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Pretty much the title. Do you all see Raleigh ever having a skyline similar to Charlotte or is business here too spread out across Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill to ever require needing tall buildings like that?
Raleigh isn't obsessed with becoming a big city. In fact, the region's mindset seems exactly opposite of Charlotte. Perhaps if Raleigh gets a couple of attractive towers people will start taking an interest.
RTP is the Catch-22 for Raleigh. It brings business but leaves DTR in a disorganized and underdeveloped mess and leaves the all the workers into isolated, dead campus spread out over massive patches of land. DTR needs more density and people if people in the Triangle want to have a place they can go to party. Right now there's a few decent places but a lot of bars and clubs go out of business all the time in DTR because everyone is living in suburbia and heading to McBar's 'cause it's closer.
Raleigh doesn't need tall building but it would help, look at DC. It's a stuffy business and government city but the clubs and partying are top-notch because there's people and easy access to the city thanks to the metro. Plus it would **** off all the NIMBY's and there's nothing I like best than hearing them complain and not get there way. It's like a fine wine.
Raleigh isn't obsessed with becoming a big city. In fact, the region's mindset seems exactly opposite of Charlotte. Perhaps if Raleigh gets a couple of attractive towers people will start taking an interest.
Enough people notice it already.
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The simple answer is No. Not ever. Never. The center of Charlotte is an anomaly driven by three factors: NCNB/NationsBank/Bank of America, First Union, and Wachovia. Exactly how Charlotte managed to be the second largest banking center in the nation -- to the constant irritation of Chicago, L.A., San Francisco, and Atlanta -- may never be documented entirely. But it won't happen again, and it certainly won't happen in Raleigh.
As for RTP, the cold hard reality is that the large businesses there -- which have 5x the headcount of all the private sector jobs in DTR combined -- and the 90% of their employees who live in Orange, Durham, Wake outside Raleigh, and Raleigh OTB could not care less about DTR. The DTR zealots keep thinking that RTP is dead. Far from it.
Pretty much the title. Do you all see Raleigh ever having a skyline similar to Charlotte or is business here too spread out across Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill to ever require needing tall buildings like that?
It already does. It's about the same size as Charlotte was, when I moved there in 1977.
I think most of the reasons why it won't be the same have already been covered. IMO, the biggest reason is that Charlotte has so many corporate HQ's. Two of the Nation's four largest banks are HQ'd there, as is one of (if not "the") largest power/electric company in the country, at this time.
Also, in addition to RTP, Raleigh is part of a triangle. That is to say that to some extent, Chapel Hill, and to a larger extent, Durham is always pulling a little bit. It's sort of like the moon and the tide. It isn't the #1 factor, but it's enough to pull against the gravity that is Raleigh. (Wow, that was deep. I need coffee)
Pizza is really not the problem there. It's all the chain restaurants in Cary.
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Will Raleigh Ever Have a Skyline Like Charlotte?
