A free Wi-Fi network in place for large swaths of the city’s downtown was originally installed by a private contractor. When they went out of business, the city was forced to step in.
There’s no shortage of parking in downtown Raleigh. In fact, there’s a huge oversupply. The city bet on parking growth in downtown and now faces a mounting debt for the construction.
A lifelong Raleigh resident on his way to a Master’s program at Harvard charges that the Downtown Raleigh Sports Bar and Grill assaulted him and discriminated against him strictly because of his race.
Cooper’s will soon see new life in a new location following the Planning Commission’s approval Tuesday of a site plan for a six-story retail and residential building. The commission also approved a new parking lot for Rex Hospital.
The Raleigh City Council approved changes Tuesday to the language of the panhandling ordinance. The city attorney says the changes make the ordinance more defensible if challenged in court.
Plans for a $400 million, four-story mixed-use development downtown are slowly moving forward, but on a much smaller scale. The first phase of The Edison could now be a six-story residential building.
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