by Leo Suarez

Pic of the Week

Opening this month is downtown’s newest apartment tower, Maeve Raleigh. It’s been fun watching this one go up and I prefer these towers where the parking deck is detached. Optimistically, (hopelessly?) I feel like the deck can be repurposed one day or even built on top of but that’ll probably be decades if that ever happens. Either way, we should be welcoming new residents and you want to be friendly to these residents in hopes they invite you over. Maeve has some high-end amenities, according to their website.

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by Leo Suarez

The Ever Expanding Transit Tech Options in Raleigh

Have you ridden any GoRaleigh buses lately? It’s been about six months or so since fares have returned and at the same time, the number of ways to plan your trips and pay for your fare have increased. All those options are meant to help you, not confuse you, and so with lots of options out there, I wanted to take a second and get a list going of all the tech available for connoisseurs to get around Raleigh stress-free and fully informed.

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by Leo Suarez

Taking a Peek at the New Red Hat Amphitheater

During the February 6, 2025 Design Review Commission meeting, there was a presentation (YouTube link here) related to the plans for the upcoming Red Hat Amphitheater, which should start construction this year. The video really speaks for itself and it’s a highly recommended watch. While the images aren’t final by any means, they do a great job of giving you a sense of what’s being built along Lenoir Street, more specifically to the south of the current amphitheater site as it sits today.

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by Leo Suarez

Checking in on South Saunders Street

I’m sure someone is working on a name to kind of “districtify” the area of South Saunders street and Lake Wheeler Road where Rockway Raleigh and The Weld are currently being built but for now, I’ll just refer to everything around here as Saunders Street. Until that’s more socially adopted, we should see the opening of new digs and new eats here in 2025.

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by Leo Suarez

18 Years of RalConigraphy – The Study, and Love, of Downtown Raleigh

Today, let’s raise one up for the blog as we’ve made it 18 years since this thing has started. I am pretty sure there are some of you that have been with me since the beginning so for those folks, I thank you for sticking around. For the newcomers, as always, welcome and I hope you’ll find the content here somewhat interesting. The sister site, the DTRaleigh Community, is always interesting and I hope you’ll consider joining the conversation there as well.

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