It's my understanding that the backs of other buildings along the west side of West Street are covered with graffiti.

Thanks for reporting. I have notified our Public Works Department and will update this issue when the graffiti removal team has responded. You can also enter graffiti notices directly using our online graffiti removal inbox:

graffiti@raleighnc.gov

This has been removed!

May have been removed farther down the tracks, but the graffiti at the end of Devereux street (dead ends to the tracks) is still there. See picture. Can you re-open? Thank you!

I will send back to graffiti team...

We are still working on this one. Some of these are very difficult to get to. Just an update.

Thank you. Sooner the better. Both houses at the end of Devereux are up for rent/buy and our prospects are looking hard at the tracks and graffeti. No offers yet - any link b/w the two I don't know, but we know it's not a positive!

The graffiti is a terrible eyesore on our street. We have been waiting for it to be fixed, and watching for updates from Brooks Turner. Please put this higher on the priority list. The report says it was reported "about a month ago," but I believe Brooks first contacted you in January. Please please work on this!

Thanks so much,

Winifred Ernst
500 Devereux

Still there and still ugly. Please resolve this ASAP.

FYI - I live 714 Glenwood on the corner of Devereaux & Glenwood and would also like to see it removed/resolved ASAP as it is an eyesore.

Ongoing problem that needs to be resolved. Has anyone contacted the business located directly? Also this building is should never have been permitted. Exceeds building height to neighborhood.

David Knight

Also live on Devereux Street and would like for this to be removed. Disappointed that it was reported in January and still no progress.

Thank you for addressing this problem and helping to make downtown Raleigh ever more appealing!

Please remove graffitti as soon as possible. I live at 505 Devereux St. and it's an embarrassment to have when we have visitors. We want to take pride in living in downtown.
Danielle Gardner

Obviously there is a great deal of neighborhood interest in having this graffiti removed as soon as possible. I live at 500 Devereux and see this everyday coming and going from home. City of Raleigh, can you please provide us with a status report?

Sorry it has taken us so long to post an update but we have been repeatedly trying to work with the property owner of the building, without success. If we remove the graffiti from the back of the building we will do it at no cost to the property owner, but the chemicals used to remove the graffiti are likely to remove the paint on the back side of the building at the same time, and the City does not offer repainting as an option in our graffiti removal program. The owner has therefore decided not to allow the City to remove this graffiti, so we can't do much more unless the owner changes his mind.

The building is owned by CE Rentals. The owner is Charles Phaneuf (charles@cerental.com). The phone number is (919) 833-9743. Our graffiti removal coordinator, Stacy Jackson, stands ready to help if the property owner changes his mind. We are going to close this issue at this point as the City can do no more without property owner cooperation.

It would be nice if someone did a small test on the exterior metal cladding.If the material is enamel coating or powder coated then (vandal mark remover by Apollo) will remove the spray paint without damaging the surface.I still never saw the building permit for this structure or was it ever listed without a zoning hearing.

Thank you for the call on Friday, and for explaining the situation to Chris Ernst. I understand that the paint is very expensive, and it might turn out that having the city build a fence across the end of the street to hide the graffiti would be just as cost effective. Thanks so much for checking on this for us. We look forward to hearing about both options...
1) the kind of paint remover being used (per David Knight's suggestion) and
2) the possibility of building a fence to hide it for good. None of us were pleased with the huge size of the building affecting our street to begin with, and the graffiti has added insult to injury. Thank you very much for your help, and we look forward to hearing an update.

Winifred Ernst