Posted Apr 15, 2012, 2:55 PM
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Oak City
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Raleigh
Posts: 4,946
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- Many new buildings including 6 new towers over 100 meters, two of them over 200 meters.
- New downtown arena hosting NBA, AHL (hockey), college tournaments, and concerts.
- Epicenter development - new entertainment district downtown featuring restaurants, bowling alley, theater, hotel, stores, etc.
- NC Music Factory - redevelopment of old warehouse district into nightclubs, restaurants, a Fillmore, and an outdoor amphitheater downtown.
- First second of the LYNX light rail line opened and new transit oriented development.
- Expansion of the airport with a 3rd parallel runway, becoming 6th busiest (in traffic) in the nation.
- The new Wells Fargo cultural campus downtown which includes the Betchler Museum of Modern Art, new Mint Museum, 1,200 seat Knight Theater, and African American Cultural Center.
- Being chosen to host the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
- Opening of the US National Whitewater Center
Credit: M Denzek. Source.
- Construction and expansion of many miles of greenways and the cleanup and uncapping of Sugar Creek.
Honorable mention: Opening of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
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