It’s the first day of autumn. We at the North Carolina Land Use Litigator thought we’d take this chance to look at the world of real estate and land use a little differently. Our study takes us this morning to urban planner Roger Lewis’s piece from The Washington Post, […]
You’ll recall from prior posts here and here, the proposed 751 South development in Durham, North Carolina — which is planned to consist of 1,300 houses, townhomes, apartments and condos plus as much as 600,000 square feet of office and retail space — is rather divisive. In a […]
Opening in the summer of 1928 along the Long Island Sound waterfront of Westchester County, New York, the Rye Playland amusement park has been offering “family fun” to generations. The wooden Dragon Coaster, the pioneering Airplane Coaster, and the novel Kiddie Coaster have dazzled guests of this Coney […]
Charlotte’s light rail line is getting some good press. It seems the Lynx Rapid Transit Services, the 9.6-mile light rail line serviced by the Charlotte Area Transit System, has become the envy of Tampa, Florida. By some estimates, the Lynx system sees some 21,600 riders per day, already […]
The Board of Directors of the Research Triangle Foundation, which oversees North Carolina’s 7,000-acre Research Triangle Park (“RTP”), has selected New York-based design firm Cooper, Robertson & Partners to handle the process of preparing a new master plan for park development. This marks the first such plan update […]
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