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Rumor alert! An alert poster said he knows people who work with the city who said a SkyHouse apartment tower is being eyed for downtown Greensboro near the ballpark. There may be evidence that backs that rumor up. Triad City Beat newspaper reported this back in February:

"Matheny said that the Ballpark District was “next” in terms of neighborhood activation. At the core of it is developer Roy Carroll’s megaproject starting to come together across the street, several planned residential towers and hotels.

“It’s time to go vertical,” Matheny said. “There’s nowhere to go but up.”

The article mentions residential towers. One of them may be the SkyHouse but another could be a part of developer Roy Carroll’s Aloft hotel project across the street from the ballpark. It's interesting that the city is scrambling to build two large parking decks in anticipation for future development.

That's not all. The same poster said he heard that Roy Carroll has an anchor tenant lined up for his project 561 office tower which would be the tallest building in North Carolina outside of Charlotte at 561 feet tall. One possible tenant could be Arch Capital which announce back in December that it was relocating its corporate headquarters to Greensboro. The company just recently acquired Greensboro based United Guaranty making it the largest mortgage insurance company in the United States.

If all this is true, Greensboro's skyline may dramatically change over the next several years with as many as four towers. A high-rise Westin hotel is also scheduled to open downtown in 2019.