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DOWNTOWN EAATS ISAAC HUNTER’S SIGN UP TO WIN! Gravy’s new chef TAVERN IS BACK Win free tickets, Tony Fusco makes a 200 years later and gift certificates mean plate of pasta better than ever... READER and more REWARDS RALEIGHDOWNTOWNERMAGAZINE—VOL. 5, ISSUE 12 features 3. Downtown Raleigh Wish List 5. Downtown Wishes from People on the Street 12. Discover Hillsborough Street! 14. Bartender to Bartender 12 ½ East Hargett Street | Raleigh, NC 27601 15. Historic Yates Mill www.RaleighDowntowner.com | www.raleigh2.com 20. Local History: Signs of the Times—The Art of Business Exhibit Opening 919.821.9000 22. NCSU Threads Fashion Show a Big Success Advertising inquiries: arts & entertainment [email protected] 23. Band Profile: Café Mars General press releases: 25. The Deep South Local Music Review [email protected] 30. Calendar of Events B-to-B press releases and biz section info: food & wine [email protected] General office inquiries: 8. Downtown Dining: Gravy [email protected] 10. Nightlife: Isaac Hunter’s Oak City Tavern ———— 18. Let’s Do Lunch: Peace China Publisher/Owner Crash Gregg Founders Sig Hutchinson, Randall Gregg business Food Editor Fred Benton 21. Government News Assistant food Editor Brian Adornetto 25. Downtown Snapshot from the Downtown Raleigh Alliance Copy Editor Melissa Santos 28. Business Profile: Met-Tech, Inc. Music Editor Dan Strobel 29. New Downtown Businesses Senior Writer Peter Eichenberger Lead Designer Katie Severa Assistant Designer Kalesia Kuenzel Office Assistant Lauren Wiley Account Manager Chris Moutos Photographer Ted Salamone, Darryl Morrow, Max Cohen ———— The Downtowner is a local monthly print magazine dedicated to cover- ON THE LEFT age of downtown Raleigh. Our online publication encompasses down- town and the surrounding area. The current print issue, ad rates/media Much has changed in downtown kit, rack locations and archived issues are available at Raleigh since 1880 when this oxcart www.RaleighDowntowner.com carried materials to surrounding con- © Copyright 2005-2010, Downtown Raleigh Publishing, LLC. The name, logo, and any struction. How different will downtown logo iterations of the Raleigh Downtowner, Raleigh Downtowner Magazine and the appear to Raleigh Downtowner Maga- Downtowner D graphic are a TM of Downtown Raleigh Publishing LLC. No part of this publication may be reproduced without express written permission. zine readers 100 years from now? FRONT COVER AND LEFT PHOTO COURTESY NC STATE ARCHIVES Distribution Locations These are just a few of the places Palladium Plaza French | West | Vaughn Clarion Hotel Hibernian FIVE POINTS/HAYES BARTON Tir Na Nog Irish Pub where the Downtowner is avail- The Hudson Landmark Tavern YMCA Hillsborough Street Sauced Pizza Hayes Barton Pharmacy Big Ed’s (sidewalk) able each month. With our 98%+ West at North Sheraton Hotel info desk Theatre in the Park Pourch/Bassment Hayes Barton Cafe and Dessertery pickup rate, many locations run RBC Plaza Progress Energy building lobby Beansprout Restaurant Catch 22 Nofo @ the Pig POWERHOUSE DISTRICT out after just a few weeks. If Cooper’s BBQ Sushi Blues / Zely & Ritz (sidewalk) Rialto Napper Tandy’s you can’t find a copy, visit our DOWNTOWN Capital City Club lounge CAMERON VILLAGE Helios Café (sidewalk) Third Place Coffee 42nd Street website and read the current PDF In all Raleigh Rickshaws Progress Energy Building Harris Teeter/Suntrust Bank Salon 21 Lilly’s Pizza available online. You can catch commissary BB&T The Cupcake Bakery Shoppe J. Edwin’s Salon Wake County Courthouse WAREHOUSE DISTRICT up on past issues too. Raleigh City Council Building Fins Capital Bank Primp SalonBar Hayes Barton Salon If you have suggestions for Carolina Café Cameron Village Library Fly Salon Flying Saucer Bar Raleigh Chamber of Commerce The Pit Restaurant another location where you’d like Office of the Secretary of State Crema Village Draft House Lee Hansley Gallery SEABOARD STATION to see the Downtowner, email us at Spize York Companies Bliss Salon Jibarra Restaurant North Carolina Theatre office Seaboard Imports Deep South—The Bar [email protected]. Broadway Series South box office Raleigh Visitors Center Village Deli Revolver Boutique Seaboard Fitness We love hearing from our readers! Raleigh Urban Design Center Great Outdoor Provision Company Seaboard Wine Empire Properties HILLSBOROUGH ST./NCSU Foster’s HISTORIC DISTRICT 18 Seaboard (sidewalk) MIDTOWN/N. RALEIGH DOWNTOWN CONDOS Raleigh City Museum Second Empire Restaurant Legislative Building cafe Ace Hardware Barnes & Noble (Crabtree) The Dawson Downtown Raleigh Alliance WRAL-TV5 lobby GLENWOOD SOUTH Peace Street Pharmacy Galatea Borders Bookstore (Creekside) 510 Glenwood Raleigh Times Bar Porter’s Restaurant (sidewalk) Sullivan’s Steakhouse (foyer) Oakwood Bed & Breakfast Carolina Ballet office Park Devereux Sitti Irregardless