The project is still too big. That’s the takeaway from a revised report about the proposed Greystone Inn Apartments, issued by Durham planning department. The developers, Lomax Properties, based in Greensboro, have improved some aspects of the project at Duke Street and Morehead Avenue, but it still has 140 units. It still has three buildings. […]
Lisa Sorg
Bio: Lisa Sorg is the editor of INDY Week.Email: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/lisasorg
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NBC/Marist poll shows Hagan with 4 percentage point lead
With less than a month until Election Day, Sen. Kay Hagan is backed by 44 percent of likely voters, compared to 40 percent for GOP challenger Thom Tillis, according to an NBC/Marist poll and reported by The New York Times. The 4 percentage point difference is within the margin of error. Meanwhile, Libertarian candidate Sean […]
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For no other reason than I love trains
One night in 1970, my mother was driving the family’s red 1968 Chevelle, with my brother and I seated in the back. Even though we were in the city, I remember it being quite dark. Suddenly, my mother slammed the brakes, and out of the blackness rushed a train. It barely missed us. A foot, […]
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Greystone Inn apartments decision delayed until December—at least
A quick update on the proposed Greystone Inn apartment complex: The project at Duke Street and Morehead Avenue was scheduled to come before the Historic Preservation Commission today, but Ron Horvath of Horvath Associates, the civil engineering firm working on the proposal, asked for a continuance until December. The HPC granted the continuance, the second […]
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$4 million later, and Amendment One has come undone
$4 million would feed a lot of poor people. Or help fund affordable housing, health care centers, after school programs—all things that contribute to the public good. But no, two years ago, $4 million in private money was raised to either defend or fight Amendment One, the passage of which defined marriage between a man […]
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Greystone Inn apartments: big, bulky and we’ll say it, ugly
The project is still too big. That’s the takeaway from a revised report about the proposed Greystone Inn Apartments, issued by Durham planning department. [pdf-1] Lomax Properties of Greensboro, the developers of a proposed apartment complex at Duke Street and Morehead Avenue, have improved some aspects of the project, but it still has 140 units. […]
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Durham Innovation District to be built downtown
There were so many suits stuffed into a second-floor room at the Carmichael Building on North Duke Street that it looked like a Jos. A. Bank store. Instead the occasion was the announcement this morning of a $500 million new development proposed for the northwest side of downtown: the Durham Innovation District with 1.7 million […]
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The Scrap Exchange and possibility
If you drive down Chapel Hill Road, or even better, travel via the No. 10 bus line, you will enter possibility. Two miles southwest of downtown Durham, the neighborhoodsLakewood Park, Lyon Park, Longmeadow and Tuscaloosa-Lakewoodare some of the most racially and economically diverse areas of the city. Filled with gleaming euphoniums, The Tuba Exchange is […]
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100 more condos planned for downtown Durham
501 Realty is working with a developer on a new condo project in downtown Durham, according to an email sent to businesses at American Underground at Main. The INDY offices are in the same building as AU at Main. The project will bring 100 new condos ranging from $230,000 to $900,000. The email asked workers […]
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What’s he building in there?
Behind a red door in a nondescript building on Chapel Hill Road, there is a lot of ruckus going on. Rhys Botica, who owns several Durham bars—the Federal, Social Gameroom & Tap, Surf Club and the Criterion, which just opened last week—has purchased the 4,320-square-foot building at 1820 Chapel Hill Road. Durham property records confirm […]
