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Official Wake Campus Development Thread
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I'm not trying to be a dick, but any plan that even mentions an FHL (now FPHL) team is a bullshit plan.
We enjoy the games/environment as much as the next guy... but, if you charge that crowd $2 for parking... the place would be burned to the ground along with everything surrounding it.
I think that the last new head coach lasted 3 days.
CaptRenault
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The student tailgating spot is more inviting than the Gold lot.The WF student tailgate experience documented in Renault's above piece:
Here's what it's like to party at one of the biggest tailgates in the US
Fall marks the start of football season, which means it's time to head to the nearest tailgate, where fans come together to eat, drink, and socialize before the game begins. As a Wake Forest University alum, I went back to college to tailgate with my friends and cheer on the Demon Deacons.www.insider.com
Deacfreak07
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People pay a premium to park closer. People who pay premiums don’t give many shits about amenities. There are some dope as hell options already throughout the blue, red and orange lots. Way better than most of the gold. The areas around the perimeter of the big lots are honestly about as good as it gets. You just have to walk to to them.
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CaptRenault
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While there has been some activity happening in re-purposing the Reynolds buildings in Whitaker Park, I don't think that there are "tenants lined up" to fill such a huge amount of space.
According to the WS Journal a small medical device company called Cook Medical has agreed to take over buildings 2-1 and 2-2 (shown on the right side of the photo below), but I don't think that has actually happened yet.
When Reynolds left Whitaker Park, it donated buildings containing 1.7 million square feet of space to the Whitaker Park Development Authority. It's a lot of space to fill and despite rosy predictions that have been made about it, there are only a small number of tenants occupying space there so far.
Whitaker Park certainly has potential but it could take years for it to be fully redeveloped and its employee count will probably never equal the 15K+ Reynolds employees who once worked there.
Deacfreak07
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Hasn't there also been a new apartment complex added near the new Second Harvest Food Bank location too? Cook Medical has been operating on the north side of Winston for a while I think.
myDeaconmyhand
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I’m all for lower income housing, absolutely, but food bank and medical supply store don’t really seem to fit in, economically, with the vision of mixed use development that Wake is going for with this property.
Deacfreak07
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I think the apartments are fairly high end, and those are adjacent to the mixed use development property rather than part of it. At the end of the day its more people living and working in a space where Wake wants retail and restaurant development.
BarcaDeac
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someone saw Chris Paul over there signing a lease the other day
There should be a church at the focal point of the development.
Cook Medical is not a medical supply store. It's a high-tech company that builds minimally invasive medical devices.
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So an even better mixed use fit, maybe some dinner, a little ice cream, hit up numbers packie, then shop for my minimally invasive medical device before heading home.
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Our football players were much more skilled on the Saf foosball table than they were on the gridiron.
That win @UNC our senior year was pretty sweet though.
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Bring back Simo's, Safari Room, and Pizza Garden!
CaptRenault
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Yes, there are two older, all brick industrial buildings that are undergoing conversion to apartments, but not open yet. The location is Reynolds Boulevard across from Woodland Cemetery. The apartments are located 2 miles from a second-tier law school
("WFU School of Law"). I read somewhere that those buildings had been designated as historic buildings so they were eligible for tax benefits, like a lot of the buildings in the Innovation Quarter. 
Multi-story loft industrial buildings are not functional space for modern industrial users so conversion to office, retail, and multifamily is what happens to the buildings that don't get torn down. NC has a lot of them from the old textile mill and tobacco days.
No, it's not. Construction costs are sky high and banks don't want to lend for speculative office construction due to vacancy rates. Every city is different though in terms of inventory.