While many prominent new properties are being built across the Triangle, several of the region's most notable planned developments still lack firm timelines for beginning construction.

Why it matters: Due to various factors — high interest rates, remote work, increased competition from other developers and the reluctance of banks to issue loans — many of the region's largest projects are indefinitely on hold.

We've rounded up some notable projects that have been delayed.

• This isn't a comprehensive list. Some projects, such as Peebles' proposal to redevelop the old four-acre Durham police HQ into a mixed-use campus featuring affordable housing and office space, are early in their planning phases and lack a firm timeline.

Some delayed projects include:

• Downtown South: Raleigh's busiest developer, Kane Realty, is still waiting for financial conditions to improve before it begins building a North Hills-like collection of apartments and offices south of downtown Raleigh.
• Apple's RTP HQ: Perhaps the state's most prized economic development win, Apple's planned Research Triangle Park campus has not yet broken ground, though the company says it has hired hundreds in the area in recent years.
• Epic Games' HQ: The old Cary Towne Center Mall has been razed, but Epic Games, which bought the property for $95 million in 2021, hasn't put forward final plans for what it will build there next. A spokesperson told Axios it still has nothing to share on its plans.
• Kimpton Hotel: The days of downtown Raleigh's iconic/infamous circular Holiday Inn were thought to be numbered. But the hotel continues to avoid the fate of demolition as a New York developer says it can't share a timeline on when it plans to build a Kimpton Hotel there.

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North Carolina joined more than a dozen Democratic state attorneys general in a lawsuit against President Trump yesterday seeking to block him from implementing an executive order that attempts to ban birthright citizenship.

Why it matters: The suit follows similar challenges from civil rights groups fighting Trump's attempt to dismantle a right enshrined in the Constitution's 14th Amendment.

Driving the news: North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson is part of a coalition of 18 states, as well as the cities of San Francisco and Washington, D.C., that filed the lawsuit Tuesday against Trump and members of his administration.

• The lawsuit called the order a "flagrantly unlawful attempt to strip hundreds of thousands of American-born children of their citizenship" and argued Trump has "no authority to rewrite or nullify a constitutional amendment."

What they're saying: "The Constitution leaves no room for executive reinterpretation on this matter — it is clear, settled, and binding," Jackson said in a press release.

• "This order seeks to undermine that clarity, creating legal uncertainty and denying fundamental rights to children born in this country."

Context: Trump's executive order would end birthright citizenship for children born to noncitizen parents and unauthorized immigrants in the U.S.

Go deeper: Trump signs executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship

A Raleigh police officer was seriously injured in a south Raleigh shooting last night. The suspect is dead, the Raleigh Police Department said. (X)

✍️ President Trump's executive order pardoning defendants tied to the Jan. 6, 2020 storming of the U.S. Capitol also commuted the sentence of Gaston County Proud Boys member Jeremy Bertino. (WUNC)

💰 SAS Institute has acquired more land near its Cary campus, though it isn't saying why. (Triangle Business Journal 🔒)

🚌 North Carolina state transportation officials announced a new bus route between Winston-Salem and Danville, Virginia, home to the Triangle's closest casino, saying they've "identified a great need for additional connectivity." (Department of Transportation)

• Our Axios Richmond colleague Karri Peifer said it best: "I assume this is basically just a casino party bus."

Wake County state Rep. Joe John, 85, resigned from the state legislature and said he is now facing a terminal cancer diagnosis. (Facebook)

🗳️ North Carolina Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin is seeking to throw out some 5,500 votes of those who cast military absentee ballots. He cast his own ballot the same way in 2019 and 2020. (ProPublica)

President Trump will visit western North Carolina Friday as part of his first trip as president. (WRAL)

Charlotte rapper DaBaby wants to create the next North Carolina anthem — though trying to match the power of Petey Pablo's "Raise Up" might be near impossible.

Why it matters: In a recent interview with local radio station WFNZ, DaBaby hinted that he's working on music with the Carolina Panthers, hoping to contend with North Carolina native and Triangle resident Petey Pablo's anthemic "Raise Up."

• You know the 2001 song: "This one's for North Carolina! Come on and raise up," Pablo sings. "Take your shirt off, twist it 'round your hand. Spin it like a helicopter."

What they're saying: "We've got to give ourselves another theme song," DaBaby told WFNZ. "Petey Pablo's been holding it down for decades for us."

"It's gonna be tough to compete with," co-host Walker Mehl responded.

• No doubt. "Raise Up" has become a fixture at every North Carolina sporting event, parties across the state and a cultural signpost that many non-North Carolinians reference about the state.
• I mean how many popular songs give a shout-out to Pasquotank County?

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A historic snowstorm is freezing New Orleans, coating the New Orleans metro and bringing the region to a standstill, our Axios New Orleans colleagues Carlie Kollath Wells and Chelsea Brasted report.

Why it matters: It's a once-in-a-generation snowstorm, tied to a polar vortex-driven Arctic blast hitting the Lower 48 states and pummeling a region ill-equipped for such heavy snow and continued cold, Axios' Andrew Freedman writes.

Go deeper: In photos: Historic snowstorm freezes New Orleans