Residents of Durham’s Walltown neighborhood aired their concerns over the Northgate Mall redevelopment at a community meeting Saturday attended by the developer’s attorneys.
Lena Geller
Lena Geller is a reporter for INDY, covering food, housing, and politics. She joined the staff in 2018 and previously ran a custom cake business.
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Q&A with a Planet Fitness Strike Organizer
Workers at a Durham Planet Fitness protested working conditions at the location on Labor Day.
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QueenBurger Opens in Durham This Week
The owners of Queeny’s and Kingfisher Cocktail Bar will complete their triple crown of Durham’s restaurant scene with a Thursday, September 15 opening.
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How Durham Police Will Evaluate the ShotSpotter Rollout
As Durham prepares to roll out the controversial crime-fighting technology, officials explain how they’ll judge its effectiveness.
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Developer’s Offer to Transform a Durham Parking Deck into Apartments Met with Cold Shoulder
A Triangle-based firm wants to turn half of the city-owned Durham Centre parking garage into a towering apartment complex, but Durham’s city council isn’t so sure.
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Northgate Mall’s New Owner’s Plan Doesn’t Include Housing, But Durham’s Council Still Has Leverage Over Its Future
Walltown residents have fought for decades to bring prosperity to their community. With a developer’s plans for a research campus at nearby Northgate Mall requiring a rezoning, Durham’s city council holds the cards.
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Sunday Reading: What Is the TSA For?
If the TSA isn’t making travelers any safer, what is the agency but yet another displacement of the country’s collective grief?
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Early Data Shows Durham’s Community Safety Pilot Programs Are Working
The pilot programs, which rely on skilled, unarmed first responders to help resolve nonviolent calls to Durham’s 911 call center, is set to expand soon.
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A Former Raleigh Homebuilder Hung Up His Hard Hat to Run a Modular Farm
Trevor Spear traded homebuilding for farming out of a shipping container and now sells produce to some of Raleigh’s most acclaimed eateries.
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Six Months After Ending Their Strike, Former Acme Workers Celebrate NLRB Win
The strike, which spanned November 2021 to February 2022, was triggered by what employees described as the “willful ignorance of upper management” in addressing sexual harassment allegations they had raised against Acme’s owner.
