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A relatively short and uneventful afternoon session of City Council was combined Tuesday with a lengthy, agenda-packed evening session where Councilors heard five rezoning cases and eight public petitions from citizens, including a lengthy dialogue on police accountability in Raleigh.
We take a look today at two recently filed site plans, one for yet another student housing complex on Hillsborough Street and another for a new bar named The Cardinal on N. West Street downtown.
We don’t have a teardown to talk about today, but we do a have a rebuild resulting from an unintended demolition at Boylan Bridge Brewpub in February to look at.
Pay-what-you-can restaurant A Place at the Table won’t be opening in Raleigh until January 2017, but it’s holding a series of pop-up events around the city in the meantime to spread the word about their organization. The first such event was this past Saturday at Solas.
While the most interesting thing on the agenda for this week’s 1 p.m. City Council meeting is a report from the waste reduction task force, the evening meeting is jam-packed with a total of ten citizen petitions and eight public hearings.
Back in December, the Gordon Street Family Apartments were torn down by Legacy Custom Homes. In February, Legacy bought the property and is now developing four single-family homes on the site.
Established in the 1980s, the City of Raleigh’s Facade Grant Program has doled out just under $700,000 to assist a total of 47 businesses in improving an assortment of building exteriors.
There was a full moon in Raleigh last week, and Record editor James Borden went out to try and get some shots of the city from the Boylan Street Bridge and Dix Park.
Today on the Development Beat, we take a look at some recent renovation projects, including the beginning of a relocation of the Tobacco Road Sports Cafe from 222 Glenwood to the former home of Natty Greene’s on West Jones Street.
