Municipography is a summary of current issues going through the Raleigh City Council and other municipal departments in the city. The point is to try to deliver any video, photos, and text associated with the discussions happening at City Hall or elsewhere. Since this is a downtown Raleigh blog, the focus is on the center of the city.
During this week’s city council meeting, the zoning request for the renovated church building at 501 South Person Street was discussed again. Also, a decision was made on how to sell the property at 301 Hillsborough Street.
501 South Person
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This has been in the works for awhile. For a refresher jump to an older post about this.
After numerous conditions were included, it seems that both the neighborhood and the owner of the future restaurant came to an agreement. The rezoning was approved.
For more on this, I recommend jumping to “Prince Hall Rezoning Case Receives Council Approval” on the Raleigh Public Record.
301 Hillsborough Street
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The discussion here was around how to sell the city-owned land at 301 Hillsborough Street.
There were some great points put out by Councilor Stephenson around our downtown plan and how the city should use the land to get some of the planned suggestions. (like a grocery store) However, the requests were very last-minute and most of council moved to approve the process of opening up the land for auction. In this scenario, there is no way to sell the land to a developer that presents certain types of plans.
It’s a money making endeavor only from what it sounds like. The money could then be used elsewhere. The current offer is for $3.1 million.
Similar Posts:
- Municipography, 300 Block of Hillsborough Street | May 11, 2015
- Renovation Near Complete at 501 South Person Street, New Restaurant Planned | June 10, 2015
- A Clean Slate on Hillsborough Street | January 6, 2013
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I saw that the 301 Hillsborough auction price is now double its tax-assessed value. The current leader is Stiles Corporation from Florida. This is some of the projects they have built. Not bad!
http://www.stiles.com/component/igallery/stiles-portfolio/office-36
Not very impressed with Stiles. Projects seem pretty lame and many are very “suburban”.
Hoping one of the more local groups can top their offer and ultimately deliver a better product.
Well the suburban projects look suburban. The tall downtown buildings do not. Why would they build a one story Office Depot on the 301 Hillsborough lot?