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Goodnight Raleigh does an amazing job – yet again – of giving us the history and current life of Person Street in pictures.
From downtown, it travels one-way into the Mordecai neighborhood. An uneventful trip until you reach Krispy Kreme donuts, where Peace Street dead-ends and a grappling strip of seemingly random businesses and out-of-businesses begins.
That pretty much sums it up from the outside. But looking inside a few of the doors you’ll find businesses, established and new, striving to be less distant relatives to the booming growth of downtown Raleigh, and more a legitimate part of the family.
#549, at the corner of peace and person: Krispy Kreme’s icing on the donut: Cheerwine-cream filled donuts and a run-till-you-puke-donut-glaze annual race that attracted ~7500 people and raised $100,000 for NC Children’s Hospital this year.
#618, at the corner of person and pace: From pizza pie to Piebird, this lunch and dinner biz moved in after Conti’s Italian Market moved out. Tear. A curried chicken “hand-pie” + a side is $6.50. A chicken pot pie entree runs you $11. And a slice a sweet pie is $5.50. The first annual Raleigh Oktoberfest is happening across the street, Sat. Oct 1.
Person Street Pharmacy is next door… and there used to be a bulk order/catering company across the street but I don’t see ANY information online… out of business?
Then there’s a slight scattering of others including Marsh Woodwinds and Nicole’s Art Gallery before you’ve run out of road and residential Mordecai pops up before Capital Blvd.
Marsh Woodwinds Upstairs hosts a literary and performance event this Saturday evening at 8pm. Organized by Scott Huler — the Piedmont Laureate — the One & One Festival will present writers and musicians who read/play an original piece AND then one by someone they admire. Free admission, free food and BYOB.*
*not a Piedmont Laureate program event
