one of the top mixed-use developments in north carolina is called north hills
on today's video we're going to take you on a walking tour and give you some insider local
knowledge about this landmark development in the heart of raleigh north carolina
hi this is chris morton real estate broker with exp realty in raleigh north carolina on today's
video we're going to tell you a little bit a lot bit about north hills which is a mixed-use
development in the heart of raleigh north carolina between downtown and north raleigh the whole area
has been renamed and redubbed midtown and this area is i have to tell you amazing completely just
about anything you can imagine is located within this giant complex there's restaurants there's
bars there's shops big box shops little mom and pop shops everything in between targets there
total wine and more is there about any service you can imagine is there including dry cleaning
two-story grocery store basically if you live in this complex or live anywhere within walking
distance you don't ever need a car and if you stay until the end we're going to give you
some insider information on three multi-billion yes billion with a b projects that are coming
in the next couple years around and inside of north hill so let's get started with this tour
right now so we're starting our tour on the park district side which was the site of the complex
that was built in 2010 on the left of this video you're seeing the coastal credit union
stage where there's musical acts and this astro turf quad is really really cool people use it
to host outdoor events watch the bands play obviously you can do picnics here
and there's also some outdoor classes like gym classes that are taught
on either side you're going to see some six story buildings these are apartment complexes
with residential above and commercial below and as you see they're shopping below commercial
we're now going to take a turn and go down towards one of the entrances of harris teeter which is the
grocery store in this area these are two-story like brown stone apartments that are part of
one of the apartment complexes there are four apartment complexes on the park district side so
plenty of places for you to live this is chewy's a really good mexican restaurant if you haven't
got one in your hometown definitely worth a try when you get here to
north hills more apartment complexes this building straight ahead was a hyatt place hotel
one of two hotels in the three hotels in the area so plenty of shopping plenty of restaurants
this kilwins is if you don't have one in your area they're mostly on the east coast ice cream
fudge cookies really awesome stuff park central one of the apartment complexes
vita vite is a two-story wine bar really really cool great place to hang out you can sit down
on the balcony and watch people out on the quad chill environment needless to say orange theory
i used to be a member here they kicked my butt it's tough um orange theory cycle bar
and a couple others you can have plenty of your gym activities going on
and get your healthy groove on midtown yoga another place to get your activities going and
this happy and hale is a really cool super healthy restaurant they've got a couple locations in town
one downtown local establishment so now we're going to turn and go towards the other side of
of the park district again more shopping another broken egg cafe really cool place for breakfast
or brunch gets really really busy on weekends construction continues they're building more
high rises in the on this side and again more restaurants and shopping world of beer
yard house are both here in this on the ground floor of this building
world of beer has about five million beers give or take 5 million yard house really good food there
and then we come around this is on the bottom floor this high rise is all
office grade a high-end really nice office
i just had a closing in this building really really pretty we're gonna take a tour of the
building in a little bit cowfish really great restaurant rose water another great restaurant
great brunch great dinner two really cool things cow fish you can get sushi and a burger at the
same time really really neat really like rosewater recommended if you guys come to give it a shot
brunch is amazing let me tell you and then we have stir which is a really cool restaurant oyster bar
they're famous for their cocktails and then the ac hotel another the hotels in the area and they have
level 7 which is you guessed it on the seventh floor of the complex it is a bar rooftop lounge
kind of vibe love this place lots of people come here during the day that are staying in the hotel
and get worked on like these two guys and of course we had to stop for a libation ourselves
really pretty upscale vibe great place to meet people and at night it gets really really hopping
and fun for locals either that live in raleigh or especially the people that
live in these apartments that straight ahead is dartmouth apartment complex another high rise
that the capital grille and stir is below so that's taking you a look back from the way we came
so you can see amazing views especially in the spring and summer
you would love to be out here enjoy things they do have heaters so you can definitely
be out here in the fall in the and the winter capital grill one of my favorite restaurants it
is a chain but they have a really good steak probably one of our favorite places to go
and we'll take you inside and give you an idea what the lobby of these um
office buildings i told you it was grade A and it truly is
definitely somewhere if you're looking for office space would be a very very good place to go
love sitting out on their capital grille bar there and they have it all enclosed right now
for the winter so now we're going to take the walk across the street this is six forks road
which is one of the main arteries in town in raleigh we're going to take a tour walk across
to get to the main district and this was the main part of north hills that really came online
in 2004 they tore down the old north hills mall kane realty did and developed all of this so you
have shopping you have restaurants just like you saw on the other side
the height requirements have recently changed on this side they before you couldn't build anything
above four or five stories and obviously they could build bigger on the other side there's your
starbucks one of three starbucks's in the area fox and the hounds is a nice restaurant warby parker
glasses and sunglasses if you don't know them that's very cool place definitely recommend they
came and came here about two years ago chick-fil-a you've got regal cinemas 14 screen theater
more restaurant shopping etc and then another astro
turf quad kids love to play in this area because in that same building that there's a starbucks
there's also a ben and jerry's and so kids like to hang out there especially the spring in the summer
there's the ben and jerry's now we're going to take a trip down the escalator to get to
target yep there is a target here and it has a grocery store in it just about anything you can
imagine that you need is in target including the number two of three starbucks's are in that target
we'll go head back upstairs back to the main level and go around the corner more shopping
renaissance hotel in front of you we're gonna talk about that in a minute
