{"id":21943,"date":"2014-09-12T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=21943"},"modified":"2014-09-12T12:32:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T16:32:39","slug":"work-begins-on-north-hills-tower-ii-new-tenant-for-former-fat-daddys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2014\/09\/12\/work-begins-on-north-hills-tower-ii-new-tenant-for-former-fat-daddys\/","title":{"rendered":"Work Begins on North Hills Tower II; New Tenant for Former Fat Daddy\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"
Editor’s Note – this post has been updated to replace\u00a0a picture of \u00a0SkyHouse Atlanta with one of\u00a0SkyHouse Raleigh.<\/em><\/address>\n

On September 10, building permits for the long-awaited Tower II at North Hills were finally issued to Holder Construction LLC of Atlanta.<\/p>\n

\"Work

James Borden \/ Raleigh Public Record<\/p>

Work has begun at the site of North Hills Tower II<\/p><\/div>\n

It was just a few weeks ago that a reader inquired<\/a> as to the status of this building, originally<\/a> scheduled to begin construction in mid-August. A mere four days after this column published an answer<\/a>; permits were issued<\/a> for the foundation work to begin at the site. Coincidence? Definitely not.<\/p>\n

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A rendering of North Hills Tower II<\/p><\/div>\n

The $82-million, 18-story building will provide a little more than 275,000 additional square feet of office space to the North Hills development. The building will also contain five stories of indoor, covered parking. The permits issued indicate that the structure\u2019s total square footage will come in at around 563,579.<\/p>\n

The \u00a0North Hills development, which encompasses three separate centers across Six Forks and Lassiter Mill Roads, has long been a Raleigh retail destination. Although Cameron Village, which opened in 1949, was the area\u2019s first shopping center, in 1967 North Hills Mall became the area\u2019s first enclosed mall.<\/p>\n

The mall was anchored by tenants like J.C. Penney and Woolworth, and was home to a long-standing K&W Cafeteria.<\/p>\n

Adjacent to the mall and across Lassiter Mill Road sat North Hills Plaza, a strip center that contained the Cardinal movie theater and a Winn-Dixie grocery store. Of all the renovations at North Hills since Kane Realty bought the plaza in 1999 and the mall in 2001, those undertaken at the former home of the Cardinal Theatre are perhaps the most interesting.<\/p>\n

\"The

c\/o Box Office Magazine<\/p>

The Cardinal Theatre as it appeared in the October 16, 1967 issue of Box Office Magazine.<\/p><\/div>\n

An October 1967 issue of Box Office magazine profiled the Cardinal,\u00a0which had opened a few months earlier. The article can be found here<\/a> and here<\/a>.\u00a0It\u00a0described North Hills as \u201cone of the largest and fastest-growing shopping centers in the state, and the nearby residential areas consist of families whose incomes average over $10,000 a year.\u201d How little things have changed!<\/p>\n

\"cardinal3small\"The Cardinal, it said, was a \u201cdeluxe first-run house\u201d that was equipped with something called \u201cUltravision\u201d and a 55×26 foot screen. Typical screens today average 30 to 90 feet wide by 10 to 30 feet tall, so the Cardinal\u2019s screen size is nothing to scoff at. Box Office magazine also noted that the Cardinal would be the first theater in Raleigh to accommodate 70 mm projection.<\/p>\n

Also unique to Raleigh, the article noted, were the \u201csmoking sections at the rear of each side of the theatre, with a ventilating system to remove smoking odor.\u201d<\/p>\n

The one-screen theater contained 750 \u201cdark green rocking chair seats\u201d and the walls were \u201cdraped in acoustical curtains of blue, green, black and gold shades.\u201d The carpets, naturally, were a blue-green tweed.<\/p>\n

\"The

c\/o Box Office Magazine<\/p>

The Cardinal Theatre as it appeared in the October 16, 1967 issue of Box Office Magazine.<\/p><\/div>\n

In 1977, a 625-seat auditorium was built adjacent to the Cardinal, creating an entity known as the Cardinal Theatres I & II. It remained a two-screen theater until it closed in 1990.<\/p>\n

The space was eventually filled \u2013 somewhat ironically \u2013 by Blockbuster Video. After the plaza was purchased by Kane Realty, the building was turned into what is now the Bonefish Grill. So the next time you\u2019re enjoying your Wood-grilled Cold Water Lobster Tails \u2013 served with butter for dipping \u2013 just remember; you\u2019re sitting in a space that, a long time ago, took people to a galaxy far, far away<\/a> for the very first time.<\/p>\n

\"The

James Borden \/ Raleigh Public Record<\/p>

The Bonefish Grill as it stands today<\/p><\/div>\n

Happening Now-Ish
\n<\/strong>While construction of the North Hills Tower II is far and away the biggest project to receive recent permits, no less significant were the ones issued to Frontier Building Corp, for a 6,801 square foot renovation of a space on Glenwood Avenue.<\/p>\n

\"People

Laura Fiorilli-Crews \/ Raleigh Public Record<\/p>

People line up outside Fat Daddy’s to visit one more time before it closed in March.<\/p><\/div>\n

