Development Beat: The Standard Moves Ahead and More Apartments Planned for Hillsborough Street

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Week of October 16, 2017

The Standard at Raleigh Apartments move forward

More apartments planned behind old IHOP

Midtown Yoga coming soon to North Hills

Mami Nora’s begins working on new Brier Creek location

Pho Sure opens at Celebration Station

New Pizza restaurant coming to Downtown Raleigh?

StateView Hotel opens on Centennial Campus

Sitework underway for new Publix-anchored Leesville Marketplace

Site Plans Filed for The Standard on Hillsborough

On October 3, Raleigh’s City Council approved a rezoning request for The Standard at Raleigh, a new student apartment complex planned for 3101 Hillsborough Street. That approval allowed Landmark Properties to take the next step toward breaking ground: filing a site review plan.

In order to make way for the new 5-story complex, the existing 81-year-old structure, originally home to the North Carolina Equipment Company, will have to be torn down. Fortunately, the tractor sign sitting atop that two-story building will be preserved per one of the conditions offered in the rezoning case. “The tractor sign will be placed on the Hillsborough Street frontage and lighted.”

The apartment building will offer ground-floor retail, and be accompanied by a 452-space parking deck. The Standard will offer 46 one-bedrooms, 48 two-bedrooms, and 23 three-bedrooms, and 115 four-bedroom units.

The site plan will be reviewed by city staffers and will require only administrative approval. The next step will be for Landmark to undergo the commercial standard review process, after which they will be eligible for permits and construction.

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More Apartments Proposed Behind Old IHOP

FMW Real Estate submitted to the City two new site reviews for apartments that will be built behind the old Hillsborough Street IHOP.

In January, we reported that FMW had begun working on a new four-story, 87-unit student housing complex behind the IHOP at 109 Park Avenue. The plans filed last week call for building two additional 16-unit structures that will stand three and four stories tall on the lots directly backing up to the IHOP site on Park and Ashe Avenues.

The four-story, 13,990 square foot building will sit on a small, .24 acre lot at 103 Park Avenue and will have 5 one-bedroom, 7 two-bedroom, and 4 three-bedroom units. The three-story building fronting Ashe Avenue is described as having 16 total units, but the breakdown only lists 6 one-bedroom, 6 two-bedroom, and 3 three-bedroom units. As far as we can tell, there isn’t any parking required for either of the new buildings, and the combined total of a half-acre for the two adjacent lots on which they’ll sit don’t really leave much room for parking lots.

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Permits Issued for North Hills Yoga Studio

Five months after announcing plans to bring a new yoga studio to North Hills, permits have been issued for Midtown Yoga on the ground floor of the Park Central Apartments. The $135,000 fit-out will be handled by The Raleigh Construction Company.

Although the website for Midtown Yoga, which promises to become “your new favorite studio for all things yoga” says it will not open until late 2017, it appears that owner Emily Wallace has been holding Yoga classes in outdoor spaces at North Hills, such as Midtown Park.

Mami-Mia! Popular Peruvian Chicken Restaurant to Open Near Pleasant Valley

Raleigh’s most mouthwatering chicken joint, Mami Nora’s, will soon be expanding with a new, larger space near Pleasant Valley. The new restaurant will be housed in a 9,100 square-foot space at 6711 Glenwood Avenue.

Mami Nora’s had initially announced the new location in December of 2016, but at the time the plan was to open in early 2017. In April, permits were issued for a new wall sign, and last week, a small $5,000 interior alteration permit for “equipment change and related building work” was issued to the local firm Swift Inc.

Pho Sure Now Open at Celebration Station

The new Vietnamese restaurant Pho Sure, whose construction at Celebration Station on Six Forks we first reported on back in May, held a soft opening last week, garnering praise or its friendly service, enchanting décor and, of course, for its pork buns.

More Pizza for Downtown Raleigh?

Food blogger EatRaleigh announced this week that a new pizza place would be opening in downtown Raleigh “behind the Raleigh Times”. As Raleigh Times is located on East Hargett, we assume the future pizza restaurant would be located at 206 S Wilmington in a building owned by one of Greg Hatem’s many subsidiaries. Of the building’s three storefronts, two are occupied, by Feelgoodz shoe store and Moon & Lola Jewelry, while the other sits empty. Presumably, this is where the pizza restaurant would go.

🍕🍕🍕🍕Was told the space behind the Raleigh Times was becoming a pizza joint. 🍕🍕🍕🍕 #YearOfDowntownPizza

— eatRaleigh (@eatRaleigh) October 6, 2017

New Tenant to Move in To Old Flanders Gallery by January

Local developer James Goodnight announced on Twitter last week that a new tenant had been found for the old Flanders Gallery at 302 South West Street. He said they hoped to open by January, but that they were at the mercy of all the work being done on Union Station and The Dillon.

In October 2014, the Flanders art gallery relocated to a new space on Blount Street. In 2016, it closed for good.

New tenant lined up for the old Flanders Gallery at 302 S West St. Hope to open by January, but at the mercy of Union Station/Dillon work. pic.twitter.com/sAYQx9JEPL

— James Goodnight (@jamesagoodnight) October 12, 2017

Hotel With a View

After more than two years of construction, the luxurious StateView Hotel on NC State’s Centennial Campus opened its doors for the first time last week, allowing visitors to NC State the chance to sleep on the shores of Lake Raleigh.

The five and a half story hotel and conference center contains 164 rooms across four guest room levels. The StateView Hotel is part of the Marriott Autograph Hotel collection: independent hotels that utilize the Marriott Branding. W.M. Jordan, acted as the project’s general contractor. If you want to see a virtual tour of the property, check out some of our previous coverage.

Sitework Underway for New Leesville Marketplace

Several sitework-related permits were issued last week for the new Leesville Marketplace, a Publix-anchored shopping center located at the intersection of Leesville Rd. and Strickland Rd. The property will feature 13,000 SF of specialty retail and restaurant space at the former site of the old Leesville Teacherage.

We’ll keep you posted as permits begin to pop up for the center’s various stores; described generically on the project drawings as “Pizzeria” “Yogurt,” “Nails,” “Mobile,” etc.