I'll stay for the night if you pay.
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VERY exciting...fist new caissons in downtown since the Eagleton correct? 7 years is WAYY too long to wait, I'm glad the next waiting period should only be a few months at best.
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did we just have an administrator come on to a board member .... and for money no less 
Wha???newstl2020 wrote:VERY exciting...fist new caissons in downtown since the Eagleton correct? 7 years is WAYY too long to wait, I'm glad the next waiting period should only be a few months at best.
markofucity wrote:did we just have an administrator come on to a board member .... and for money no less
No thanks. He's not my type. Wrong sex to start with.
newstl2020 wrote:VERY exciting...fist new caissons in downtown since the Eagleton correct? 7 years is WAYY too long to wait, I'm glad the next waiting period should only be a few months at best.
Nope. Several garages have gone up in that time using drilled piers for their foundations. Not to mention Lumiere Place.
^...and the new Renaissance Grand tower and Conference Center, Busch Stadium, the Federal Reserve addition, the justice center, A.G. Edwards addition (if you consider that downtown), and um, whatever that new building east of Union Station is.
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Any underground parking?
Parking in the 9th Street Garage with valet service included in condo fee.
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HAHA that's pretty damn funny. My bad of the caisson remark, I'll count Lumiere and the Grand but the garage I am leaving off, it would go against way too much. I should have specified to first high-rise, but that would still mean lumiere. Oh well, either way this is awesome.
Yikes! I come home to this? 
No problem, all in good fun.
(For the record, I'm a 45 year-old straight white male)
No problem, all in good fun.(For the record, I'm a 45 year-old straight white male)
And for the record, I am a 21 year old straight white male. I may be single, but not that desperate.
You guys crack me up on some of these posts, but thats cool it keeps it interesting. 
It is only fair that chicken hawks get some airtime after so much attention has been paid to cougars on this forum 
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Is this a thread about the Zoo or Roberts Tower?
.Is this a thread about the Zoo or Roberts Tower?
As you see there are some large steel beems in the front.
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However. From a side shot, it seems those are not part of the tower as it is a separate fenced area.
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However. From a side shot, it seems those are not part of the tower as it is a separate fenced area.
I would agree, and I meant to post that. I think the steel is for the plaza.
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Any chance they are using the eastern side of the plaza as a temporary staging area for Robert's? I would think not, as they closed the street for a reason, but it's a possibility if there are planning on completing the western half first and then the eastern half as I believe it looks to be integrated into the tower.
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Please...that drill will sit there for months before it actually is used. People do this all the time, staging with a big piece of equipment...
But that piece of equipment costs thousands of dollars every day it sits there.
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TheWayoftheArch wrote:Please...that drill will sit there for months before it actually is used. People do this all the time, staging with a big piece of equipment...
Seems like construction co's do this all the time. There has been a crane at Clayton/brentwood for 6months now. Why pay all that extra money to just let a a crane or drill just sit there?
I am looking out my 39th story window at a great site! Actual Ground Breaking on the newest residential development to hit downtown in decades! The drill is hard at work as we speak. I would argue that today is a bigger day in downtown Saint Louis history than either of those last week. Why? Because after years of folks on this board and around St. Louis dreaming, speculating, discussing, complaining, wondering, hoping, about the future of downtown, today, for the first time in decades, there is construction being done on new residential development. The Roberts Tower actual groundbreaking today, Oct. 1, 2007 marks a new day in my opinion. Finally, someone without the incredible tax incentives of rehabbing a historical structure, had enough faith in the city to start building. Before Ballpark Village, before Skyhouse, before Park Pacific, or any other “Big Talker’s” broke ground, the Roberts Bros. actually did it. This is a big day!