For my Monday lunchtime walk I went from my building at Hargett and Fayetteville Street all the way down to Memorial Auditorium and back. It was the first time since I’ve been in Raleigh that I could make that stroll without taking a massive detour around the ugly concrete monstrosity that was the old Raleigh Civic Center or the construction site that for a time replaced it.
The plastic road barriers are still partitioning the new Raleigh Marriott from the rest of Fayetteville Street, but foot traffic now flows freely from the north end of F-street to the south. This downtown thing is coming together nicely.