Café 510 Glenwood business foyer NC Museum of History Capstrat Advertising MOORE SQUARE Q Shack (North Hills) The Cotton Mill Gravy Char-Grill (sidewalk) 510 Glenwood (sidewalk) NC Dept. of Labor Artspace The Paramount Morning Times Goodnight’s Comedy Club Mellow Mushroom NC Dept. of Agriculture Duck and Dumpling Downtown Raleigh Wish List by Chris Moutos hether you’re a native, a transplant the same about their experience here? In other According to City Council At-Large member Wor a frequent visitor, it’s hard not words, what would be on downtown Raleigh’s Russ Stephenson, “We need to leverage the cur- to notice how much Raleigh has wish list to not only make people visit but keep rent down economy to plan wisely and use this changed over the past few years. Th is growth has them coming back? slow period to look further ahead and think garnered plenty of national attention as well as “I walked an urban greenway in Minneapolis outside the business-as-usual box. In down- impressive “Best of” accolades from the likes of and thought, ‘What a great idea to bring back to town and throughout the city, we need to focus the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, Men’s Raleigh.’ It’s one more way to promote healthy growth in transit district redevelopments and Health, and many others. living, multiple transportation models and our expand broad transit access benefi ts which Prosperous downtowns fi ll their entire com- exceptional greenways and park,” c om m e nt e d means we would need to work for a countywide munity with energy and life and are the measure Mary-Ann Baldwin, Council Member At-Large. funding referendum.” of a healthy city. Downtown Raleigh is more Philip Isley, who served on city council for than just the state capital. It has become the epi- eight years says, “I would like to see the Edison center of cultural, economic, governmental, and project that is proposed by Gregg Sandreuter, social activity for the region, and our city plan- President of Hamilton Merritt, get started in ners should be commended for fi nding avenues 2010.” When asked about downtown Raleigh’s for this vitality to emerge. However, we cannot future, Sandreuter was excited to point out that focus on what has been done, but look ahead “Raleigh’s ability to attract major companies is to the future for even bigger and better ideas better than ever. Raleigh is in a healthy adoles- on what we can still accomplish. Meetings and cence. We are 20 years behind other cities in the charrettes have been held to inspire “big ideas” redevelopment of our urban core but have been for downtown1, both from offi cials and citizens working hard the past fi ve years to catch up.” alike. We asked city offi cials and developers According to Sandreuter, “Th e uniqueness what might be on their “downtown wish list” to of the Edison site and its proximity next to a help shape an even brighter future for not only Fortune 500 company headquarters (Progress downtown but Raleigh as a city. Energy) and the RBC’s U.S. headquarters puts Energy equals success. Success not only Th e Edison, a four-tower $400M to be built between us in a great place to attract the headquarters translates into lively, destination and event-fi lled Blount and Wilmington Streets, is planned to include location for a major company so the project venues for the people and visitors of its city but offi ce, retail, condominiums, and hotel rooms. can begin.” also successful community and economic ben- Greg Hatem also believes that downtown efi ts. While many citizens are unaware of the “I would also like to see improvements to the Raleigh can attract a major headquarters. “People positive community impact this may have, plan- gateways into downtown, making them visu- want to be in Raleigh,” he says. “In order for that ners and economists are very much alert to the ally appealing, safer for pedestrians and bicy- to happen, we not only need a better vision but opportunities when a city core has a spectrum clists, and more livable. Our current gateways do also a plan for once they’re here. Most impor- of options. not celebrate or invite people to the city center tantly, we need to take care of them and keep any Raleigh is lucky to have city leaders who are and can appear drab and depressing. Let’s take promises we make.” Asked about his ideas on turning our city into one that improves the qual- advantage of our natural resources and create a transportation, Hatem states, “We need transit- ity of life and the environment. It makes sense Raleigh destination like a downtown waterway oriented development before the development that we develop our public streets and make and greenway,” she continues. “I hate that I have gets here, and we should use this slow economic them more than just a medium of transporta- to drive to the mall to buy things as simple as a time to our advantage.” But what about his per- tion.