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Today on the Development Beat, we count down the top ten largest real estate sales in Raleigh since the beginning of 2016, including the record-breaking sale of the Skyhouse Raleigh apartments in the core of downtown.
Earlier this month, City Councilors approved a $90,944 budget transfer to pay for replacement vehicles after City-owned cars were scrapped due to accidents, and it appears staff’s initial report overstated the total number of totaled cars for the fiscal year of 2016.
Today on the Development Beat, we take a look at the ongoing work at the former home of the Varsity Theater and the Hillsborough Street Textbook Store. Once Rufty-Peedin finishes construction, the new H-Street Kitchen will open in the space.
A quick photographic tour of the current status of a few ongoing construction projects on Hillsborough Street, including the Hillsborough Street Lofts, 2304 Hillsborough and the former Varsity Theater/Hillsborough Street Textbooks soon to be H-Street Kitchen.
Today we take a look at the history of the original North Carolina State Penitentiary, which started out as a series of log-cabin detention cells and eventually morphed into massive, gothic structure by the time construction on the actual facility was completed in 1884, nearly 20 years after the State Legislature first authorized the project.
Permits have been issued for North Carolina’s first J. Alexander’s restaurant, which will be located behind the Crabtree Valley Mall in the Crabtree Commons Development, which was once home to Kidd’s Hill Plaza and the Steak and Ale restaurant.
The Capital Plaza hotel at 2815 Capital Boulevard has sat vacant and abandoned for years, but once funding is secured, a brand-new Raddison Hotel will take its place and the entire property will be rehabilitated.
A Place at the Table, a pay-what-you-can nonprofit cafe, plans to open its doors in Raleigh by the beginning of 2017. Before then, it will be hosting a series of pop-up events at local businesses and restaurants, beginning April 2nd at 11 a.m. at Solas on Glenwood.
Planning Commissioners this week presided over a lively discussion attended by more than a dozen surrounding neighbors for a proposed rezoning case that would fill a now-vacant lot in North Raleigh on Strickland Road with 64 townhomes.
Earlier today, a story about the NCDOT cracking down on people going less than ten miles over the speed limit exploded on social media and across the web. The one problem: how accurate was this claim? We investigate.
