The average suburban commuter / out of town visitor on 64/40!!!!!!!
Yes. This is the last parking level for the garage. By January 1st, the amenity floor will be completed. There are some apartments on it but floors that are made up of all apartments begins on level 7. By February 27th (one year since start) this should be up to Floor 11 or 12.newstl2020 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 15, 2018 2:39 pmHard at work on a Saturday. From the webcam today. I believe they have hit the last of the parking levels and are transitioning to residential floors. A concrete pump is being installed next to the core that will rise with the tower.
I'm not at all sure there's any ground level approach from the east that isn't at least somewhat depressing. For comparison you'd really need to ask how people from Springfield MO or Memphis see St. Louis. But the truth of the matter is that if you go downtown by more or less any possible route you will pass through some areas of abandonment and neglect. Even from the south and west. Downtown is almost completely surrounded by aging industry, aging transportation infrastructure, and pockets of persistent poverty. The only real exception is an exceptionally slender thread leading west along Locust or maybe Washington. And that's very very recent and still fragile. The eastern fringes of midtown still have quite a long way to go. They're worlds better than they were twenty years ago, but . . . there are a lot of holes. And some of those are pretty visible even from the highway, though with the Armory and Foundry projects that might change pretty quickly. It doesn't help that property right next to the highway has something of a strike against it to begin with.GoHarvOrGoHome wrote: ↑Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:47 amNice sightline from 44 too. Unfortunately 70 is still an embarrassing wasteland for people driving through. Makes me wonder if populations from areas that would typically pass through STL o 70 have measurably different opinions about us than those that would naturally drive 64. I.E. people from Kansas City always talk about St. Louis like it's the next Detroit, but would people from Louisville have a different opinion? These are the things that keep me up at night.
Thanks for sharing. I personally am liking this angle of the building. I think it will look better than the southwestern angle we have seen in the rendering. Here is the other photo, zoom of the angles. An interesting fact here is that the zig-zag portions, that will be living rooms above Floor 5, will be storage units on Floors 2, 3 and 4. Parking spaces couldn't fit here so it's interesting.
I think it has something to do with the curing process, on a tower like One Hundred especially. For steel structures, I think it rises faster in order for steel to be attached as steel is faster to erect. I don't know for sure but that's my theory.pdm_ad wrote: ↑Thu Jan 10, 2019 8:09 pmI don't know squat about commercial construction and maybe this is an obvious question but why are some elevator shafts built at a pace similar to the floors where they don't rise much above the steel while others are poured way ahead like Centene? I remember watching the Eagleton Courthouse go up and they basically had the elevator shafts completed before they started attaching the steel. It looked like a giant square smokestack for a while.
The apartments on the first floor of the tiers, with a terrace, will be very small based on the outline. Will be interesting to see how they come out.
