) Condominium sales model, but also Carlton Place Apartments, Founder’s Row, The Dawson, Bloomsbury Estates, a few rehab’d historic homes, the Residences at Quorum, West at North, the plans for the redevelopment of Blount Street, Village at Pilot Mill, 712 Tucker, 630 North, and a handful of other apartments, homes, and condos. For the full map, check out the website at www.raleighdowntownliving.com.
It is a self guided (and sometimes walking) tour but now that Raleigh has rickshaws you can just grab a ride with one of them! Tickets are $10 and “proceeds from ticket sales benefit the Department’s Designing as 21st Century City lecture series. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Support Circles Program of the Plan to End Homelessness, the joint City of Raleigh, Wake County, Triangle United Way, and Wake Continuum of Care effort aimed at ending homelessness in Raleigh and Wake County.”
Sure would be nice if these types of posts were up more than a day before the event. Sorry to be negative, but not everyone has weekends free…
Not to be a meany, but do you really count on Raleighing for your news and entertainment agenda? Info on the tour has been up and around for about a month- don’t blame a blog for not knowing about it or not being available for the event. Sure, one-stop-shopping for news/gossip/updates/reviews/etc/etc, would be fantastic, but Raleighing is a luxury- not a right.
Eh, or maybe I’m just grumpy this morning.
Did anyone else on here go to the private reception for the tour Friday night? The free wine was great, but most of the crowd was a bit pretentious. Jazz band was on point.
I took the tour and I was very pleased. They told me that the attendance was lower than last year’s, but it was still very encouraging. Of course, such tours would be far more interesting in 2010, when all of the planned projects will be done. I am not sure anything new will be available next year, outside what we have already seen. Since I didn’t check all of the destinations, I will have a few more stops to add next time.