“We believe these factors will continue to drive outsized growth for Raleigh/Durham as a whole as well as our specific submarket,” Bateman added. Its promising trajectory is highlighted by Apple’s plans to open a $1 billion East Coast campus just down the road from Haven at Patterson Place.” “With a diversified employment base focused on the medical, educational, life sciences, and technology sectors, Raleigh-Durham has a great economic foundation. “We were attracted to this opportunity because of the unique combination of quality construction and desirable location within the Durham market,” said Will Bateman, Director, StoneBridge Investments. The community’s convenient location at at 5110 Old Chapel Hill Road places it within easy reach of major employment centers as well as Raleigh-Durham International Airport. The community is less than a ten-minute drive from Duke University, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Research Triangle Park. The company now owns a portfolio of more than 1,000 units in the Research Triangle area.īuilt in 2002, Haven at Patterson Place is situated in the dynamic and high growth South Durham market. This is Stonebridge’s fourth acquisition in the Raleigh/Durham market. The new ownership plans a comprehensive renovation program to include modernization of common areas and grounds as well as upgrades of unit interiors. Howard Jenkins and Kevin Kempf of CBRE Southeast Multifamily represented the seller, an affiliate of Washington, DC-based FCP. StoneBridge Investments of Washington, DC, has acquired Haven at Patterson Place, a 242-unit rental apartment community in Durham, NC, for $56.2 million. I am suggesting that the meanings ascribed to salsa music and dancing shape the spaces of pleasure and inclusion for some while defining spaces of exclusion for others within the Latin music scene in the Triangle.StoneBridge Investments acquired Haven at Patterson Place, a 242-unit rental apartment community in Durham, North Carolina, for $56.2 million. Examining the interactions between participants within this salsa scene elucidates the power dynamics involved when staking claims to legitimacy, authenticity, expert knowledge, and social and cultural capital. This process results in what I refer to as the bifurcated salsa scene. salsa On-1, Mambo On-2, Cuban style salsa), therefore the micro-geographies of movement allow for the mobility of bodies through particular constructed communities. Communities of dancers are constructed around the ways in which the body responds to the salsa rhythm (i.e. Following an ethnographic exploration of salsa clubs, I argue that salsa mediates subtle forms of territoriality. In this paper, I complicate notions of salsa as strictly a unifying force by arguing that the meanings ascribed to salsa music and the way these meanings are expressed through the body within clubs in the Triangle area (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill) of North Carolina also creates divisions among actors of the salsa and broader Latin music scene. Salsa music and dance is considered by practitioners to be a unifier-a global phenomenon that brings people from diverse backgrounds together in the same space for mutual enjoyment. The notion that salsa music has/knows neither race nor color is commonly held by salsa musicians, dancers, and avid listeners. RTP thus created a blueprint for subsequent development strategies-later promoted by Florida, among other scholars and consultants-that made arts, education, and other cultural institutions central to the marketing of a city’s “brand” or identity. The essay argues that local boosters emphasized the area’s cultural opportunities and intellectual climate as major quality-of-life considerations not only for high-tech companies, but the scientists and engineers that they hoped to employ. In the 1950s, a powerful coalition of academics, businesspeople, and politicians launched a plan to move the state away from its traditional reliance on low-wage industries by founding a research park between Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, believing that scientific firms would value the park’s proximity to several nearby colleges and universities. It aims to historicize urban theorist Richard Florida’s influential formulation of the “creative class” by focusing on the emergence of a high-tech economy in North Carolina’s Research Triangle metropolitan area. This article is forthcoming in the Journal of Urban History.
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