Site 4 Promises Chic Addition
Site 4 of Raleigh’s Convention Center Area Plans involves the small green space at Salisbury and Lenoir Streets (between Salisbury and the parking deck). The site is adjacent to the new convention center and diagonally across from the new Marriott convention hotel. The site request includes an 80-100 room boutique hotel with a feature restaurant [...]
Site 1 Proposals Bring Excitement
There are several sites surrounding the new convention center that are top redevelopment priorities for the City. Today we’ll examine Site 1; the site currently occupied by the east half of the current civic center. The master plan for the site is for it to offer either a mixed-use development with residential, restaurants, and a [...]
New Openings Coming This Fall
It is getting busier with more new openings abound in Raleigh. We’ll start with North Hills where Lile’s Clothing Studio (nice men’s clothing) will go into the space directly across from McAllister’s. According to today’s News & Observer their store at Stonehenge Market will remain open. The spaces flanking the escalators across from Ben & [...]
RBC May Build Downtown Tower
If you saw the front page of the News & Observer paper today, I hope you thought of us! Many months ago RBC Centura Bank floated the idea of moving their U.S. corporate headquarters from Rocky Mount to Raleigh. While I feel very sorry for Rocky Mount on this, RBC Centura is the nation’s 42nd [...]
Unwelcome Development
While driving up Boylan Ave the other day (after visiting my favorite shoe store, Firefly) and getting ready to turn right onto Peace, I was greeted with a large sign advertising another new downtown condominium building. This one is called The Glen on Peace and will sit right on the SE corner of the intesection [...]
