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Xing wrote:Wow, thanks for those pics Matt. It certainly has come a long way since I last saw it. Looks good!

Really? You think so? Personally, as it currently stands, I'm just not liking that yellow-and-gray, sort of unfinished industrial look that is has. I'm hoping they make it look more like the rendering.

What a behemoth!

^It was up to 7 on Wednesday.

A billion condos could provide one condo for every family in the world.



The article also calls it the "Park Tower East" several times at the bottom.

In the coming months, they will announce an l48-unit loft project, Park East Lofts, directly east of Park East Tower. This project would include a city-owned public parking lot topped with three stories of loft-style condominiums.



?We?re also working through the initial stages of a 26 or 28 story residence building with 200 units,? Pitcher says. ?This will be on the northeast corner of Euclid and Lindell. It will be a little less expensive and a little smaller than average size.



Okay, the author really needs to get an editor. First of all. the Park East Lofts are planned directly north of the Park East Tower, not east.



Also, what kind of quote is this:

?This will be on the northeast corner of Euclid and Lindell. It will be a little less expensive and a little smaller than average size."

Obviously the writer doesn't realize that a 28-story building is double the size of the tallest buiilding currently on the block. Anyway you slice it, it's not "a little smaller than average size." Quite the opposite. (Don't get me wrong, I'M ALL IN FAVOR OF IT.)



I'm just really getting sick of air-head fluff writers who obviously do no research or fact-checking on the subject they're writing on.

STLgasm wrote: Also, what kind of quote is this:

?This will be on the northeast corner of Euclid and Lindell. It will be a little less expensive and a little smaller than average size. "

Obviously the writer doesn't realize that a 28-story building is double the size of the tallest buiilding currently on the block. Anyway you slice it, it's not "a little smaller than average size." Quite the opposite. (Don't get me wrong, I'M ALL IN FAVOR OF IT.)



I'm just really getting sick of air-head fluff writers who obviously do no research or fact-checking on the subject they're writing on.

Is he refering to the unit sizes in the tower maybe? That would make some sense.

MistaC01 wrote:Is he refering to the unit sizes in the tower maybe? That would make some sense.

That is what I got out of it also... the <A HREF="http://www.urbanstl.com/viewtopic.php?t=210">Lindell Condominiums</A> units will be a little less expensive in comparison to the Park East Tower, and smaller than average in terms of square feet per unit.

^^ yes, you're probably right, but it's bad wording regardless.

I thought "average size" referred to UNIT size too... what is the "average size" of a building as a whole, anyway?

I dunno. Ive been looking at all sorts of stuff for Park East Tower and the Rennisance on Euclid (I think that is what they are going to call it) and it will be taller and wider than Park East. I'm betting he meant unit size too.

Driving by tonight I noticed that the facade was starting to go on. The building is about 9 stories up right now. Along Laclede it looks like they are installing sandstone type collumns, but it was dark so I couldn't really tell. Looked similiar to what BJC has used on their garages and some buildings. There was some details in it. Large concrete panels have covered up the backside, where the Park East Lofts will be.

^I'll try to get that done tommorrow night after work.

Matt,



Thanks for those. I haven't been able to check out the site in a while, so it's nice to get an update.

that's a lot of parking along Laclede, i had the impression the parking was going to face west.....

It is covered in a regular facade, so I don't know how apperent it will be to the normal person that there is parking in there. It's not going to be like some office buildings where there is an unmasked garage below, then a normal facade above.

Matt, Thanks for the update. I am grateful.

Pics from today, 12-20-05. The building is up a full nine floors now.