Colony Shopping Center — Local services in Raleigh

Run down shopping center with a ghostlike abandoned movie theater. It’s on a fairly steep hill so heads up when it rains. There is a Food Lion, which in my opinion is the best one in the area. There’s a dive bar on the corner called the Bull and Bear that has been there for ages. There’s also a Japanese restaurant, though I’ve never eaten there so I cannot comment on it. Can be very difficult to turn left out of the parking lot if you’re exiting the main way. I suggest going to the side and...

The Taco Bell here is definitely not one of the great ones. Everyone knows that you usually don't get exactly what you ordered in the drive thru but here, they usually mess it up inside as well. The wait was about 35 minutes but I understand the way hiring is right now so I won't hold that against them..... yet. I'm still totally disappointed that all Taco Bell restaurants have removed my favorite item, the Mexican pizza, from the menu. Please...

For a shopping center that's right on the edge of the hot and heavy North hills area, the management company takes atrocious care of this place. The benches are nasty, the sidewalks are nasty. I don't think anything has been updated or upgraded or cleaned and 10 years. The painting on the parking lots saying stop and dividing parking spaces is faded to next to nothing in some areas. Somebody just really needs to take better care of that...