How the town is built
Durham's property mix is defined by Duke more than by any other single institution — the campus, the hospital, and the campus-adjacent historic residential in Trinity Park and Trinity Heights carry a density you don't see anywhere else on our book. The American Tobacco Historic District on the south side of downtown — former Lucky Strike factories redeveloped into mixed-use since 2003 — adds another distinct scale. Historic residential in Trinity Park, Forest Hills, Watts Hospital-Hillandale, Lakewood Park, and Old West Durham carries 1890s-through-1930s homes under district-specific preservation review. The Ninth Street area and the Erwin Mills blocks preserve textile-mill-era residential and small-shop commercial. The Hayti Historic District and the NC Mutual Life Insurance footprint hold the Black Wall Street heritage. Research Triangle Park on the south edge carries research-and-biotech institutional density across the Durham / Wake / Chatham County line. Perimeter suburban residential and I-40 / I-85 commercial fill in the remaining footprint.