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Barnes & Noble (Crabtree) 222 Condos Downtown Raleigh Alliance Person Street Pharmacy Sawasdee Thai 510 Glenwood Raleigh Times Bar HILLSBOROUGH ST./NCSU GLENWOOD SOUTH Oakwood Bed & Breakfast POWERHOUSE DISTRICT Carolina Ballet office Park Devereux Sitti Second Empire Restaurant Sullivan’s Steakhouse (foyer) Gallery C Napper Tandy’s Q Shack (North Hills) The Cotton Mill Hamlin Drugs Campbell Law School lobby 510 Glenwood business foyer NC Museum of History 42nd Street Glo de Vie Medspa (North Hills) The Paramount Morning Times WRAL-TV5 lobby 510 Glenwood (sidewalk) NC Dept. of Labor Natty Greene’s Whole Foods Palladium Plaza French | West | Vaughn Irregardless Café Raleigh Wine Shop (sidewalk) NC Dept. of Agriculture Mantra Indian Cuisine Margaux’s Celebrating Great Years in Downtown by Crash Gregg, Publisher owntown Raleigh, November 2005. Fayette- 7country moving closer to downtowns. So much so, interviews and event coverage, and much more. With ville Street was Fayetteville Mall, there were that for the fi rst time in a century, most of America’s all the new copies we’ll be delivering in Durham, Wake only a handful of restaurants and bars, and largest cities are growing at a faster rate than the sur- Forest, Apex and Cary starting in January, we’ll be dou- Dfoot traffi c on a weekend night was nearly non-exis- rounding suburbs. Urban dwellers—mainly younger bling our 72,000-plus readership each month to a stag- tent. But my brother Randall Gregg, business part- renters, but homeowners as well—are fl ocking back gering 10,000-plus readers monthly. We can’t wait to ner Sig Hutchinson and I all felt something in the air to areas where a highly concentrated hub of activi- write about and promote all the diff erent downtowns in downtown; times were changing and it was coming ties is within a short distance. To a growing segment the Triangle and bring a new cohesiveness to the entire soon. Our fi rst issue hit the streets with quiet fanfare of society, the ownership of large-lot McMansions area. More awareness helps create more business and that same month and all 10,000 issues were quickly with two-car garages in a suburban maze far from a better economy for our entire community. It’s a win- snatched up before the Christmas the urban landscape no longer rep- win situation for everyone. issue came out. We’ve been lucky resents the American dream. Young We asked a few of downtown’s leaders, advocates to have a nearly 100 percent pickup adults are delaying careers, marriage and innovators to share their opinion of the Down- rate from the beginning, which and children in preference of proxim- towner. We couldn’t be prouder of what they had to say shows just how much people love ity to jobs, entertainment and social and are humbled to be able to provide downtown with reading about downtown. activities, short-term commitments a singular voice. It’s hard to believe we’re already on housing, and the public transpor- celebrating the 7th anniversary tation and bike/pedestrian paths that “Downtown Raleigh has trans- of the Downtowner this month. shuffl e them between both. A smaller formed over the past several Within the last seven years, we’ve demographic of empty-nest baby years and the success of the seen more than a hundred new For seven wonderful years, boomers who still lead an active life- Raleigh Downtowner has con- businesses, restaurants and bars style are also choosing to move closer tributed to the success of that the Downtowner has been set up shop in downtown Raleigh, to downtown, attracted by the same transformation. Th e magazine the re-opening of Fayetteville making us aware of the benefi ts as their younger counter- off ers a wealth of information Street in 2006 with its event-cen- many things that make parts. Studies show that urban dwell- about downtown events, res- tric City Plaza, the construction of our city so very special! ers tend to walk and bike more, allow- taurants and other entertain- Nancy McFarlane PNC (formerly RBC) Plaza tower, ing them to be more physically active ments and has helped to attract and the re-birth and busy renais- Ira David Wood III and become my socially engaged. residents and visitors to experience all that downtown sance of Wilmington, Hargett, Th ese residents tend to be healthier Raleigh has to off er. Th e fact that the magazine is free Martin, Davie, and Salisbury Streets, as well as Glen- and happier than their suburban counterparts. also means that all of our citizens and visitors have wood Avenue south. Retail is still on a slow upswing, Th eDowntowner itself has seen a lot of change these access to great information about downtown events and but with the recent opening of DECO Raleigh and past seven years.