I took this picture today at North Hills standing on Dartmouth Road and looking towards the construction behind the Captrust Tower (I think it may be the Park & Market apartments but I’m not positive). The photo was taken with my Canon PowerShot SD750, a great little camera that works in a variety of situations. For this shot, I set it to pull out all color, except for the blue sky. I’m definitely not an expert photographer, but I liked how it turned out.
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This amazing picture was taken in August 2008 by Nathan L. Walls, a software developer and photographer in Raleigh. Click the picture to see a variety of sizes. As you can see, things have changed a ton since last year when construction and expansion of North Hills on the other side of Six Forks road was just starting.
You can check out more pictures from Nathan on Flickr, or find out more about him on his website.
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Today, Kane Realty announced that additional apartments at North Hills will open in late 2009. Park & Market is a $125 million, 900,000 square-foot, mixed-use, retail and residential project and will be home to the two-story Harris Teeter we’ve written about previously.
Park & Market will have six levels of high-end apartments (409 total homes) above 93,000 square feet of street-level retail. Residents will enjoy direct, in-building access to the 48,000-square-foot Harris Teeter. An interior structured parking deck with approximately 750 parking spaces will be available for both residents and visitors. …

Since it was such a nice day outside today, I was able to take a few pictures of the construction at North Hills. We’ve come a long way from some of the past pictures from about a year ago (see links below) to now.

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John Kane, CEO of Kane Realty, gave a presentation this morning at the movie theater here to give details of his vision for the expansion of North Hills and The Cardinal (continuing care retirement community) to about 70 guests and prospective residents. Martha Grove Hipskind, director of senior living for Kane Realty (pictured below) was also available to answer questions, and media representatives from NBC17, News14 and ABC were present at the event.

Kane first explained what the area has to offer now and then went into details of the expansion …

In case you missed it, the official groundbreaking ceremony for CAPTRUST Tower at North Hills took place on Tuesday. Over 200 people came to see Kane Realty, Duke Realty, CAPTRUST Financial Advisors and local officials broke ground on the 17-story mixed use development, which will offer 300,000 square feet of premium rentable office and retail space when it opens in fall 2009.
Key speakers at the event included:

John Kane, CEO, Kane Realty Corp.
Denny Oklak, CEO, Duke Realty
The Honorable Charles Meeker, Mayor or Raleigh
Harvey Schmitt, president, Greater Raleigh Chamber of …

The North Hills Buzz crew was out and about early Saturday morning and decided to check out the construction work on North Hills East.  We’ve started a gallery where we’ll be putting construction progress pictures. You can check out the first set of pictures here.
It will be interesting to see how this

will turn into this

Again, here are the first set of North Hills East construction pictures for February.
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The Lassiter at North Hills will be a collection of 49 condominiums ranging from $490k to over $2.5 million (according to their website). North Hills Buzz is planning on devoting some time/research into discovering why they haven’t started building The Lassiter yet and when they plan on starting. We have a few theories and facts, but before we dive in, does anyone have any knowledge of this subject? Feel free to post a comment here or use the contact form if you don’t want your comment to be seen. Also, …

If you haven’t noticed yet, Midtown and Bar 115 has been closed because they’re re-modeling the restaurant. According to 115midtown.com, they’re redoing their website, too. The grand re-opening (of both the restaurant and the website) will be January 28.
I’m curious to see what changes they make. I actually have only eaten there once, but when I did, the food was great.
Check out our page about Midtowne and Bar 115 to see more information about the restaurant (hours, contact info, etc). Some of this may change once they reopen, and if …

It looks like we might not be getting a publicly financed parking deck over at North Hills East, which is a project across the street from the new North Hills mall.
Developer John Kane wants tax breaks totaling more than $100 million over 20 years to build a parking deck for the area.
The proposalWenn man nur mit einem Blatt gegen den Geber profitiert, dann <a href=”http://www.pokermeine.de”>poker</a> man unentschieden (keiner gewinnt oder verliert). calls for the deck to be paid for with a public financing tool called TIFF financing. However, Charles Meeker …