Name: What's behind Durham's downtown growth
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Description: The population is expected to more than double in the next 25 years and much of that growth and development is happening in downtown Durham.

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The population is expected to more than double in the next 25 years and much of that growth and development is happening in downtown Durham. 

THERE. >>> DURHAM'S POPULATION IS EXPECTED TO DOUBLE IN THE NEXT 20 YEARS, AND LORA LAVIGNE IS EXPLAINING WHAT'S BEHIND THE RAPID EXPANSION. >> Reporter: DURHAM IS EXPERIENCING ITS MOST RAPID GROWTH IN DECADES, AND IT'S THE LOCAL BUSINESSES LIKE HERE THAT CREATE THE FOUNDATION FOR THE BULL CITY. ALMOST EVERYWHERE YOU TURN IN DOWNTOWN DURHAM, YOU'LL SEE NEW CRANES IN THE AIR AND A NEW TOWER ADDED TO THE SKYLINE. >> WE CAN'T BE AUDIENCE MEMBERS TO THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. >> WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IS THE DRIVING FACTOR, WHAT'S MAKING DOWNTOWN DURHAM THE PLACE TO BE? >> I WOULD SAY IT WAS ALWAYS THE PLACE TO BE. OTHER PEOPLE ARE NOW DISCOVERING. >> IT'S REMARKABLE THAT WE ARE SEEING THIS OCCUR IN COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT, A SMALL RETAIL DEVELOPMENT AND RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT. >> Reporter: DOWNTOWN OFFICE SPACE INCREASED BY 11% AND RESIDENTIAL UNITS ARE UP BY 7%, AND MORE SMALL BUSINESSES HAVE COME ONLINE SINCE 2020. >> WE TEND TO LEAD IN A FRAGMENTED WAY. >> Reporter: THE FOCUS NOW IS TO ENSURE THE DEVELOPMENT IS EQUITABLE. >> WE HAVE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE RELATIONSHIPS OF THE NEW BUSINESSES COMING TO THE AREA AND HAVE MORE FOLKS GETTING ACCESS TO CAPITAL. >> ALL THOSE THINGS ARE BUILDING THIS COMMUNITY AND DESIRE TO WANT TO BE IN THE DOWNTOWN, WHICH IS WHY WE ARE SEEING THE POLICIES. >> Reporter: AND IT'S NOT JUST DOWNTOWN THAT'S IMPACTED BUT THE AREAS ADJACENT TO IT. LORA LAVIGNE, WRAL NEWS IN DURHAM. >> YOU CAN HELP SMALL

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I'm meteorologist, Kat Campbell in the wr a severe weather center. No more thirties in the forecast and we don't have a frost threat tonight so you can leave your plants be, temperatures are falling into the upper forties to lower fifties overnight. We've got a different wind direction and some more clouds that will fill in by daybreak tomorrow at the bus stop, it'll be in the low to mid fifties for most of the kids out there. So a mild start, but you may want to send your kids to school with an umbrella because by the time they head home, some of us are going to be dealing with a chance for rain during the afternoon. It's all due to this cold front. Approaching from the northwest. There's not a lot of moisture for the front to work with, but just enough and enough lift to squeeze out some rain. I think that rain chances would start in our northwestern counties around 11 a.m. through lunchtime. And then that chance is really closer to, to three o'clock here in the triangle. But that might be when the kids are heading home as we get toward 456. It would be south and east of the triangle with the best chance for rain. Rocky Mount, Southern Pines. I'm thinking you'll be in that 3 to 5 p.m. time frame for rain. It's not going to be a very heavy rain. There is a small chance of a thunderstorm embedded, but most of us will just see some pretty light rain. In fact, models are showing less than 5/100 of an inch of rain. So very tiny rainfall amounts from this event. We do have the Durham Bulls in town this week. And luckily the forecast looks good for all of their home games. First pitch is at 6:35 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. We've just got wonderful baseball weather. Temperatures will be near 70 for the first pitches and the rain should be over in Durham, the triangle by the time we get to dinner time for tomorrow evening, which means it's likely to be a dry game for us. Your seven day forecast show, some big changes are on the way though. We've got 74 for the high Wednesday with chance for rain Thursday just 72. So a small dip in our high temperatures more noticeable at night though we fall into the upper forties Thursday night to Friday morning, we're going with 47 as the low Friday morning around the triangle. And then once we get to the weekend temperatures begin to rebound. However, that will come with an increasing cloud cover mostly cloudy Saturday and Sunday. But back in the eighties by Sunday and even warmer next week, highs could climb near 90 a week from today.

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