RALEIGH – North Carolina State University leadership has been awaiting the next step in a months-long process to determine how the institution could proceed with plans for Centennial Campus, which the university is seeking the OK to redevelop. They got it, as a rezoning request was approved by the Raleigh City Council on Tuesday night. Now what? That process, formally begun after the university submitted a rezoning request to the City of Raleigh in November 2020, will now allow redevelopment of 975 acres of Centennial Campus. And the timing could be fortuitous: Google, Apple, Invitae, and others recently announced plans to establish new Triangle-based offices with thousands of employees expected to be hired in the coming years. According to WRAL TechWire sources, more companies could be on their way to expand in the region or to relocate to the region. Commercial real estate developers continue to add square footage of office space, indicating signs the commercial market in the Triangle may not see a pandemic dip after all.