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"The $130 million project, which calls for two parking decks, a five-star hotel and a cultural center to be built on-site, would turn the Prime Outlets mall near the airport into one of the most colorful and distinct structures in the state. "You're going to know you're in Chinatown," said Mark Herman, CEO of Panda Properties Sino, the Durham company that has put the property under contract. "It's definitely taking lemons and turning them into lemonade." A six-minute video promoting the project shows pieces of the mall morphing into Chinatown, complete with sloping roofs and upturned eaves. There's even talk of turning the mall's 90-foot central tower into a Chinese pagoda."

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/02/05/1831611/a-new-neighbor-for-rdu-chinatown.html#storylink=cpy

Traffic's going to blow over there when this gets completed

2/5/2012 3:53:32 PM

better than what is there now

2/5/2012 3:54:40 PM

^ You mean better than nothing? But seriously, that mall is sad sad sad. They might as well use it for giant zombie paintball sessions now considering there's only like three stores in there.

2/5/2012 3:57:25 PM

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"complete with sloping roofs"

racist

2/5/2012 3:58:07 PM

^LOL

2/5/2012 4:51:17 PM

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"Mark Herman"

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"Panda Properties Sino"

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"racist"

2/5/2012 4:51:38 PM

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"Traffic's going to blow over there when this gets completed "

Lots of DWA convictions

2/5/2012 5:04:07 PM

tacoru gets his wish after all

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

2/5/2012 5:05:42 PM

I really hope they call it 'Little Tokyo'.

2/5/2012 5:15:01 PM

Funny I always thought Chinatown was created by the many years of culture brought to the region by Chinese residents.

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"sloping roofs and upturned eaves"

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"a Chinese pagoda"

Oh nevermind.

2/5/2012 7:19:42 PM

in most larger cities that population ^ is tapering off because a lot of them are moving back to China for better opportunities. Real actual Chinatown is down to about 2 blocks here in DC, 3 or 4 if you count the chains that use chinese lettering in some aesthetic appeal to the neighborhood's roots.

what a retarded facade.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/12/the-end-of-chinatown/8732/

have fun with your manufactured, kitschy development.

2/5/2012 7:43:09 PM

^^ ie years of segregation that forced them to live in concentrated areas. There's a reason that in cities where Chinese immigrated in large numbers after the 60s their influence is more spread out.

2/5/2012 8:02:55 PM

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"I really hope they call it 'Little Tokyo'."

Why?

2/5/2012 8:53:37 PM

Little Korea! Korea ROKs!

[Edited on February 5, 2012 at 9:23 PM. Reason : *]

2/5/2012 9:22:03 PM

MUNG VILLAGE

2/5/2012 9:38:41 PM

this makes no sense

at all

2/5/2012 10:24:00 PM

except rdu/rtp is full of asians. yeah doesn't make sense at all except that. seth i hope you don't hate me after that...

2/5/2012 10:25:00 PM

well.. can they make them all live in that neighborhood?

2/5/2012 10:34:33 PM

yay more dim sum places

2/5/2012 10:34:58 PM

you can't just put a new roof on that dump and dub it Chinatown

2/5/2012 10:37:14 PM

Seth LeDong

2/5/2012 10:37:38 PM

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"you can't just put a new roof on that dump and dub it Chinatown"

Why not? That's what actual China is like

2/5/2012 10:41:46 PM

http://www.chinesegenerator.net

2/5/2012 10:42:01 PM

Bye, Van Heusen store

2/5/2012 10:55:33 PM

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"Why?"

It was funny in a South Park episode when they named the Asian area outside the City Wok, Little Tokyo. The Chinese owner flipped out.

2/5/2012 10:59:29 PM

this is the stupidest thing i've ever heard

2/5/2012 11:09:22 PM

this is where all the spies will be

2/5/2012 11:10:30 PM

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"you can't just put a new roof on that dump and dub it Chinatown"

if you call it china town you can

2/5/2012 11:11:08 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_98fDQM0sAo&feature=related

plz to embed

2/5/2012 11:13:37 PM

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"Xie said Chinatowns in cities such as New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.,"

Morrisville doesn't seem to fit with big cities like that, unless you think of the of the triangle as whole. I'm not opposed to it, that outlet mall seriously needs some kind of economic upturn to avoid dying. Looking at wikipedia, the demographic breakdown for Morrisville is 27.2% Asian, versus 4.3% for Raleigh and 3.64% for Durham.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Triangle_(North_Carolina)

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"A 2009 Census Estimate put the population at 1,742,816. The Raleigh-Durham television market includes a broader 23-county area which includes Fayetteville, and has a population of 2,726,000 persons"

2/5/2012 11:40:19 PM

those are all Indians though

2/5/2012 11:56:41 PM

^

2/6/2012 12:33:04 AM

if there were some good restaurants I would go

dim sum place
noodle shop
maybe a duck place

2/6/2012 2:17:51 AM

I've been to that hooters and cracker barrel multiple times and I never knew that was there

2/6/2012 2:28:58 AM

She's my sister AND my daughter!

2/6/2012 8:49:01 AM

You did your Mom?

2/6/2012 8:54:35 AM

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"Morrisville doesn't seem to fit with big cities like that, unless you think of the of the triangle as whole. I'm not opposed to it, that outlet mall seriously needs some kind of economic upturn to avoid dying. Looking at wikipedia, the demographic breakdown for Morrisville is 27.2% Asian, versus 4.3% for Raleigh and 3.64% for Durham."

The Chinatown in DC is only like two blocks these days. And somethings tells me like other Chinatowns in the country, this one will not only be Chinese businesses. The Triangle also has a crapload of Koreans, Vietnamese, Japanese, Indonesians, etc. Really I imagine this place being a lot like the "Chinatown" at Eden Center: http://edencenter.com/category.php?cid=3

2/6/2012 9:33:21 AM

i hope it's a bit better than the eden center. that looked kinda cheesy. DC's chinatown is a disgrace btw.. there's nothing authentic about it. you see Starbucks, Fuddruckers, and CVS... all the little asian shops and restaurants were muscled out by corporate america. word is they can't find tenants

2/15/2012 2:48:36 PM

i believe the proper terminology is "chinkland"

2/15/2012 2:51:24 PM

Partaaaaay next weekend!

2/15/2012 2:59:07 PM

I'm not sure you can really refer to DC's Chinatown as a disgrace when it has existed as a facade and referential designation for at least the last decade or two. The facades on the restaurants with the Chinese lettering and the arch over H St NW is not an attempt to look "authentic" so much as it is a nod to the history of the neighborhood.

You can still find pretty dope Chinese restaurants on 7th St NW on the backside of gallery place and a lot of them have been there since back when it WAS legitimately "Chinatown" in DC.

2/15/2012 3:02:09 PM

On a sad note, the China Town buffet in Cary is no more.

2/15/2012 3:19:49 PM

Big Trouble in Little Morrisville?

2/15/2012 3:50:16 PM

^^son of a bitch! I loved that place

2/15/2012 3:59:11 PM

This will be successful if and only if they erect a statue of Jeremy Lin at City Center.

2/15/2012 4:05:21 PM

I work off Airport Blvd so this would be super close by.

2/15/2012 4:12:09 PM

nearby animal shelters won't be overcrowded anymore

[Edited on February 15, 2012 at 4:24 PM. Reason : think about it]

2/15/2012 4:20:10 PM

I'd like to open a strip mall named Taiwantown across the street and make faces at them.

2/15/2012 4:21:43 PM

I'd like to open an apple store nearby just as, you know, a reminder.

2/15/2012 4:31:29 PM

set em up

2/15/2012 6:18:17 PM