Archive for 2007
Blogging Abroad: Miami
Posting for RalCon will continue next week but I wanted to share this skyline picture I just took today. I’m in Miami for the holidays visiting family. With the picture, I wanted to throw out a discussion question. Could Raleigh ever contain a skyline of this magnitude and if so, when will this happen? Do [...]
Bloomsbury Throws Up A Brick
Here is a quick construction update on the first of two buildings at Bloomsbury Estates. The brick looks very nice and I think this condo building will stand apart from the rest of the ones going up downtown.
Sidetrack Brewpub is also coming along but at a snail’s pace. The bar is just now taking [...]
EnviroCon: Parking Pay Stations
GreenCon is a new label that I want to introduce highlighting any ‘green’ efforts going on around downtown. The latest one that I stumbled upon were the new parking meters on the 200 block of West Hargett St. Here is some background information about these meters. We could see more of these pay stations instead [...]
Winter Restaurant Wave
In case you have not noticed, we are in the middle of another wave of restaurant openings. The convention center may be the reason for fueling the increase of downtown food choices over the last few years. Here is a list of recent openings; some are talked about in the new downtown news section added [...]
Represent DT Raleigh on Wikimapia
I came across a new website that can really kill some time at work is pretty fun and interesting. WikiMapia has a user generated google map that you can browse and click on locations all over the world. Users can create polygons around buildings and other objects on the map and add information and pictures [...]
Downtown Shopping? Where is it?
A recent N&O article talked about shops and retail as becoming more of a priority downtown.
Climbing on the agenda: shopping. Economic developers are canvassing planners, developers, lenders and business owners to identify strategies to guide retail growth as a slew of homes and offices prepare to open.
There are two types of shopping that downtown needs [...]
The State of Glenwood South
The weather was great this weekend so I took the time to go through Glenwood South and check up on all the projects. You get a different view of things during the day compared to at night when I usually have a few pints in me. This list should cover all the highlights and take [...]
EnviroCon: Heilig-Levine and LEED Cert.
Downtown construction continues and news is rather slow so here’s a little something for you to ponder over. I was reading through some of my usual blogs that I check each day and became inspired to do some research. I recommend the Inhabit blog to anyone that is interested in architecture, technology, and how it [...]
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