Category / New Construction

by Leo Suarez

Demolition Taking Place, Making Room For The Gramercy Apartments

Boylan Avenue, future home of The Gramercy Apartments

A project that has been a long time in the planning stages, since 2011, may soon start construction. The site for The Gramercy apartments along North Street is being cleared for the future apartment building. This involves demolition of the church at the corner of Boylan and North as well as the office building at the corner of Glenwood and North Street.

If the site plan hasn’t changed since we talked about it in 2011, the building will have 209 units and ground-floor retail all along Glenwood and some of North Street.

The resident wave just keeps crashing.

Boylan Avenue, future home of The Gramercy Apartments

Boylan Avenue, future home of The Gramercy Apartments

by Leo Suarez

Steel Rising at Holy Trinity Anglican on Peace Street

Holy Trinity Anglican Church construction on Peace Street

I’m trying to think when the last new church was built in downtown Raleigh? There may be quite a gap between that one and the one being constructed now on Peace Street next to the AIA NC building.

Holy Trinity Anglican is currently located at the house on the corner of Peace and Blount Street next to the church construction site. The building should be finished by September 2015. There’s a nice virtual tour video, embedded below, or on Vimeo. I wish other new developments would release videos like these.

Take the Tour from David Cumbie on Vimeo.

by Leo Suarez

Updated Renderings, Plans For New Convention Center Hotel

Rendering of the proposed Residence Inn on Salisbury Street

Last week, the Raleigh Appearance Commission got a look at some new renderings for a hotel planned for the parcel of land near 500 Salisbury Street next to the convention center between Lenoir and South Streets. Long-time readers might remember this site being called “Site 4” and it looks like the renderings are getting more mature now.

Some of the specs for the hotel, planned to be a Residence Inn, have slightly changed also. Comparing to a January 2014 post, we have:

  • 6,455 square feet of retail/restaurant space compared to 7,085 sq. ft. previously.
  • 9 stories instead of 11

Most is the same including the second floor and rooftop terrace.

As mentioned in past posts, this project will not add any more parking as a deal has been made between the developer and the city to lease spaces out of the Performing Arts Deck.

Rendering of the proposed Residence Inn on Salisbury Street

The project has a good human scale to it and expands downtown’s hotel offerings. I think this project is an easy one to support. While not architecturally significant, it’s more a functional addition rather than an iconic one. Looking forward to groundbreaking.