The first photo published to this blog – a multi-exposure photo of myself taken at the Municipal Building in 2005

After more than five years of writing about and taking photographs of a city I’m in love with, it’s time for me to wind down my contributions to this blog.

I’ve made Raleigh home for the past eight years, but will soon call somewhere else home. This means that I can no longer continue posting here on a regular basis, and I’m turning over Goodnight Raleigh to our long time Editor and Historian, Raleigh Boy.

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As you may have heard, the team at New Raleigh have decided to stop publishing:

New Raleigh was created as a way to celebrate and support localism and highlight the many individual contributions to the growing city. We think we succeeded at a scale we never could have imagined. While that love for Raleigh has never faded – the time to stop publishing New Raleigh has come. We are excited to move our focus to new professional projects and growing families.

New Raleigh has been one of the leading contributors to the renaissance of Downtown Raleigh for more than five years. Their work toward fostering culture, entertainment, night life, and civic pride rank up there with the reopening of Fayetteville Street to auto traffic in 2005, First Fridays, and the Hopscotch Festival. There will be a giant hole in cultural discussion and news now that they’ve stopped publishing, and will be sorely missed.

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One of the very few noteworthy structures on Wake Forest Road near the beltline is set to be razed. The 1960s era former Fire Station Four above will soon be replaced with a mattress store.

The old fire station is home to Oak City Coffee Roasters, and the company is having an open house on Saturday. If you’d like to see how coffee is roasted or just see the old fire station before it’s destroyed, now is your chance.

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