[Vatnos]

Downtown could really use that 28 floor building.

It's unfortunate Raleigh's local developer with the deepest pockets and most overhead is unwilling to build downtown, and goes to great lengths to pull businesses and residents away from it. This is the one thing Charlotte will always have over us. Their private sector has always embraced downtown. Raleigh's government supports downtown, and Raleigh's voters want to improve downtown and build it up, but there's a disjoint between their views and the views of major developers in the Triangle still. That's a problem we need to do something more radical about.