Development Beat
Development Beat: Site Plan Redux
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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.
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Wake County Schools’ Top 159 Mascots
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With more than 150 schools already in the system, and plans to add 13 new facilities over the next five years, we decided to dig into one crucial but often overlooked issue: what were the names of these assorted schools’ mascots, and who got to decide?
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Development Beat: Terrific Tuesday
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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.
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Development Beat: New Building Report
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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.
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Nearly 50 Businesses Aided by City’s Expanding Facade Grant Program
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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.
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Development Beat: Renovation Roundup
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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.
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Development Beat: Real Estate Report
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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.
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53 City Vehicles “Totaled” Over Last Four Years
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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.
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Development Beat on Hillsborough Street: The H-Street Kitchen
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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.
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Development Beat: Terrible Tuesday
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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.
