by Leo Suarez

New Bern Avenue TOD Rezoning Summer Check-in

Embedded above (direct link here) is the video from the June 4, 2024 Raleigh City Council meeting where the latest updates and discussion took place related to the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) rezoning case for the New Bern Avenue corridor. We’ve been following this for awhile now and the rezoning case here, which sets to change the zoning for over 700 properties on or near the upcoming Bus Rapid Transit line for New Bern Avenue, is being worked on in phases. I wanted to share my notes and provide a summary of the latest.

Feel free to dive right into the video above, as it opens with a nice summary, and check out these resources on the city’s website:

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by Leo Suarez

Upcoming NC Museum of History Renovations Planned

The North Carolina Museum of History has announced plans for upcoming renovations and will slowly close throughout 2024. The main thing to takeaway is that the museum will close to the public in October but the shop will remain open through almost the end of the year. (Dec 29) Details seem light from the announcement but they’re teasing an “exciting transformation” that will take about three years.

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by Leo Suarez

Checking in on Noble Place, Condos in Glenwood South

16 townhome-style condos are being built at the corner of Boylan and North Streets. We saw the signs for this awhile ago but checking in on it recently, the new houses are well underway as you can see in the photo above. Noble Place, as it’s called now, is located in Glenwood South and will offer some very nice features, as their site clearly lists off.

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by Leo Suarez

Pic of the Week

Seems like the only one building new office space in downtown is the state government. In this economy and with Raleigh having some of the highest work-from-home percentages in the country, make of that what you will. The block just north of the Nature Research Center, shown above, has been mostly cleared. The surface parking lot has been removed and all the trees are gone as construction of the North Carolina Education Campus is in its early stages.

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