2800 North Roxboro
I hope Gary doesn't mind me encroaching on his territory, and i really hope he's able to shed more light on this in the future, but one of my favorite north Durham buildings is being, er, renovated.
That's the Bragtown Trading post, at the NE corner of Roxboro and Maynard, in the 2800 block of N. Roxboro. It's been a second hand store as long as i can recall, with a distinctly biker ambience. I'm pretty sure that Ink Slingers tattoo parlor, currently in the 1400 block of Avondale, used to live on this corner as well.
No idea what LTH Investments, the current owner of the property, has planned for that corner. Hopefully it's not another pawn shop/fast food complex. (Here's a thought: You can go to the city's mapping web page, and click on the property to find out who owns it. You can also, with one click, get a list of who owns the adjacent properties. But you can't find out what other properties around town are owned by the same people or companies. That seems like an easy fix for a good programmer, no?) Roxboro St., from south Durham up to 147, through downtown, up to I-85, and then to Carver, Infinity, and beyond*, is just crying out for a streetcar/trolley system in the Durham of the future. It's going to be an incredibly important, and most likely valuable, corridor with just the slightest nudges from our planners in the right direction of walkability and transit. It's not too early to start getting it right.
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* - It's entirely possible that the whole purpose of this blog has been to give me the opportunity to make that pun.
That's the Bragtown Trading post, at the NE corner of Roxboro and Maynard, in the 2800 block of N. Roxboro. It's been a second hand store as long as i can recall, with a distinctly biker ambience. I'm pretty sure that Ink Slingers tattoo parlor, currently in the 1400 block of Avondale, used to live on this corner as well.
No idea what LTH Investments, the current owner of the property, has planned for that corner. Hopefully it's not another pawn shop/fast food complex. (Here's a thought: You can go to the city's mapping web page, and click on the property to find out who owns it. You can also, with one click, get a list of who owns the adjacent properties. But you can't find out what other properties around town are owned by the same people or companies. That seems like an easy fix for a good programmer, no?) Roxboro St., from south Durham up to 147, through downtown, up to I-85, and then to Carver, Infinity, and beyond*, is just crying out for a streetcar/trolley system in the Durham of the future. It's going to be an incredibly important, and most likely valuable, corridor with just the slightest nudges from our planners in the right direction of walkability and transit. It's not too early to start getting it right.
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* - It's entirely possible that the whole purpose of this blog has been to give me the opportunity to make that pun.
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we drove by that yesterday. it's a sad mess.
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Anonymous, at 10:23 AM
I live down the street on Colonial Village side of Maynard, and it's been very sad watching those buildings go down. I'd always loved them, and wish they had been able to use them instead of tear them down. Hopefully something useful and attractive will go in there.
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Anonymous, at 10:20 AM
I've always wondered about the origin of the name for Infinity Rd. Anyone know?
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Anonymous, at 4:16 PM
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