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If you haven’t been by recently, the North Carolina Education campus is rocking two cranes at the moment. It’s possible, as spotted by the Community, that a third is on the way. This block-sized project has had all its work take place below street-level, most likely building underground parking, but it looks like some of that has reached sidewalk heights and here in the Fall, the project may begin to rise.
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The state government seems to be done digging it’s large hole along Jones Street and now has a crane set up to start putting things in it. We’ll actually see a second crane here as the base for it is already in place.
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It’s kind of crazy to watch the work taking place over at the future North Carolina Education Campus. This project is using an entire city block. To the best of my knowledge, it’s all office space which is kind of wild given the state of commercial real estate here in the year 2024. I’ll let you take that however you want.
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The old North Carolina Administration building is currently being demolished over on Jones Street. It’s certainly not an implosion kind of thing but a slow “chipping away at it” process as it’s easily been over a week, maybe two, and they are only about halfway through. It’ll certainly open things up a bit on Jones once finished.
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Seems like the only one building new office space in downtown is the state government. In this economy and with Raleigh having some of the highest work-from-home percentages in the country, make of that what you will. The block just north of the Nature Research Center, shown above, has been mostly cleared. The surface parking lot has been removed and all the trees are gone as construction of the North Carolina Education Campus is in its early stages.
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Adopted this July, the North Carolina Legislature’s 2022-2023 budget has a few items worth noting for the downtown government office complex. Probably the quietest part of downtown Raleigh, the government complex is a collection of office buildings housing many departments that work and support the state-level government.
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