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Description: Revitalizing downtown Raleigh is key to the city's pandemic rebound plans, but with many offices still vacant, the central business district isn't bouncing back as quickly as many hoped.

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Revitalizing downtown Raleigh is key to the city's pandemic rebound plans, but with many offices still vacant, the central business district isn't bouncing back as quickly as many hoped.

BACK TO YOU. >>> THE KEY TO A REBOUND DOWNTOWN RALEIGH WILL BE GETTING WORKERS BACK INTO THEIR OFFICES. OFFICE SPACE MAKES UP NEARLY HALF OF THE REAL ESTATE DOWNTOWN. 47%. AND MANY OF THEM ARE STILL EMPTY. WRAL'S KEELY ARTHUR IS LIVE TO EXPLAIN THE NEED TO BRING WORKERS BACK. AND HOW SOON IT COULD HAPPEN. KEELY? >> Reporter: KIND OF SOON, BUT MAYBE NOT SOON ENOUGH, GERALD. EXPERTS EXPECT ABOUT 77% OF OFFICE WORKERS TO BE BACK IN THESE OFFICES COME THE END OF SEPTEMBER. BUT STILL LOTS OF SIGNS OF LIFE EVEN HAPPENING DOWNTOWN RIGHT NOW. THERE ARE PEOPLE OUTSIDE EATING AND THEN THERE ARE FUN ACTIVITIES HAPPENING LIKE THIS POP-UP SOCCER FIELD AT CITY PLAZA. ALL OF IT IS HELPING US REBOUND BACK. >> A LOT OF FUN STUFF. >> Reporter: AFTER THE RIOTS AND MONTHS AND MONTHS OF LOCKDOWNS BECAUSE OF COVID-19. >> IT FEELS LIKE TWO YEARS NOW. >> Reporter: DOWNTOWN IS COMING BACK. >> WE DO HAVE COOL OUTDOOR THINGS LIKE THE SOCCER FIELD. WE'RE DOING CONCERT SERIES. MORE SQUARES. WE HAVE OUR MARKET EVERY SUNDAY. >> Reporter: THE MISSING PIECE OF THE PUZZLE THOUGH FOR DOWNTOWN BUSINESS OWNERS LIKE MAGGIE KANE. >> IT'S A NON-PROFIT RESTAURANT. >> Reporter: REALLY ANYONE OUT OF DOWNTOWN WHERE IT'S OFFICE WORKERS. ROUGHLY 47% OF THE DOWNTOWN AREA IS MADE UP OF OFFICE BUILDINGS AND GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS. MANY OF THOSE BUILDINGS RIGHT NOW ARE NOT BACK TO THEIR PRE- PANDEMIC OCCUPANCY. BILL KING THE HEAD OF DOWNTOWN RALEIGH ALLIANCE THINKS THAT WILL CHANGE SOON ACCORDING TO THEIR RESEARCH. >> BY THE END OF SEPTEMBER, 77% OF EMPLOYEES WILL BE BACK AT LEAST THREE DAYS A WEEK DOWNTOWN IN THEIR OFFICES. THAT'S GREAT. YOU'RE SEEING A BIG SHIFT FROM MAY THROUGH SEPTEMBER. >> Reporter: IN THE MEANTIME THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO ATTRACT PEOPLE TO THAT AREA. >> THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING GOING ON DOWNTOWN. THAT'S A BIG PART OF THE STRATEGY. >> Reporter: BARELY HUNG ON. WE HAVE MISSED PEOPLE COMING IN TO DOWNTOWN. >> Reporter: AND IT REALLY IS SO FUN IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA. I DID ASK BILL KING WHO YOU JUST HEARD IN THAT STORY IF THERE ARE ANY BUSINESSES HE KNOWS OF THAT ARE NOT GOING TO RETURN TO ANY IN-PERSON WORK IN THE CITY. HE SAYS IN THIS DOWNTOWN AREA, HE DOESN'T KNOW OF ANY RIGHT NOW, WHICH IS GOOD NEWS, GERALD. >> IT TRULY IS.

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I'm meteorologist, Kat Campbell and the wr severe weather center, the wr weather alert day will go into tomorrow. We have seen our first round of storms clear the area, but overnight we expect more storms to move in between about three and 9 a.m. Those should be more widespread but with a little bit less energy in the atmosphere, the primary concern there would be damaging winds and then we'll have a low storm threat as we head into tomorrow afternoon. So let's take a look at future casts. Storms continue to clear out from the early evening round. We should be dry 1011 midnight. It's not until about three or 4 a.m. that we begin to see storms move into our western counties and those are going to be with us during the early morning hours. 6 a.m. Rain could be around on a pretty widespread basis, impacting the morning commute. We'll see a good chance for rain seven perhaps lingering into 89 o'clock. After that, we should start to see the rain pushing out and storm chances would be pretty low for the remainder of the day. But in the morning, beware of rain and storms at the bus stop. You may want to wait in the car with your kids if you're able to, especially if there's any thunder or lightning around. Meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner will keep you up to date on that starting at 430 tomorrow on wr news. So be sure to check in with her before you leave the house and head to the bus stop. The good news is storms clear out just in time for Saturday and Sunday. We'll still have some scattered storms around Friday afternoon. Saturday though, it is cooler. It's drier, not so humid. 74 partly cloudy, a 20% chance for rain. Very, very late Saturday night and most of us aren't going to see that 79 for Mother's Day on Sunday. It ends up being a beautiful and dry day for Mother's Day 59 at 8 a.m. 70 by lunchtime upper seventies for the afternoon. And we get a break from the big heat. No more nineties on our seven day forecast, high temperatures are going to be still above normal most days, but a bit closer to normal for this time of year in the seventies and eighties, at least Thursday remains a WRL weather alert day, at least during the morning hours. Friday, we've got some scattered storms a 50% chance. Those are more typical afternoon, summertime storms and then over the weekend things look pretty nice. Overall, the humidity drops in a significant way this weekend we stay pretty comfortable on Monday of next week, but late Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, we could see a soaking round of rain arrive. Certainly good news that we are seeing the rain around here. We just don't need these, the storm threat to go with it.

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