South Street may be closed but it’s still there as crews work to move dirt around the future site of the new Red Hat Amphitheater. There’s a nice new mountain on the north side of “South Street” and a retaining wall alongside the train tracks on the south side. It’s not too exciting to look at but I’ll keep checking in on the amphitheater construction.
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New articulated buses are in circulation on the GoRaleigh bus system. You can see, or ride one yourself, on the number 1 Capital Boulevard route. This route has seen a steady increase in ridership over the past few years that in addition to the larger buses, the route is also running at 10-minute frequencies. It’s great to see this increase in demand be met with higher capacity service!
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The city’s new City Hall is getting some layers. The precast outer pieces are being put in place and glass windows are going in too. It looks like, in this photo, that crews are up to the 13th floor. Just a few more to go I think until this one tops out. Could it happen before the end of the year? We’ll see.
Make sure to follow the progress on the city’s website and then join the banter on The Community.
Have you seen the new lights on Fayetteville Street? All the trees, 88 of them, have been wrapped with white lights and they are lit each night, from Lenoir to Morgan Street. It’s a nice touch, adding some vibrancy to a kind of dull and gray streetscape. There’s more improvements on the way for the street which should elevate the area in order to really cement it as a key place to be when in downtown.
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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