Wilmington, Hargett, and the Arrow

by John Morris in Cityscape on 09/9/2008
2 Comments

In addition to Wilmington and Hargett Streets, the Mysterious Arrow is visible in the photo above. I have no idea what its purpose is, but my long running guess is that at one point in time it was pointing to a green area for helicopters to land in should they experience trouble and need an emergency landing in the downtown area.

There is a tree in the center of the court yard when viewed from satellite imagery, so it doesn’t look like a helicopter could land there today.

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2 Comments:

Mark Turner
09/15/2008

Its not likely to be for helicopters. The courtyard’s too cluttered for that. And why put an arrow on the roof when you could put on a landing pad instead?

I suppose the building’s owner might be able to shed some light on the Arrow.

Raleigh Boy
09/15/2008

I’ll go ahead and throw this out about helicopters>> there was a helipad on the flat roof of the old civic center (or, one was originally planned to be, I think. Never saw a helicopter on the roof, though.) Maybe this was a directional for that??

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