Raleigh has opened Parkside Apartments, a 144-home affordable housing community near Western Boulevard and a future BRT corridor. The bond-funded project includes homes for families earning 30% to 80% of area median income.

A 12-story, 2,195-bed student housing tower is opening near NC State, dramatically changing Raleigh’s Hillsborough Street skyline.

The Triangle's office market is thawing, but the recovery is favoring Raleigh's best-located buildings over a broad comeback.