Raleigh is known for drawing in startups and companies due to the city’s close proximity to multiple major research universities producing top talent + low costs of living in the area.
The offices of the top companies headquartered here are known to house some over-the-top features — including ping pong tables, local cold brew on tap, and a giant pink dinosaur sculpture. (Looking at you, Pendo.)
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Take a deeper look at 5 of the biggest Raleigh-based companies here:
Pendo
• Employees: 547
• Location: 150 Fayetteville St. (Though a new HQ is coming soon.)
• HQ size: 2.5 floors of the tower
• FunFact: Pendo names its conference rooms after southern foods, so employees meet each other for board meetings in places the Cole Slaw room.
Red Hat
• Local employees: 2,500
• Location: 100 East Davie St.
• HQ size: 366,000 sqft
• FunFact: You can buy a literal red hat from the company’s Cool Stuff Store.
Bandwidth
• Employees: 772
• Location: 900 Main Campus Dr.
• HQ size: 20-30,000 sqft
• FunFact: Bandwidth already has plans to build a much bigger HQ building, located near Blue Ridge Rd. by 2023.
Advance Auto Parts
• Local employees: 700
• Location: 4006 Market at North Hills St.
• HQ size: 218,000 sqft
• FunFact: CEO Tom Greco was named Triangle Business Journal’s 2019 Business Person of the Year.
SAS
• Local employees: 5,567
• Location: 100 SAS Campus Dr., Cary (While it’s not technically Raleigh, SAS has an entire campus, and Cary has a little more room for that.)
• HQ size: 900-acre campus with several buildings
• FunFact: SAS’s campus has walking trails, solar panels, and an indoor pool. |
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Weather
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ComingSoon
○ Cape Fear Seafood Company is opening in Village District (formerly Cameron Village) on Monday at 2018 Clark Ave. The restaurant opened in Raleigh in 2019 on Spring Forest Rd., but the owners feel like this location is more of a destination. 🦀 (Triangle Business Journal)
○ Raleigh-based bar Dram and Draught is opening a new location in Durham, likely this summer, and is also expanding to Cary next year. Check them out in Durham in the Chesterfield building + in Cary at a rooftop bar in the Fenton development. (WRAL)
Transit
○ RDU is gaining more nonstop flights through American Airlines — this time to Destin and Fort Walton Beach, Orlando + Nashville starting in June. Last month, American announced it would resume nonstop service to Austin, TX. ✈ (Triangle Business Journal)
○ The scooters are coming back, Raleigh. The city is currently negotiating agreements with 3 e-scooter companies as part of a larger effort to improve transportation in the local area. 🛴
(WUNC)
Arts
○ An art exhibit featuring artists with disabilities is on display in The Block Gallery in downtown Raleigh’s Municipal Building through Fri., May 14. The Art Unblocked Exhibit was organized by Arts Access, a nonprofit in NC working to make the arts more accessible to artists with disabilities. 🎨 (The Daily Tar Heel)
Civic
○ The City of Raleigh is asking for community input and help selecting the next chief of police. Your responses will be anonymous, and the survey is due Fri., May 14. Take it in either English or Spanish.
○ The 2019 Raleigh Data Book is now available to the public, and it’s full of information + statistics on demographics, land use, economic development and more. Check it out for yourself here. 📈
Jobs
○ Home Depot is hiring 570 positions in the Raleigh area to meet demand for this year’s busy spring season. The roles will focus on customer service, filling online orders, unpacking overnight freight + merchandising. Apply here. (ABC11)
Drink
○ Lowes Foods is launching Virtual Beer Hunt, where beer enthusiasts can find special boxes in all Lowes Foods Beer Dens with 5 beers from a partnering brewery + more — then stream a virtual beer tasting with the brewery. April’s tasting is Sat., April 17 with NoDa (from CLT); May’s will ft. Edmund’s Oast; June’s will ft. Westbrook (both from CHS). 🍻Ⓟ
Wellness
○ DYK the difference between Botox and filler? The local experts at Triangle Facial Plastic Surgery break down each procedure and what patients can expect after treatment. Learn more. Ⓟ
TryThis
○ Tired of tossing your groceries? Here are 5 easy ways you can reduce food waste in your kitchen. 🗑️Ⓟ
Stay up to date with Triangle coronavirus-related resources below.
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North Hills Raleigh has a new mural on the side of Park Central apartments that’s perfect for your next Instagram post. Artist Jon Leonardo painted #ACallForKindness as a part of Inside Verizon’s initiative to spread positivity in the community. ❤️
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Talk
○ Business of Women | Thurs., Apr. 15 | 12–1:15 p.m. | Virtual or Cary Chamber of Commerce, 307 N. Academy St., Cary | $25 | An Exercise Physiologist at WakeMed will talk about confidence and preparing your body for summer.
Civic
○ Appearance Commission | Thurs., Apr. 15 | 4:30–6:30 p.m. | Virtual | Free | This meeting is open to the public and invites feedback from the community related to the visual quality + aesthetics of Raleigh.
○ Criminal Justice Debt Program Advisory Committee Meeting | Thurs., Apr. 15 | 11 a.m. | Virtual | Free | The Town of Chapel Hill will hold a public meeting about the Criminal Justice Debt Program.
○ Greenway Committee | Thurs., Apr. 15 | 6–8 p.m. | Virtual | Free | If you have something you would like to say about the greenways in Cary, view the meeting agenda to sign up for citizen comment.
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