Upcoming redevelopment of aging warehouse space into a mix-use development: a downtown transit center, wrapped with retail and topped with apartments and hotel rooms.
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For the bus facility, which will be used primarily by GoRaleigh and GoTriangle, current plans call for:
- Bus platforms in an off-street transit facility.
- New on-street improvements for West Street.
- New on-street improvements to accommodate future bus rapid transit service on West Street.
- Pedestrian and bicycle enhancements.
- A new pedestrian bridge connecting RUS Bus to Raleigh Union Station.
For the private development, current plans call for:
- 500,000 square feet total across two high-rise buildings
- 350 apartment units including 10% affordable units for households at 80% AMI
- 200 hotel rooms
- 18,000 square feet of retail
- 550 parking spaces
Faqs link
http://rusbusnc.com/faqs/
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So we’ve got
Train Station connection
Bus rapid transit Platforms
Street improvements for future bus rapid transit and pedestrian + biking.
Pedestrian Bridge connecting the train and bus stations
All of this having ground floor retail nearby with hotel rooms and apartments above. Pretty amazing honestly.
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Yeah, you can’t really ask for more than that! Raleigh has some catching up to do in terms of urbanizing, but the whole Triangle metro area is growing fast and city leaders (here as well as in Durham) seem to be taking it seriously.
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Awesome.
https://trianglefoodblog.com/?p=3270
- And we have the official opening date for Union Station Deli & Catering from Rocky Top Catering. Located inside the iconic Raleigh Union Station at 510 W Martin Street in downtown Raleigh. They will swing open their doors on Thursday, August 29th. Touted as a true New York-style deli, they will be serving up breakfast bagels, deli sandwiches, and hot pressed sammies – with toppings like house-smoked pastrami, corned beef and chicken cutlets — as well as black-and-white cookies. Look for weekday service (6 a.m. until 3 p.m.) initially, with weekend service to start in January. The concept will be managed by Sean Degnan, known for his outstanding restaurant portfolio including bu•ku, so•ca and kō•än. Follow along on Instagram here.
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It would be convenient if Greyhound buses let out here too, but I don’t think anyone here has been expecting or even heard about them being part of the bus station in many years. I think IndyWeek is trying to manufacture some outrage, which seems to be how all engagement-metric-driven news works nowadays, unfortunately.
If this part is inaccurate you should get in touch with Mitch and ask him why he is spinning lies.
Mitchell Silver was Raleigh’s planning director in the early 2010s and oversaw some of the early planning of Union Station.
”When it was planned, we wanted it to be a regional hub,” Silver says. “We were in conversation with Greyhound, there were discussions about them relocating. At that time, it was conceived as the primary transit hub for the city with as many modes as possible.”
Mitch Silver was a force for good for this area, so I trust what he says; they were “in conversation” 10 years ago, but (and I could be wrong here) AFAIK there were never any actual agreements in place. I guess I more take issue with INDY implying that Greyhound has been intentionally excluded to keep poor people out of downtown without much to back it up.
“A nexus of poor people, taxi drivers and bus travelers … doesn’t quite fit into Raleigh’s new creative class vision for itself,” INDY wrote at the time.
INDY is known here for their reactionary “progressive”/“liberal” reporting. I lean blue, but I find INDY usually has uninformed, usually nimby, takes on any development in the area.
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