Developers of the controversial 751 South project in southern Durham County have re-applied for annexation and utility service from the city. In 2012, the City Council unanimously denied annexation and utilities, but support in current state legislature has changed the situation.
Published: May. 19, 2013 6:22 PM | Full story
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Developers and Durham dignitaries ceremonially broke ground last week for an apartment complex at the former site of a run-down motel on West Chapel Hill Street.
Published: May. 18, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
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Chapel Hill developer Roger Perry has a contract to buy the Liberty Warehouse in downtown Durham, as long as the City Council rescinds its designation as a Local Historic Landmark. Perry plans to redevelop the property for apartments, offices and stores.
Published: May. 14, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
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Whether to keep the Liberty Warehouse as a local historic landmark or remove the designation at its owner’s request is due for a City Council decision May 20. The future of Durham’s last remaining tobacco-auction house has been in question since its roof collapsed in 2011.
Published: May. 4, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
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Developer Jim Yamin has withdrawn a rezoning request for a 76-unit apartment complex on Cook Road, but said he plans to build a smaller project under the property’s current zoning.
Published: Apr. 20, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
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The city of Durham is taking steps to provide water and sewer service to a planned economic development district next to the city limits in Orange County. Under city policy, an actual utility extension would mean annexation across the county line.
Published: Apr. 16, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Free parking on downtown streets will be a thing of the past, if the City Council adopts the advice of a consultants’ report.
Published: Apr. 13, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
An apartment complex for low-income tenants met resistance Tuesday night from neighbors and the Durham Planning Commission.
Published: Apr. 13, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
With Durham’s preservation commission approving his 26-story downtown tower, developer Greg Hills is ready to go looking for money. He estimates the project needs about $40 million, and he’s confident of success as long as the world behaves itself.
Published: Apr. 6, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
The Historic Preservation Commission gave its support Tuesday for a proposed 26-story tower that will be a mix of retail, offices and apartments in the heart of downtown Durham.
Published: Apr. 3, 2013 10:23 AM | Full story
A Colorado developer puts his 26-story downtown Durham project out for citizens’ response at two public meetings Tuesday.
Published: Apr. 2, 2013 1:21 PM | Full story
By unanimous vote, the Durham City Council changed Durham’s ordinances last week to allow commercial crop farming city-wide, and to open most zoning districts for farmers’ markets to operate.
Published: Mar. 23, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Self-Help gave out some details on its project at West Chapel Hill and Kent streets last week, and heard from some neighbors who still aren’t sure they’re happy about it.
Published: Mar. 19, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
With CEO Bill Kalkhof retiring at the end of April, Downtown Durham Inc. is facing its first change of leadership with 20 years’ achievement and a revitalized city center. The nonprofit still has a job ahead, though: to keep the buzz going and the next project always in the pipeline.
Published: Mar. 16, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
It’s 10 a.m. on a Saturday. Exhales echo in the cement-floor gym. “Top position,” Harold Cook prepares the class for push-ups. “A little lower ... A little lower ... Touch your chest.”
Published: Mar. 11, 2013 11:01 AM | Full story
A Raleigh real estate developer has begun construction of a new hotel and retail center in Durham. MJM Group plans to build a 105-room hotel and 30,000 square feet of retail, restaurant and medical office space just off Chapel Hill Boulevard near Interstate 40.
Published: Mar. 7, 2013 11:38 AM | Full story
Most City Council members favored a proposed apartment complex at the corner of N.C. 54 and Barbee Road, but a citizens’ protest petition overrode their vote and blocked the 300-unit Meadows at Southpoint.
Published: Mar. 5, 2013 3:03 PM | Full story
The Durham Bulls will host the 2014 Triple-A All-Star Game at Durham Bulls Athletic Park, an event expected to generate more than $3 million in visitor spending to the area.
Published: Feb. 21, 2013 12:09 PM | Full story
The company that owns West Village planned to put an apartment building on a parking lot, but has changed its mind since an encounter with the Historic Preservation Commission.
Published: Feb. 19, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
On Business: High Strung School of Music: High Strung Violins and Guitars doesn’t struggle to sell ukuleles. Until recently, its problem was not being able to teach aspiring players of ukuleles and other string instruments who kept asking about music lessons.
Published: Feb. 19, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
A Kentucky firm that operates hotels featuring contemporary-art museum has taken title to the landmark Hill Building downtown. The company, 21c Museum Hotels, must start its renovations, estimated to cost $48 million, by June 30 to qualify for $7 million in city and county incentives.
Published: Feb. 16, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Greenfire Development wants the city to remove the local historic landmark designation from its Liberty Warehouse. Greenfire applied for and got the designation, and the tax break that comes with it, in 2010, but now the ‘historic’ status poses a problem for the company’s development plans.
Published: Feb. 12, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Neighbors: The Chicken Hut’s catering service is well known. If you’ve attended a special event and got luscious soul food instead of the usual chicken wraps from a big-box warehouse, chances are it was from the Chicken Hut.
Published: Feb. 12, 2013 3:14 PM | Full story
Carolina Theatre CEO Bob Nocek says the operation’s finances are looking good, but it still carries a “significant deficit.” The deficit, and other money questions, still concern City Manager Tom Bonfield as Carolina Theatre Inc.’s management contract comes up for renewal.
Published: Feb. 9, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Self Help wants to delay the rezoning for its commercial project on West Chapel Hill Street. The Durham nonprofit needs more time to make its neighbors feel comfortable with what it has in mind, but what it has in mind is still “kind of loose.”
Published: Feb. 9, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
After stay-at-home mother Emily McCall had her second daughter, escaping the house became more necessary. “The four walls just start closing in on you,” she said.
Published: Jan. 29, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
North Carolina Wesleyan College President James Gray III and Durham Tech President Bill Ingram signed a memorandum of understanding this month that formalizes a transfer partnership between the two schools.
Published: Jan. 26, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
A $50 million gift from Anne T. and Robert M. Bass of Fort Worth, Texas, will encourage Duke students and faculty to collaborate across traditional academic boundaries to tackle complex societal problems.
Published: Jan. 24, 2013 12:00 AM | Full story
Brushstrokes: “A lot of people said that the president should have this photograph,” said Durham-based photojournalist Jean-Christian Rostagni. He decided to raise money so that he could give it to the president as a thank you for his vision of a better country (jean-christian.net/art/representantion/foto4obama).
Published: Jan. 15, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Larry Ruffin is still practicing some barbering skills, like how to perfectly blend a hair line. But he had one tool of the trade mastered before enrolling at D & D Barber Institute in November – the gift of gab. “Me, I ain’t ever met a stranger,” said Ruffin
Published: Jan. 15, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
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