A familiar parking lot in Raleigh's North Hills could soon trade asphalt for apartments, as Kane Realty has filed site plans for a 15-story residential tower at 4000 Center at North Hills Street, tucked between RH Raleigh and the One North Hills office building. The proposal calls for a new mid-rise block of housing stacked over street-level retail that would noticeably reshape the look and feel of the Main District.
Plan details and company response
According to Axios Raleigh, the site plan outlines roughly 246 apartments, about 18,000 square feet of ground-floor retail, and a parking deck with 483 spaces. The filing indicates the full building would top more than 500,000 square feet. Kane Realty has not responded to requests for comment, and Axios reports that no construction timeline has been released, so for now the project is more blueprint than building.
Rezoning cleared the way
The timing is not accidental. Roughly two and a half months ago, the Raleigh City Council signed off on a rezoning that opened parts of North Hills to taller construction, a move that drew neighborhood pushback over traffic and potential shadowing, as reported by WUNC News. That vote created a patchwork of height allowances across multiple parcels, giving developers added flexibility in how they layer housing over retail and parking.
Part of a much bigger pipeline
As outlined in a planning packet from the City of Raleigh, the new tower is just one piece of a larger North Hills buildout. Kane is advancing several major projects there, including Tributary, St. Albans Lofts, Channel House and The Strand, which together account for more than a thousand apartments at various stages of design or construction. Kane Breaks Ground on Tributary, and The Strand moved into construction last year, according to REBusiness Online. In other words, the North Hills skyline is not exactly in a holding pattern.
Neighbors and next steps
Residents have not been shy about their worries over how fast all this is happening. Local coverage of council hearings captured concerns about traffic, day-to-day livability, and the overall pace of change in North Hills, themes that surfaced repeatedly during the rezoning debate, according to ABC11. The newly filed site plan now heads into the city’s technical review and permitting gauntlet, a process the City of Raleigh says must be completed before any construction can begin. For neighbors, that means plenty of paperwork before any cranes show up, but the direction of travel for North Hills seems clear enough.
