Well there goes the Bath Building. After a few months of work, the demolition of the State Government’s old space on Wilmington Street has been reduced to rubble. Now we’ll just watch it get picked up and scooped away. From what I’ve heard, the land will sit empty and hopefully just be a well-manicured lawn rather than surface parking.
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How could the pic of this week NOT be about the snow? We went over 1,000 days without any of the white stuff and now we get multiple drifts of nature’s confetti this season. Honestly, the snow today was a little sleety and not the nice powdery stuff. Still, there’s a positive side.
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The new Hilton hotel building, with both a Tempo and Homewood Suites branded hotel, certainly looks open, no? As a local, I don’t consider it open until the rooftop restaurant, Urban Oak, is open for business and as of this writing, their website says that’ll be in early February.
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The apartments at The Maeve look almost ready and will absolutely be ready for their advertised move in timeframe of Spring 2025. It’s all interior work at the moment as the apartments get ready for new downtown residents.
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We are so, so close to the opening of one of downtown’s newest hotels. In a way, it’ll be two hotels as we’re getting two brands under one roof in the Homewood Suites and Tempo both by Hilton. The lobby looks real good and you can already make a reservation.
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The upcoming apartments at The Weld are really showing their presence on the southern side of downtown Raleigh, shown in the photo above. We may be witnessing the creation of an entirely new district with this project and nearby activity.
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The apartments over at The Alexan are starting to get some clothes on. The brick exterior is starting to be put in place at, what will be, Glenwood South’s newest apartment building. The approximately 180 homes here will keep adding to what is likely the densest residential area in the city.
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The old North Carolina Administration building is currently being demolished over on Jones Street. It’s certainly not an implosion kind of thing but a slow “chipping away at it” process as it’s easily been over a week, maybe two, and they are only about halfway through. It’ll certainly open things up a bit on Jones once finished.
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