That space \u2013 6201. The former tenant? Fat Daddy\u2019s. The replacement? Panera Bread. As reported by the Triangle Business Journal <\/a>June 30, the iconic and longstanding Fat Daddy\u2019s location on Glenwood Avenue will soon be occupied by a Panera Bread \u2013 a restaurant chain Raleigh certainly does not lack for. In fact, this location is sandwiched – pun most definitely intended \u2013\u00a0between one at the nearby Crabtree Valley Mall and another in Brier Creek.<\/p>\n

Across town in south Raleigh, permits totaling $205,905 were issued to industrial contractor Centurion Industries for \u201cOther\/Cargill Railcars.\u201d No idea what that means, but it sounds cool, and there are a set of railroad tracks adjacent to Cargill\u2019s facilities on South Blount Street. Cargill provides \u201cfood, agriculture and industrial products and services to the world.\u201d Sounds like a lot of work.<\/p>\n

\"Cargill's

James Borden \/ Raleigh Public Record<\/p>

Cargill’s Facilities on Blount Street<\/p><\/div>\n

A news release issued by the company in January, however, indicated that Cargill employed only 47 people at its Raleigh location, although plans to idle soybean processing activities there would lead to 20-25 of those employees being laid off.<\/p>\n

\"Looks

James Borden \/ Raleigh Public Record<\/p>

Renovations definitely required<\/p><\/div>\n

In better news, the Dominos on South Saunders Street, also in south Raleigh, will be getting an addition put on to its walk-in cooler and some renovations made to its building. The permits, totaling $72,000, were issued to Westroc Construction on September 4.\u00a0Hopefully the capacity of the walk-in is being expanded so Dominos can build off its “2 for $5.99” deal and start offering up even larger packages\u00a0\u2013 if, say a \u00a0“20 for $4.99” offer was introduced, it would probably be the best $100 this reporter ever spent.<\/p>\n

Once home to FUBAR, Stir Lounge & Nightclub and the Whiskey Room Music Parlor, a space at 412 West Davie Street received permits September 2 for a job titled \u201cCirca 1888.\u201d Sounds like another trendy bar will attempt to survive in the space. Hopefully this one manages to keep its doors open for a few years.<\/p>\n

\"The

James Borden \/ Raleigh Public Record<\/p>

The former site of several bars<\/p><\/div>\n


\nComing Soon
\n<\/strong>It has been far too long since a planning commission meeting, and that dry spell was finally broken on Tuesday, when the commissioners met for about two hours to recommend approval for a variety of new developments.<\/p>\n

One job, however, did not pass committee muster.<\/p>\n

The second site plan listed on the day’s agenda, 14-14, was for an office building on Glenwood Avenue north of Vick Avenue.<\/p>\n

The 3-story, 72,963 square-foot structure would be built on the site of an existing 33,884 square foot office building, which would have to be demolished. Which would be cool to watch.<\/p>\n

Commissioners noted their disappointment in the fact that the developer \u201cignored the input of planning commission and city council\u201d on the project on issues such as sidewalks and property access and noted that the plans were not an example of the \u201cprogression that the UDO is trying to achieve for the city.\u201d They also questioned the benefit of demolishing the existing structure.<\/p>\n

The vote for recommending approval received three nays, which means it will now be heard at a de novo quasi-judicial hearing by the City Council.<\/p>\n

The other site plan on the agenda was\u00a015-13, a 19-story, mixed-use building that will contain 14,350 square feet of retail and 245,895 square feet of office space. It will be located on the southeast corner of Martin and Wilmington Streets downtown. The plan itself was a resubmittal that included a 48-percent reduction in required parking spaces; the 6-level integrated parking structure will contain 315 spaces.<\/p>\n

Commissioners voted to recommend approval of the project, which will next be reviewed by City Council.<\/p>\n

Planning Commissioners also heard four rezoning cases, two of which they approved, one of which they granted an extension to and one for which the owner withdrew the request.<\/p>\n

Approved were Z-10-14 and Z-16-14. The first is for would allow a new retail and office development to be built near the Triangle Town Center Mall; behind the nearby Target, to be more specific.<\/p>\n

Z-16-14 is a 2.86 acre site in southwest Raleigh, south of NC State\u2019s campus. The proposal would allow Phoenix Property Company to develop a luxury, four- or five-story multifamily building on the site with 180 residential units. Current zoning allows only for 30 dwelling units per acre; the change would allow for a maximum of 80\/acre.<\/p>\n

Z-14-14 was a request to rezone around 43 acres of property in northeast Raleigh to allow for denser single-family residential development. Commissioners recommended granting the developers of the project a 60-day extension.<\/p>\n

The withdrawn case \u2013 for the curious \u2013\u00a0was Z-15-14, a rezoning for an already-under construction project, the luxury apartment building SkyHouse. The rezoning was applied for due to a change in the Unified Development Ordinance, which required the property to be rezoned from general business to downtown mixed use.<\/p>\n

\"The

James Borden \/ Raleigh Public Record<\/p>

The SkyHouse Raleigh, currently under construction<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week in the Development Beat, amidst progress on Tower II, we take a brief look at the history of North Hills, and learn about a new tenant for the former Fat Daddy\u2019s restaurant on Glenwood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24061,"featured_media":21944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1599,15],"tags":[1740,1742,1741,1208],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21943"}],"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=21943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}