John Kane, manager of Kane Realty Group, developer of North Hills, has set his sights (sites?) on downtown Raleigh. According to records obtained by the INDY this week from the City of Raleigh, Kane offered to purchase the city-owned land at 301 Hillsborough Street—a parking lot across the street from the Dawson Condominiums and Campbell […]
Jane Porter
Jane Porter is Wake County editor of the INDY, covering Raleigh and other communities across Wake County. She first joined the staff in 2013 and is a former INDY intern, staff writer, and editor-in-chief, first joining the staff in 2013.
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Wake County to take the public out of a public library
So last week, Wake County Public Libraries unceremoniously informed residents of a mixed-income Southwest Raleigh neighborhood that, starting July 26, the Athens Drive High School library many of them had come to rely on for book-learnin’ and Internet access would be closed. Shockingly, this did not go over well. In a letter, Ann Burlingame, deputy […]
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North Carolina Legislature could gut lake, river protections
When we think of the Neuse River, most of us conjure up images of leafy banks, sandy beaches and placid waters ideal for canoeing and kayaking, not thousands of dead fish floating on the surface. But if a provision in House Bill 44a regulatory reform measure that would allow developers to bulldoze right up to […]
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Duke Energy recommends clean-up for more coal ash sites across N.C.
On Tuesday morning, Duke Energy took the long-awaited step of recommending excavation of 12 additional coal ash basins at three unlined, leaking sites across North Carolina, in addition to the work it’s already doing to clean up six other sites. Duke Energy announced plans to clean up and potentially close five basins at the Cape […]
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Raleigh’s Warehouse District: A tale of two Dillons
Correction: The photo of the Charter Square building was incorrectly credited to Art Howard; it actually belongs to Raleigh news blog New Raleigh Yesterday, Raleigh real estate and development blog Capital Compass shared a rendering from Kane Realty of developer John Kane’s vision for the Dillon Supply building and nearby parcels of land in downtown […]
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Raleigh activists discuss homelessness, food insecurity
On Tuesday, the same day Raleigh’s much-awaited, $20 million affordable housing plan was unveiled, a panel of activists gathered at the Walnut Creek Wetland Center to discuss another set of intricately linked issues that the city faces: homelessness and food insecurity. Hosted by City Council member Bonner Gaylord, panelists discussed the root causes of homelessness […]
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Wake County Commissioners flout state, invest in schools
In other legislative news, the state Senate took a break from hating on the queers and telling chicks what to do with their uteruses to pat themselves on the back in advance for cutting income taxes (again!) and redistributing sales tax revenues to prop up the small, flailing rural counties they come from. This, of […]
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A Warehouse District workaround
If the residents of Raleigh’s Warehouse District will have to look out their windows at a 20-story tower where the Dillon Supply Co. building now sits, they want to make damn sure that the development is at least done well. They want shops, offices and apartments at ground level, not parking decks; they want buildings […]
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N.C. House votes to override McCrory veto of magistrates’ recusal bill
Shocker. The Legislature voted to override Gov. McCrory’s veto of Senate Bill 2 on Thursday, the one where state-employed magistrates can recuse themselves from their main job duty—marrying couples—if they cite a deeply held religious objection to gay people, just like Jesus definitely would do. Senate Bill 2 is the brainchild of Senate pro tempore […]
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Off of Aviation Parkway, remembering Tommy Sadler
If you were driving to the airport from Raleigh today, chances are you spotted Rav Marchand. The former Army Captain (unverified) was posted up off of the Aviation Parkway exit on I-40 West, dancing on his prosthetic legs, waving his bouquet of flags, talking the ears off of all who stopped to listen to him. […]