Northern Arc BRT Station Area Planning – Crabtree Valley and Glenwood Place

Conceptual TOD plan for Crabtree Valley and Glenwood Place

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This is part six of a series that will explore the possibilities of TOD (Transit Oriented Development) for the logical 5th line of Raleigh’s BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) system. Check out the intro and overview of the line from two years ago (yes, I’ve been slacking  ), here.

The Old Raleigh Village and Glenlake stations provide an opportunity to create walkable infill. They also make the most of a large shopping center surface lot.

Station	Station Area Plan
Western Blvd	Western Blvd
Chapel Hill Rd	Chapel Hill Rd
Arena / Stadium Complex	Realizing the Potential of Raleigh’s Arena / Stadium Site
Bandwidth / UNC Rex South / UNC Rex North	Bandwith / UNC Rex
Old Raleigh Village	Old Raleigh Village / Glenlake
Glenlake	Old Raleigh Village / Glenlake
Crabtree Valley	YOU ARE HERE!
Glenwood Place	YOU ARE HERE!
North Hills, North Hills ID / Midtown Exchange	Coming Soon
Midtown	Coming Soon
Capital North / Raleigh Blvd	Coming Soon
New Bern	Coming Soon

Today, Crabtree Valley Mall dominates the landscape. While the floodplain makes it hard to actually redevelop this site and the mall is rather well doing in terms of malls these days, it’s fun to imagine what this area could look like as a dense mixed-use town center.

In the future, replacing the mall with a mixed-use district with a grid system, park space, commercial space, and 1000s of residential units would serve as a catalyst to set the BRT line up for success.

The main district would also be flanked by additional mid-rise developments in vacant parcels and increased offer connectivity by way of trails and roadways.

The BRT line would then join I-440 along a dedicated guideway to make a stop by Glenwood Place before continuing on to North Hills and Midtown Raleigh.

NOTE: I do not own, control, have actual say, etc over any of the proposed redevelopment parcels. This is just an idea and just a sketch.

Stay tuned over the coming months as we’ll work through all of the stations along the corridor.

FURTHER READING

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Phil Veasley is a Professional Engineer and CNU accredited member working to design safer multimodal infrastructure in cities throughout the US.

My goal is to create cities that are safe and effective for all people to move about outside of cars. To achieve that we have to focus on creating equitable, dense, and vibrant cities full of walkable neighborhoods with a various mix of housing choices, schools, restaurants, transit, and services. We cannot have safe multimodal infrastructure without the density to support it and we cannot have equitable density without safe multimodal infrastructure. Outside of designing safe streets, my passions are sketching ideas for infill neighborhoods, floor plans, urban photography, and exploring our cities on foot or bike. Please check out the menus above for all of my ideas and also check out my YouTube, Instagram,  BlueSky Social, and Twitter accounts.

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