Seaboard Station

[nicholas]

Quick update:

[nicholas]

Looks like another floor has been poured in the past month or so.

 

[KJHburg]

drive by photos today.  first  last photo is the NC AIA building I think. 

Edited December 9, 2021 by KJHburg

[nicholas]

While no one was watching for the past 7 months, this first building has neared completion.

[KJHburg]

Looks like the old Seaboard train station will be saved.

https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2022/07/20/raleighs-seaboard-train-station-to-be-saved-in-ne.html

""The Seaboard Station building, which now houses Logan’s Garden Shop, was sold to Turnbridge Equities of New York in December for $8.5 million. Turnbridge initially planned to demolish the station, which is cherished by many but is not an official landmark building. But Turnbridge continued to tinker with plans after public pushback. Jason Davis, the managing director of the project for Turnbridge Equities, said Wednesday the current plan is to move the station to the north part of the property to make way for a pair of towers. The new renderings for the project on the Seaboard Station site show a pair of towers. Phase 1 of the plan would be a 16-story building roughly where the station is currently located. Phase 2 would include a 20-story tower. The two towers would be wrapped by development and thus cover a large parking deck from public view. ""

[Jones_]

On 7/20/2022 at 7:33 PM, KJHburg said:

Looks like the old Seaboard train station will be saved.

https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2022/07/20/raleighs-seaboard-train-station-to-be-saved-in-ne.html

""The Seaboard Station building, which now houses Logan’s Garden Shop, was sold to Turnbridge Equities of New York in December for $8.5 million. Turnbridge initially planned to demolish the station, which is cherished by many but is not an official landmark building. But Turnbridge continued to tinker with plans after public pushback. Jason Davis, the managing director of the project for Turnbridge Equities, said Wednesday the current plan is to move the station to the north part of the property to make way for a pair of towers. The new renderings for the project on the Seaboard Station site show a pair of towers. Phase 1 of the plan would be a 16-story building roughly where the station is currently located. Phase 2 would include a 20-story tower. The two towers would be wrapped by development and thus cover a large parking deck from public view. ""

I wonder if that parking deck will be the front and center view for much of the Cotton Mill condo owners. A pedestrian bridge for them is way overdue to Seaboard. 

[DPK]

14 hours ago, Jones_ said:

I wonder if that parking deck will be the front and center view for much of the Cotton Mill condo owners. A pedestrian bridge for them is way overdue to Seaboard. 

When I used to live there about a decade ago, there was a locked gate in the wood fence along the Cotton Mill property bordering the railroad.  Owners could access Seaboard via that gate with their keys and then walk across the tracks.

[KJHburg]

from the architect of the 2nd  and taller phases!

https://www.jdavisarchitects.com/projects/seaboard-station

[KJHburg]

went by all of this today as I was in the neighborhood at nearby doughnut shop.

[KJHburg]

Seaboard Station area apartments.  Today. 

[KJHburg]

Here is a drive by on the newest apartment building at Seaboard Station.

 

[dmccall]

I went 2d ago and it has to be the messiest construction projects I remember in Raleigh. Clancy & Theys and the City of Raleigh need to help out the businesses have been thriving back in there for years during all this.

[KJHburg]

Next apartment building at the Seaboard Station development getting ready to open. 

""Joining Hoffman and Associates’ Seaboard Station development is The Point, a 6-story boutique apartment building with ground-floor retail. The Point will be connected to a Hyatt House (NYSE: H) hotel, also part of the development, via a courtyard and pool. The apartment building will have 75 units set to welcome residents this spring.

Residents of The Point will have their own amenities along with access to the hotel amenities, including the pool. John Florian, executive vice president of development for Hoffman and Associates, said the company wanted to provide amenities that created a hotel and resort-style atmosphere.   

The Point cost $34 million and is funded via financial partners and construction financing led by United Bank.

The units will be a mix of studio, one and two bedrooms. Preleasing for the units will start soon but the developer is still working on setting the rental rates. Florian said that since the units are boutique and are more like condominiums, the rates will be slightly higher than the units at The Signal, the first apartment complex to open at Seaboard Station.""

New Downtown Raleigh apartments, hotel linked by pool - Triangle Business Journal (bizjournals.com)

here is the map of this place Seaboard-Station-Directory.pdf (seaboardstation.com)

Edited February 16 by KJHburg

[Jones_]

Not sure how i feel about all the retail being on the narrow alley for Signal and the next building to the west. In my head I was expecting storefronts to face Peace College. Another inward facing development like Smoky Hollow. Why is it so scary to create active streetscapes and keep doing this self contained stuff even in downtown? Giant let down.