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Did you know Raleigh is one of the fastest growing cities in America?
This driving tour goes through most of the greater downtown Raleigh area. We start off on the south end of town on Saunders Street and on McDowell Street.
The video was recorded at 11:15 am on Saturday, October 13, 2019.
We visit Raleigh's new Warehouse District, which has tech startups, and the Carolina Art Museum. We pass both Moore Square and Nash Square and head down to Fayetteville Street, home to restaurants and bars.
We then drive down Blount Street, Wilmington Street, and take Edenton Road to Glenwood Avenue, where we see bars, restaurants and shopping on Glenwood.
We end the tour on Boylan Street Bridge near Raleigh's Amtrak Station.
If you're looking to move to Raleigh, considering Raleigh real estate or wanting to travel to Raleigh, this video is for you.
Raleigh North Carolina is a booming city. The capital of the Tarheel State, it’s population is about 470,000 people, and it’s one of the fastest growing cities in America. Many people are moving here from all over the country. If you’ve been here you can see why. North Carolina’s climate is mild most of the year, and the cost of living is actually very reasonable.
In this video, we’re going to cruise through downtown Raleigh and visit a few of this city’s downtown neighborhoods.
We’re going to enter Raleigh from the south end of town and make a left and head west towards the up and coming warehouse district. A decade ago, this part of downtown was all but forgotten about, but tech companies swooped in and turned this into the hippest part of downtown. Restaurants, coffee shops, condos and retail has followed.
Raleigh is known as Oak City due to the large number of Oak Trees located thoughout the city. It’s the second largest city in the state, behind Charlotte, which has a population of nearly 900,000 people.
We’re going to make a left onto Fayetteville Street, which is the main drag downtown. There is lots of new development downtown, especially in regards to office space and housing. One criticism of downtown Raleigh is the lack of shopping. While there are bars and restaurants lining this part of downtown, there aren’t many places to shop.
For many, Raleigh is the perfect city. It’s clean, there aren’t homeless people sleeping on its streets, and parking is actually not too hard to find.
This is Raleigh’s newest park to open. This is Moore Square, which was recently given a major facelift. It’s been very popular since it re-opened less than two months ago.
This is Wilmington Street, which has perhaps the grungiest feel of any area of downtown.
As we leave downtown proper, we’re going to pass the state capital building here on the left.
We’re going to head west and then north, and make our way to Glenwood Avenue.
Glenwood Avenue is Raleigh’s version of Bourbon Street. As you can see, it’s very crowded, as there isn’t a square inch of Glenwood Avenue that isn’t taken up by a restaurant, bar, coffee shop or hip, cool new trendy place to be.
During the daytime, it’s very walkable and pleasant. Come back here after 10 pm, and its hoardes of college kids from NC State, cars cruising up and down, and quite overwhelming.
We’ll take a turn away from Glenwood Avenue to quickly give you an idea of the amount of construction that’s going on in Raleigh. You actually can’t go very far in and around the Raleigh downtown area without seeing construction. It truly is booming here and they can’t build condos and office buildings fast enough to keep up with demand.
As we leave Raleigh, we look out over the city and see Raleigh’s newly refurbished Amtrak station in the foreground.
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