fitness connection uh two-story gym very very large gym it's been here since the very beginning
um of the complex in 2004 and tons of members great place to go work out
more shopping
so now we're going to go into the renaissance definitely top
grade level hotel if you've got anybody come into town or you yourself are in town and you want
top flight accommodations this is definitely a place you want to go
beautiful lobby then mason's lobster rolls one of my favorite places they have some really good
lobster rolls and you can get giant rolls or you can get regular sized people rolls i of course
i'm a pig i have to have the big rolls for just a little bit more money bartaco one
of my favorite restaurants in the complex you can get um 30 different kinds of tacos i guess
something in that range and you just pick each one it's sort of like tapas but with tacos really cool
and then around the corner is a temporary location for restoration hardware i say temporary because
again if you stay to the end i give you a teaser there's a mega
restoration hardware coming to this complex i can't wait
super excited one of very very few maybe 30 in the country is coming to north hill so super cool
so now we're going down more shopping
you see back towards the movie theaters and all of that sort of thing
we're gonna go around the corner and see more of what's going on over there
here on the corner on the left we just passed it wish you were here we do wish you were here
uh finx jewelers was on the corner it's a mainstay from the area been in raleigh
for many many years they moved to north hills probably seven or eight years ago
lily pulitzer more shopping beyond blue we just passed really quickly and then ethan allen
two of the furniture stores you can literally get everything you want from a toothbrush to
a sofa in north hills love it this is the old jcpenney building we're going to be talking about
that at the end of the video that's part of the teaser ruthe's chris
if the capital grill doesn't suit your fancy for steaks we got a ruthe's chris
now we're gonna go across the street to the lassiter at north hills district
gotta watch out for traffic there we go now we're going now this was originally here um
it was added on to and above these shops is the lassiter apartments but this was
a good bit of this complex was already here when kane realty came in and redeveloped everything
they bought this section in 1999 and this was sort of the precursor of everything going on so
you see more shops vivace great italian restaurant highly recommended definitely
recommend you give this place a try as well as you can tell i've spent a lot of time eating in
north hills great great place to go and it's super convenient for most people in raleigh so you kind
of go park your car and do your thing lassiter apartments that's how you get in the main door
there was a von keckle there hair salon really really good hair salon
more shopping across the street is sur la table i think it's the only one in the area now you know
you get it for go in for cookware all that sort of thing love that store great store
another gem pure barre i don't know how to pronounce that i apologize and then aladdin's
eatery is a really really nice little place for breakfast lunch grab a sandwich kind of thing
now we're going to go back up to the back side of the building
there's a alteration shop brothers cleaners great cleaner walgreens ups store again just about
anything you can imagine is in this place and then another of my favorite restaurants bonefish
i know it's a chain but they have great seafood i love the bang bang shrimp so definitely give
that a try when you get here chipotle chipotle panera bread right here after and then of course
no complex could be complete without you guessed it starbucks starbucks number three this one has
an outside fireplace which is really really cool bul box has just opened up brand new they were a
food truck and now they've got a location in north hills and then north north hills grill
lululemon great athletic wear total wine and more a great place for some wine again you don't ever
have to leave the complex it's crazy so now we're going to head you over to midtown exchange this
is a brand new not even built yet dining and entertainment district with convention space
it's almost with almost 800,000 square feet of conv office space you can see these two
office towers that attach it's gonna be crazy there's gonna be apartments condos senior living
seven acres of green space you can see all the water features that are here construction is
planned to be starting middle of 2021 and the first tower of those two office towers gonna be
ready late 2022 things are going to keep going and progressing until this thing is done i can't wait
for this to open it is not in north hills but it is pretty much attached to north hills very very
very exciting complex that they're going to have here condos that's a condo building there above
and there's those two beautiful office towers again the one of them will be ready late 2022.
really beautiful complex can't wait for this to come online
and this is just amazing very exciting again all the water features that you can
see you're going to be present in this lots of green space super cool this is going to
be a tavern there below with the um with the umbrellas it's on the site of the original
isaac's hunters isaac hunter's tavern which was the first one of the first buildings in raleigh
and they've managed to save some of the tavern they've discovered it found it and they're going
to be putting it into a museum i am being told so now we're moving over to the north hills
innovation district this is right behind all of that park central area that we looked at before
the vine apartments are already there there's going to be some new things coming online it's
a billion dollar project 33 acres there's going to be an office tower 5 which is going to be a
mixture of tech life science biotech office space etc this is the big branch food hall 20,000 square
foot food hall that's coming online really really cool this is all getting going in about 2023
and last but not least in the main district there's going to be the revitalization of
main district 400 million dollar project it's going to be on the side of that jcpenney's
i showed you earlier and their parking lot it's residential office ground floor retail
and a restoration hardware gallery it's going to come up here in a second on our video
it is a three-story restoration hardware there it is 50,000 square foot retail with a rooftop
restaurant there's very very few of these in the world this is just a rendering of what
it's going to look like once you can imagine how hot this is going to be when this finally comes
online they're going to start building this pretty much any middle of 2021 any day now
and it's scheduled to open 2023 again it's 33 acres 400 million dollar project
and there you have it beautiful beautiful beautiful complex there's the whole thing
including the current north hills and there's going to be
just an amazing view parking plenty of parking so instead of having a parking deck which is a really
large waste of spay a parking lot they're going to have the parking deck excuse me
so that was north hills i hope you enjoyed the tour please
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and with that being said this has been chris morton see you soon bye