Confirmed with Link: Centennial Authority votes to rename PNC Arena to the Lenovo Center

[Wolfpuck]

This year? Are we sure?

Well you’re no fun.

 

[Nogatco Rd]

Better than the Sidney Lowe era of NCSU:

"Well, boys. 2 down and 40 behind. No one knows what'll happen at 60."
"We don't play quarters in college, coach. So where the **** did you go for 2 minutes halfway through the first half!?"


Yeah, I had them build me a custom job for a machine learning project back in late 2019, and it's still running well for me. IT keeps harassing me that the machine is no longer under warranty and I should replace it, but it's still more powerful than the standard "high perfromance" laptop I could get in their Lenovo contract. So I'll run this into the ground.

something about the phrase "back in late 2019" just feels wrong

 

[SlavinAway]

something about the phrase "back in late 2019" just feels wrong

In the before times

 

[A Star is Burns]

This year? Are we sure?

 

[Blueline Bomber]

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[A Star is Burns]

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[hblueridgegal]

New Lenovo Center renderings unveiled: Here's what the $1 billion redevelopment could look like :: WRALSportsFan.com

New renderings show what the development around the Lenovo Center could look like in the future.

www.wralsportsfan.com

Logistics and timing info. In comparison to much of N Hills development, this project still comes across as a bit slow moving to me.

 

[MinJaBen]

New Lenovo Center renderings unveiled: Here's what the $1 billion redevelopment could look like :: WRALSportsFan.com

New renderings show what the development around the Lenovo Center could look like in the future.

www.wralsportsfan.com

Logistics and timing info. In comparison to much of N Hills development, this project still comes across as a bit slow moving to me.

Those two little sections of parking are doing a lot of work in this rendering...

 

[chaz4hockey]

“ arena parking to take up about 20 acres on the northeast side of the arena. It calls for the parking garage to be a maximum height of 40 stories.”

Talk about putting 10 lbs into a 2 lb bag.

All that concentrated building around the “center” and a 40 story parking deck.

lol, they better hope Musk has developed a flying car by then because that is going to be a nightmare getting in and out of that area/an event.

 

[MinJaBen]

“ arena parking to take up about 20 acres on the northeast side of the arena. It calls for the parking garage to be a maximum height of 40 stories.”

Talk about putting 10 lbs into a 2 lb bag.

All that concentrated building around the “center” and a 40 story parking deck.

lol, they better hope Musk has developed a flying car by then because that is going to be a nightmare getting in and out of that area/an event.

40 Stories of a parking garage?!? f***. That.

 

[The Jerk Store]

“ arena parking to take up about 20 acres on the northeast side of the arena. It calls for the parking garage to be a maximum height of 40 stories.”

Talk about putting 10 lbs into a 2 lb bag.

All that concentrated building around the “center” and a 40 story parking deck.

lol, they better hope Musk has developed a flying car by then because that is going to be a nightmare getting in and out of that area/an event.

It actually says in the awkwardly-phrased article that the structure wouldn't be all parking. Another detail that is commonly overlooked by the authors of these articles is that the zoning has been increased UP TO 40 stories. That means it could very well be one story above the current limit, which may be 12 or 20 stories.

Edit: I don't think even NYC has a forty-story parking structure.

 

[Svechhammer]

“ arena parking to take up about 20 acres on the northeast side of the arena. It calls for the parking garage to be a maximum height of 40 stories.”

Talk about putting 10 lbs into a 2 lb bag.

All that concentrated building around the “center” and a 40 story parking deck.

lol, they better hope Musk has developed a flying car by then because that is going to be a nightmare getting in and out of that area/an event.

I am going to assume thats a mistype and its only a 4 story parking deck.

The current tallest building in Raleigh is 32 stories. I highly doubt we'll be building a parking deck that itself is taller at the arena.

 

[hblueridgegal]

From the TBJ:




I didn't realize an outdoor music venue was in the works, too.

 

[chaz4hockey]

I am going to assume thats a mistype and its only a 4 story parking deck.

The current tallest building in Raleigh is 32 stories. I highly doubt we'll be building a parking deck that itself is taller at the arena.

I don’t know. Various articles all stating 40 stories is the goal. However, I agree that a 40 story parking deck seems well out of the norm but regardless, cramming all that density into the area is going to make parking a nightmare no matter how high the deck is.

IMO, that type of project density should not be approved given the transportation madness it will cause.

 

[WreckingCrew]

It's

I am going to assume thats a mistype and its only a 4 story parking deck.

The current tallest building in Raleigh is 32 stories. I highly doubt we'll be building a parking deck that itself is taller at the arena.

It's just a spiral with parking on the outside of it...takes the poor dude at the top 3-4 business days to get out of that nightmare.

 

[Svechhammer]

I don’t know. Various articles all stating 40 stories is the goal. However, I agree that a 40 story parking deck seems well out of the norm but regardless, cramming all that density into the area is going to make parking a nightmare no matter how high the deck is.

IMO, that type of project density should not be approved given the transportation madness it will cause.

Reading those tweets that @hblueridgegal posted, they're just getting clearance to raise the ceiling for any building constructed in this area to be up to 40 stories. Same exact thing they did when they got going with North Hills.

 

[The Jerk Store]

I also question the live/work aspect of this development. 19.000 people all trying to get in/out of the same place at the same time isn't that appealing.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

I also question the live/work aspect of this development. 19.000 people all trying to get in/out of the same place at the same time isn't that appealing.

Didn't Dundon say in the interview that getting parking fixed was one of his top priorities? If nothing else, you can usually take the man at his word when he calls out something specific like that.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Reading those tweets that @hblueridgegal posted, they're just getting clearance to raise the ceiling for any building constructed in this area to be up to 40 stories. Same exact thing they did when they got going with North Hills.

Yeah they’re definitely not building anything like a 40 story parking garage, that would be the biggest in the world by a healthy margin. Even half that height is about the maximum height that you’d see in a very large city.

Most likely it will be in the 5-10 story range and the other 30+ stories will be offices which use the deck when there isn’t an event going on.

My biggest concern with the density of what’s being proposed here is that I’m only seeing one new street entrance to the complex, which looks like a two-lane road to Wade Ave. The entire site needs more traffic “breathability” and it’s not gonna get it with this plan.