Two of my favorite wikipedia articles are relevant here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spite_fence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spite_house

3/15/2013 9:17:37 AM

Ashley Christensen up for James Beard again. Only NC chef nominated. http://eater.com/archives/2013/03/18/here-are-the-2013-james-beard-awards-finalists.php

Best Chef Southeast
· Ashley Christensen
· Edward Lee
· Joseph Lenn
· Steven Satterfield
· Tandy Wilson

I'd rather go to Bojangles etc etc

3/18/2013 2:40:43 PM

I'll be very surprised if she wins, but it's pretty awesome.

EDIT: Maybe not very surprised.

[Edited on March 18, 2013 at 4:13 PM. Reason : f]

3/18/2013 4:13:09 PM

http://www.927westmorgan.com/

Some interesting debate on a few message boards about the pricing of these units. The market will tell over time, but $1150.00 for a 1 bedroom and $1450 for the cheapest 2 bedroom is on the high side for raleigh. These places are all stainless, with salt water plunge pools, and other high end amenities. Will be interesting to see how fast it fills up and with what sort of demographics.

On a side note, this is great for my townhouse's renal potential.

3/19/2013 12:48:11 PM

That's priced pretty competitively for a new apartment downtown, its a lot less than Hue and they are doing fine. Hue starts at $1,140 for a studio (and a 1 bedroom with a real bedroom and a view is $1,900). Granted its not as close to downtown as Hue, but its also less expensive. Their pricing looks right for Raleigh (which is too high)

Also, f they make the price too low it will fill up with students and turn into a shit hole. Its a little high for their not being other development yet there, and having a homeless center and boarding houses very close by, but I think its still priced right.

[Edited on March 19, 2013 at 1:08 PM. Reason : also]

3/19/2013 1:05:31 PM

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"Their pricing looks right for Raleigh (which is too high)."

Too high for what? People are paying it.

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"Also, f they make the price too low it will fill up with students and turn into a shit hole."

Indeed. With this location and the prices, I'd expect most residents to be young professionals. Looks like there's also a minimum age of 22.

[Edited on March 19, 2013 at 1:25 PM. Reason : ]

3/19/2013 1:19:12 PM

^^a one bedroom at the Hue costs $1,900?

That seems outrageous. That could cover a mortgage on a $400k house at the going rates.

[Edited on March 19, 2013 at 2:08 PM. Reason : ^^]

3/19/2013 2:08:15 PM

That is pretty outrageous. One of my friends pays $1,500 for a pretty nice 1BR in a brownstone in Brooklyn.

3/19/2013 2:09:43 PM

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

3/19/2013 3:50:48 PM

^^^^ too high compared to what we would pay if we didn't have a shortage and consumers were able to buy. Of course ita not too high in the sense that people won't pay it, that's obviously not what I meant.

the age requirement alone isn't enough, they have to price out students

3/19/2013 4:15:48 PM

High prices are just going to increase supply. There's already like 10 projects underway right now in the 2 miles west of downtown. Keeping up with demand is basically impossible at the rate people are moving to the area. They can't redevelop every part of the city at the same time.

3/19/2013 4:32:18 PM

Correct me if I'm wrong but it's the rental market that can't keep up downtown, not the condo market.

3/19/2013 4:45:27 PM

Correct

3/19/2013 4:53:13 PM

Nice.
http://downtownraleighfoodtruckrodeo.com/

3/21/2013 6:57:35 PM

unnecessary use of quotation marks like whoa

3/21/2013 8:49:27 PM

Quote :

"4 Sunday's"

3/21/2013 9:13:49 PM

I am going to crush on some Only Burger.

3/21/2013 10:54:00 PM

The $5 to get in an hour early sounds awful appealing! Last time I went to a rodeo on Fayetteville St. I waited 45 minutes for one truck, and left.

3/22/2013 10:11:34 AM

>go to a food truck rodeo with 35 trucks
>wait 45 minutes in line for food at a truck
>only eat from one truck


no thanks

3/22/2013 12:41:11 PM

^yeah, it sucked.

That was sort of the crux of my debate with the gentleman that was going to boner town over Durham's "rodeo".....when you put them all in one place it creates a frenzy, crowds, and lines. Again, I will likely attend and support one of these raleigh rodeo's, but I will pay the $5 for the early pass!

3/22/2013 1:30:07 PM

Dix debate going on right now http://www.wral.com/news/state/nccapitol/video/12269787/#/vid12269787

3/26/2013 2:56:41 PM

^^ look man, that Durham rodeo was anything but a frenzy. it was nicely spaced out and right next to Durhams central park, giving people more than enough room to hang out and eat and drink, something that Raleigh has yet to do

that was my point the entire time, something you might have realized had you been there

3/26/2013 3:00:22 PM

if you had a bad experience at one of these rodeos:

1) you're doing it wrong
2) feel free to stay away in the future

3/26/2013 3:01:50 PM

Dix amendment passes Senate, goes to House...

