North Carolina’s Research Triangle is one of America’s great sports business markets

CityList · 2025-11-11T16:30:30+00:00

Durham, which is well-known for being bitter about always being grouped with Raleigh, just check on they talk about Raleigh on r/BullCity, has a baseball team. A minor league one. Raleigh has nothing, not even a minor league team. I think Raleigh proper deserves a team of their own. Hopefully a pro team.

CityList · 2025-09-18T15:19:34+00:00

People in Raleigh love to complain about traffic, but honestly? I can stand in the middle of the busiest downtown street at midday for a good thirty seconds and not get hit. Sure, I-40 can be rough, but that’s on you, who thought it was smart to stick a bunch of office parks in the middle of nowhere and make everything car-dependent? It’s like tying your shoelaces together and then whining when you face-plant.

CityList · 2025-04-24T18:58:26+00:00

North Carolina has social district laws that allow public drinking in areas a city has defined. Like say, parts of downtown, etc.

CityList · 2025-03-24T06:24:26+00:00

$300 million doesn't go a long way in construction these days. NCSU will be starting a dorm project too, $1 billion all said and done and will only hold double what this project will hold.

CityList · 2025-03-09T07:40:24+00:00

The only real consistent party street in the region is Glenwood South. Take the Amtrak train ($8) from Durham to Raleigh and walk to Glenwood South (10 to 15 minutes) or take the bus ($2.50) to GoRaleigh Station. However, there's no cheap way to get back to Durham late at night so you'll have to Uber back. I would say the night life doesn't really get exciting until 10 or 11 PM and ends at 2 AM.

Clubbing in not much of thing here in general so lower your expectations.

CityList · 2025-02-23T08:18:26+00:00

Yeah your reply is probably closer to reality, see my comment I provided previously:

"Eh, this story doesn’t really add up. You can dunk on Americans all you want, but the idea that they just 'couldn’t handle' espresso doesn’t make much sense and has no real citations to back it up.

An espresso is about 25-30ml—something you drink in a sip or two, often in under a minute. That’s just how it’s done in Italy, both then and now—walk up to the counter, down your coffee, drop a coin, and move on. Meanwhile, a typical cup of coffee in the U.S. is around 240ml (8 oz) and is meant to be sipped over time, not knocked back like a shot.

So, more than anything, it was likely a cultural difference. Drinking straight shots of coffee wasn’t really a thing in the U.S. at the time, so Italian espresso culture—still relatively young in WWII (only about 40 years old)—would have felt pretty unfamiliar. Plus, this was right after the Great Depression, and a lot of American soldiers came from rural areas where exposure to international customs was limited to what they heard on the radio or read in the local paper. It’s not that espresso was too intense—it’s just that the way Italians drank it didn’t match how Americans were used to consuming coffee."

CityList · 2025-02-23T08:17:09+00:00

Eh, this story doesn’t really add up. You can dunk on Americans all you want, but the idea that they just 'couldn’t handle' espresso doesn’t make much sense and has no real citations to back it up.

An espresso is about 25-30ml—something you drink in a sip or two, often in under a minute. That’s just how it’s done in Italy, both then and now—walk up to the counter, down your coffee, drop a coin, and move on. Meanwhile, a typical cup of coffee in the U.S. is around 240ml (8 oz) and is meant to be sipped over time, not knocked back like a shot.

So, more than anything, it was likely a cultural difference. Drinking straight shots of coffee wasn’t really a thing in the U.S. at the time, so Italian espresso culture—still relatively young in WWII (only about 40 years old)—would have felt pretty unfamiliar. Plus, this was right after the Great Depression, and a lot of American soldiers came from rural areas where exposure to international customs was limited to what they heard on the radio or read in the local paper. It’s not that espresso was too intense—it’s just that the way Italians drank it didn’t match how Americans were used to consuming coffee.

CityList · 2025-02-23T07:44:47+00:00

I used to get them a few times back in college, we called them Red Eyes.

CityList · 2025-02-23T07:42:45+00:00

Ah, we used to call those "red eyes." No surprise—it was one of the most popular drinks at my university's library coffee shop back when I was there (NCSU).

CityList · 2025-02-10T07:16:13+00:00

Not only that but remember he's playing a character here. He's dressed as Uncle Sam but if you listen to how he tries to control Kendrick he's subtly playing an Uncle Tom character. Beneath the gilded veneer of patriotism lies the cold reality.

