It was announced a couple of years ago that construction would soon begin on the final engineering building on Centennial Campus that would close the Engineering Oval. The Engineering Oval on Centennial Campus:
The project is set to begin on May 15th, 2018 and will be completed in 2020. The project is pretty expansive, will work to totally renovate and expand upon the administrative building at Carmichael that sits directly on Cates Avenue in front of the Carmichael Recreation Center, and will connect the new building, the original gymnasium (which has also undergone some pretty extensive renovations itself in recent years), and the recreation center that was built in 2007. I’ve mentioned these renovations to Carmichael before, but The Technician recently published an article with some additional details. I always felt like it was a matter of time before The Velvet Cloak Inn was razed, but it’s definitely different to see the large scale of the Theory Raleigh building in comparison to what The Velvet Cloak looked like standing in the same spot not too long ago. It’s crazy to think that The Velvet Cloak Inn was once one of the premier places to stay in Raleigh, as during my years at State it had always looked at least a decade past what should’ve been its expiration date. Theory Raleigh is located in the area where The Velvet Cloak Inn once stood. The newest of these student housing projects is Theory Raleigh, which is set to open in August 2018. If you’ve read any of the previous posts I’ve made about changes going on around NCSU, you’ve seen there’s been a big boom in student housing options within walking distance of campus. It will be interesting to see how much this development helps to better connect Cameron Village and Hillsborough Street. That entire section of Hillborough is very soon going to be almost unrecognizable to anyone who hasn’t visited Raleigh in 5 or 6 years. I lived at the end of Maiden Lane during my junior year at NCSU, so it is definitely a little weird to drive up Maiden now and to see those houses gone, but the vast majority of those houses were well beyond repair. The houses up Maiden Lane were bought by a real estate developer over the last few years, and were finally demolished over the last couple of months to make way for a new apartment complex, Hillstone Cameron Village. Maiden Lane is the street across from the Belltower that runs up beside the Aloft Hotel on Hillsborough. The project is expected to finish in May and will include new sidewalks, the power & utility lines now being buried underneath these new sidewalks, newly added bike lanes, and brick medians. I was back in Raleigh a few weeks ago and the biggest change I noticed was the removal of the Traffic Light where Dan Allen runs into Hillsborough St. These roundabouts have taken the place of street lights along this stretch of Hillsborough in an effort to help improve traffic flow and congestion. However, the current construction has been going on for a couple of years now on the other side of the street and finally seems to be nearing an end.Īs detailed in the link above from the News & Observer, three additional roundabouts have been added at Brooks Avenue, Dixie Trail / Friendly Drive and Shepherd Street / Rosemary Street. The original street construction / revitalization concluded back in 2010 on the side of the street closest to Downtown Raleigh.
The largest of these changes going on around NCSU has been the long-running Hillsborough Street Construction. It’s been a couple of months since I last posted one of these campus updates, but a few pretty notable projects have been announced on and around campus recently.
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