3/26/2013 3:24:24 PM

^^^, and ^^

Come to one of these Raleigh versions on any of the 4 dates, and unless you pay the $5 to get in early, you will see the shitshow I am talking about.

3/26/2013 3:27:59 PM

I have, and that's exactly why I applauded Durhams

what's so difficult about that?

3/26/2013 3:29:37 PM

I am not sure we are disagreeing here

I guess I don't really like rodeo's and you aren't really going to change my opinion of that. I usually only want 1 or two types of food, so the small gatherings work for me. I am proud of durham, and happy you enjoyed your food truck rodeo there, but with the size of raleigh, and the way they have done them in the past, they are not enjoyable.

3/26/2013 3:37:48 PM

There's just not open space on Fayetteville for these things to work. If they set it up around Moore Square it would probably be better but the 4th of July party downtown was so overcrowded it was ridiculous.

3/26/2013 4:06:07 PM

^^ you originally got pissy about me praising something Durham did, and then turned your pissiness towards food truck rodeos

oh well

3/26/2013 4:34:51 PM

not enough open space on Fayetteville St. If they plan to line them up from the Capital to City Plaza, that's more than plenty.

3/26/2013 11:28:43 PM

http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2013/03/28/in-pictures-new-raleigh.html

Downtown grocery store.

3/29/2013 7:57:36 AM

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"Dix amendment passes Senate, goes to House... "

Gag

3/29/2013 9:49:30 AM

I, for one, am looking forward to this

http://www.wral.com/raleigh-plans-park-for-capital-boulevard-corridor-near-downtown/12292645/

[Edited on April 2, 2013 at 4:07 PM. Reason : ^^^and i'm also really excited about that]

4/2/2013 4:05:55 PM

lol at the comments

4/2/2013 4:06:54 PM

GOLO gets so angry about everything

4/2/2013 4:43:38 PM

Looks like AC's new coffee shop in the old Wilmoore space will be called Joule Coffee

@JouleCoffee on twitter (no tweets yet)

Sounds like they will have some of Poole's diner brunch options available @ Joule

4/5/2013 4:30:16 PM

Raleigh's downtown museum gets new look, approach

http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/04/09/2814035/raleighs-downtown-shrine-gets.html

4/10/2013 11:32:19 AM

^^ just around the corner from raleigh times/morning times. I hope its good, I've never been impressed with the quality or service at morning times.

4/10/2013 11:40:47 AM

Benelux Cafe is where it's at

4/10/2013 11:51:28 AM

Is Trophy Brewing serving food yet? I'd like to check it out next time I'm in Raleigh

4/10/2013 12:24:20 PM

There was no food at Trophy when I went there last week.

4/10/2013 12:29:31 PM

are the homeless people around Trophy as bad as the people on SeeClickFix make them out to be? almost daily people complain about homeless people around Trophy or Cameron Court.

4/10/2013 12:41:01 PM

I don't know but they definitely take a lot of pictures and it sure looks like supporting evidence. Back when that was Burger Hut there was a group of guys that would harass you for money too, but they might be more aggressive now with the traffic to Trophy. If it's this bad I would certainly hesitate to go there.

Can't tell if SeeClickFix is full of trolls or not. Every thread about "loiterers" has comments about making it illegal to loiter without a valid residential address, and comments about banning homelessness within Raleigh city limits.

4/10/2013 12:58:10 PM

^
I guess that would essentially mean kicking them out of gentrified areas to the south and east?

4/10/2013 1:04:09 PM

I didn't see any homeless the one time I went to Trophy. Much more likely to see them on Glenwood South.

4/10/2013 1:08:00 PM

Quote :

"are the homeless people around Trophy as bad as the people on SeeClickFix make them out to be? almost daily people complain about homeless people around Trophy or Cameron Court."

I lived in Cameron Court for 2 years and never had any problems.

4/10/2013 1:16:36 PM

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"...I've never been impressed with the quality or service at morning times."

Did you spit on a barista or something? I think Morning Times is awesome.

4/10/2013 2:18:00 PM

I've been to Trophy 5 times in the past month or so and have seen zero homeless people

I'm also not afraid of homeless people

4/10/2013 7:07:30 PM

there is a shelter a block away, so i'm surprised you've never seen any homeless people there. just driving down Morgan I see homeless people.

4/10/2013 7:30:24 PM

Small batch craft malt liquor

4/10/2013 8:08:40 PM