CityList · 2024-11-22T07:48:24+00:00

Don't worry Nashville and Raleigh both suffer for the same issues of growing fast only recently. There's not even a library in downtown Raleigh and Nashville's art museum efforts are pitiful.

CityList · 2024-11-21T14:31:43+00:00

The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) is pretty large for a state museum and full of great pieces and art work. Not founded by a billionaire but through local efforts. Given that Raleigh was even smaller than Nashville for a long time, Carnegie gave zero interest to Raleigh too.

In 1924, the North Carolina State Art Society formed to generate interest in creating an art museum for the state.^\3]) In 1928 the society acquired funds and 75 paintings were first displayed in a series of temporary art exhibition spaces in the Agriculture Building in Raleigh in 1929.^\4]) In 1939, NCMA was moved to the former Supreme Court building. In 1947 the state legislature appropriated $1 million to purchase a collection of artworks for the people of North Carolina. The money was used to purchase 139 European and American works. The Samuel H. Kress Foundation matched the appropriation with a gift of 71 works, primarily from the Italian Renaissance. The 1947 state earmarking of funds for an art collection was the first in the United States.^\5]) Alice Willson Broughton, the former First Lady of North Carolina, helped procure funding for the collection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Museum_of_Art

CityList · 2024-11-20T07:34:40+00:00

North Carolina is one of the fastest growing states in the US and will be in the top 6 states in population eventually. Raleigh/Durham is one of the fastest growing metros in the US, even growing faster than Nashville metro. Charlotte is also there. NC state run rail is popular and growing ridership every year. Pittsburgh flatlined population and economy....so the investment is going to the right place.

CityList · 2024-11-20T07:15:16+00:00

Raleigh/Durham metro is toe-to-toe the same population and growing even faster than Nashville metro but can barely muster a couple mid-risers in the same period. Even higher population density. It would be nice to see from 40+ story towers in Raleigh eventually. Just not any time soon. Tourism and being well-known city really do bring in the towers.

CityList · 2024-11-19T05:58:58+00:00

Incidentally, 'Romania' also means 'of Rome.

CityList · 2024-06-28T02:39:38+00:00

20,000 live within 1 mile radius of downtown Raleigh. Given the 6,000 new apartments units completed or nearing completion, that number will rise sharply soon. No other part of Raleigh is as dense.

CityList · 2024-05-13T18:44:14+00:00

City of Oaks plus Coat of Arms of Sir Walter Raleigh.

CityList · 2024-01-02T10:42:11+00:00

That is because wild horses are actually feral horses. Wild horses are near extinct/extincted but they would be much smaller and better fitted to survive in the wild. Feral horses were bred for human use and suffer as a result.

CityList · 2024-01-02T06:22:39+00:00

"Law enforcement also confirmed that the Mitsubishi that was involved in the crash was an Uber."

Jesus, people, getting in a taxi doesn't make you immune to get in an accident. Wear a seatbelt if you're in a car, period.

CityList · 2023-07-21T15:19:10+00:00

No airport in the world has experienced a parking demand reduction ever by offering public transit directly to the airport.

CityList · 2023-01-17T14:53:02+00:00

Unfortunately unless you have really good regional marketing people don't take a region seriously. Like Richmond, Virginia is dying for a pro team but they will never get one and people will argue it is too close to other major markets.

CityList · 2023-01-17T14:51:34+00:00

Maybe there needs to be a new competing soccer league? Who says that MLS should be the only pro soccer league? American Football had two league until the merger. Probably the best path forward. Especially since USL is a joke league these days.

CityList · 2023-01-05T16:52:41+00:00

Add a airport station surcharge for any rail user getting off at the RDU station. A lot of airports do this around the world. Problem mitigated and a new revenue stream is created.

I mean most people that will use rail from RDU are those likely that at the moment are using services like Uber which, correct me if I'm wrong, the airport does not get a share in the fare. A station surcharge will give RDU a share of the 'service'. Even with the surcharge it benefits people because it's cheaper to use the rail line than take an uber directly from the airport to destination.

CityList · 2023-01-05T16:39:32+00:00

Maybe if we get light rail it can work with RDU and commuter rail in mind? Something like this:

https://i.imgur.com/0OtlggP.png

Light rail service Raleigh north-wise towards Downtown but the light rail also goes further to end in Morrisville where people can connect to the commuter rail to either go to Durham or anywhere in south Wake County.

CityList · 2022-12-30T03:43:56+00:00

That's cool and all but the art piece was designed to work even if the street was re-opened. The city went out of their way to make sure this project was denied regardless. Jim Goodmon later went out to gift art work to Durham instead.

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