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[orulz]

Although this is a part of the Edison development, I think this is big enough to merit its own thread.

Novare Group is collaborating with Sandreuter to bring a 24 story, 320 unit apartment tower on the NE corner of the Edison block, the corner of Blount and Martin.

It's a little hard to make sense of it but some of the renderings seem to show a 13-14 story office tower on the opposite (NW) corner as well.

Between the apartment building and the apparently planned office tower is a plaza of some sort, though I'm not sure what it's for since it doesn't really seem to connect to anything.

[Jones133]

Link?

[orulz]

Here is the link to the site plan and renderings.

I like to watch this page to see new developments that have been submitted to the city. That's where I read about this.

[49er]

Seems to be comparable to the Catalyst tower they built in Charlotte before the market tanked...in terms of materials and quality. Looks like a nice addition for Raleigh!

[orulz]

I have been wondering for years when Novare was finally going to turn up in Raleigh. They seem to be active all over the southeast.

[orulz]

Here is the Martin Street elevation:

[Jones133]

Looks like the other building is a spot on replica of PE II (future Red Hat). The apartments are needed as are high quality new buildings downtown to counter act some of the Marriott and 222 Glenwood type stuff. However I maintain my opposition to tearing down the buildings at the corner of Martin/Wilmington citing the success of Wilmington and Hargetts old stuff to date.  But I realize this thread is about  the apartment building....The 'connector' I think is just the parking deck in the middle of the block...

[Rufus]

So how credible is this proposal because here is the exact same development in Atlanta:

http://www.bizjourna...h-rise-now.html

[Jones133]

^wow I don't think I have seen exact copies of buildings in  different cities other than the round Holiday Inns....though I imagine it does happen. Like mobile homes, I imagine this approach at least makes the projects more likely to be viable

[Green_man]

320 total units (234 1 br, 136 2 br, and 54 3 br) for total number of bedrooms of 424.  Assuming 1 person per bedroom and combining with the other Edison apartments, that would be 727 people living in this one block!  Not bad!

I agree with Jones, I'd like to see the buildings on Wilmington remain.  There will be a gap of about 90 feet between the public art plaza of the apartment building and the back of the Wilmington St building property lines - what about confining any sort of new development for the remaining portion of the block there?  Depth of the lot would be about 140 feet (about the footprint of One Bank of America Plaza).

[eastsider]

Rufus, on 02 May 2012 - 06:19 PM, said:

So how credible is this proposal because here is the exact same development in Atlanta:

http://www.bizjourna...h-rise-now.html

This same Skyhouse project has been proposed in Austin and I believe Orlando as well.