{"id":120067,"date":"2016-09-09T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=120067"},"modified":"2016-09-09T09:45:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T13:45:42","slug":"development-beat-future-demolition-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2016\/09\/09\/development-beat-future-demolition-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Development Beat: Future Demolition Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Brought to you by Rufty-Peedin Design Build<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, September 9, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been far too long since we had the chance to write about the old Foxy Lady gentlemen&#8217;s club here in the Development Beat, so when I saw a demolition contract on the agenda for this week&#8217;s Council meeting, I jumped at the chance to cover it.<\/p>\n<p>Torn down in early 2015, the Foxy Lady was attached to the\u00a0 low-slung, one-story Milner Inn and was\u00a0located on\u00a0the 1800 block of Capital BouleIvard.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21852\"  class=\"wp-caption module image aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-21852\" src=\"http:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/milner2-771x514.jpg\" alt=\"The Milner Inn &amp; The Foxy Lady, still standing the day after heavy flooding\" width=\"771\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/milner2-771x514.jpg 771w, https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/milner2-336x224.jpg 336w, https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/milner2-1170x780.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Milner Inn &amp; The Foxy Lady, still standing the day after heavy flooding<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0city had been working for years to acquire not only the Milner Inn\/Foxy Lady property, but several adjacent ones as well, with plans to turn the flood-prone zone into a park\/greenway space.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_121559\"  class=\"wp-caption module image aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-121559\" src=\"http:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-771x578.jpeg\" alt=\"The site of the former Milner Inn &amp; Foxy Lady\" width=\"771\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-771x578.jpeg 771w, https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-336x252.jpeg 336w, https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-1170x878.jpeg 1170w, https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-800x600.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The site of the former Milner Inn &amp; Foxy Lady<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The demolition for Milner\/Foxy was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2014\/11\/17\/development-beat-demolition-begins-on-former-elementary-school\/\">bid out<\/a>\u00a0in late 2014 and\u00a0was eventually awarded to the Janezic Building Corp for $180,876. The contract entails\u00a0&#8220;asbestos abatement services, structure demolition and removal of the parking lot and access bridge that is located on the property.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>About two months ago,\u00a0I was driving up Capital Boulevard when I noticed that another motel along the same stretch as Milner Inn, The Capital Inn, had been closed up and fenced off. I filmed a brief Periscope video and speculated that its time was nigh.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.periscope.tv\/w\/apx_ATFEWktvZURwemxZRWF8MWt2S3BaQURWWURKRTsPHC8HkURmB7a4xX_mYXNrIGvugXYsrtu8C5SQfICk\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It turns out that prediction was a little premature, as a demolition contract with the City of Raleigh was only approved this week. Janezic will once again be handling the work, this time for $209,200. This demolition, which, like the rest of the work involved in this project, will be largely funded through a FEMA grant.<\/p>\n<p>Work on this contract will also include the demolition of the old Dunkin&#8217; Donuts building \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/ocp\/2014\/07\/01\/n-c-s-first-dunkin-closes\/\"> Raleigh&#8217;s first<\/a> \u2014 which shut down years ago (June of 2014) and has sat vacant ever since.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21853\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 336px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21853\" src=\"http:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/northblvdpark-336x390.jpg\" alt=\"A rendering of North Boulevard Park\" width=\"336\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/northblvdpark-336x390.jpg 336w, https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/northblvdpark-771x895.jpg 771w, https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/northblvdpark.jpg 1155w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of North Boulevard Park<\/p><\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<div id=\"slides-120067-c2da8088ffb0536676ec241fd45f26ed\" class=\"navis-slideshow one-up\"><div id=\"120067-c2da8088ffb0536676ec241fd45f26ed-slide1\"><img data-lazy=\"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-2.jpeg\" \/><h6 class=\"permalink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2016\/09\/09\/development-beat-future-demolition-friday\/#120067-c2da8088ffb0536676ec241fd45f26ed\/1\" class=\"slide-permalink\"><i class=\"icon-link\"><\/i> permalink<\/a><\/h6><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The former Dunkin' Donuts<\/p><\/div><div id=\"120067-c2da8088ffb0536676ec241fd45f26ed-slide2\"><img data-lazy=\"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-1.jpeg\" \/><h6 class=\"permalink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2016\/09\/09\/development-beat-future-demolition-friday\/#120067-c2da8088ffb0536676ec241fd45f26ed\/2\" class=\"slide-permalink\"><i class=\"icon-link\"><\/i> permalink<\/a><\/h6><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A peek inside the old donut sho<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>As mentioned above, the City will\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2014\/08\/18\/milner-inn-and-foxy-lady-to-be-replaced-by-city-park-eventually\/\">eventually<\/a> turn all this newly vacant space into the North Boulevard Park, which will serve not only as a green space of its own but as a connector between existing portions of the city&#8217;s greenway trail system. The park will be connected via a paved walkway that will extend from Crabtree Boulevard to Atlantic Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>City officials now predict it will take between five and 10 years before it has acquired and destroyed all of the property that now sits in the Capital Boulevard floodplain. Once this phase of its plan is complete, the city will bury all memories of the site\u2019s former existence beneath mounds of rich soil as it begins construction of the ominously titled North Boulevard Park.<\/p>\n<p>While the stated goal for the park is to restore the creek and bring back natural floodplain functions, its planned absorption by the Greenway System hints at who\u2019s really pulling the strings here. The park will be connected via a paved walkway that will extend from Crabtree Boulevard to Atlantic Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>While we believe the City has now wrapped up most of the acquisition portion of this project, and will soon finish the demolition phase, it&#8217;s worth noting that the former is a process that took years. \u00a0According to the minutes from a Feb. 19, 2013, City Council meeting, negotiations with the owners of the Milner Inn\u00a0took several years to close.<\/p>\n<p>After notifying the City Council of nearly $1.5 million in grant money for the project, then-City Manager Russell Allen told them that the project was a \u201cvolunteer thing on the part of the owners of the Milner Inn; they are willing to sell the property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, as the minutes also quote Allen as saying \u201cthe building be demolished and the area become green space,\u201d their veracity should best be taken with a grain of salt. Either that or Allen was minutes away from hulking out on the Councilors.<\/p>\n<p>The grant money \u2014 $1,100,785 from the feds and $366,928 from the state \u2014 is to be used for the \u201cacquisition and demolition of five structures at the Milner Inn on Capital Boulevard.\u201d Thanks, Obama.<\/p>\n<p>While nothing will make up for the loss of the treasured and historic businesses that once lined this strip of Capital Boulevard \u2014 a bowling alley, low-end motels, a Dunkin&#8217; Donuts, a strip club \u2014 we&#8217;re excited to see what the future holds for this portion of Capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City awarded a demolition contract this week for the teardown of the Capital Inn on Capital Boulevard, the latest in a series of structures in a flood-prone section of Capital to be acquired and torn down by the City in recent years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24061,"featured_media":22461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1599,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24061"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}