Sometimes I feel like you guys love cranes more than the actual buildings.Chalupas54 wrote: ↑Dec 11, 2017Also, it will be awesome to have a tower crane high above DT.
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It might be really happening.
Those parking garages though. Damn. Really wish we could get the height restriction removed on Shannon's. That site makes zero sense.
Those parking garages though. Damn. Really wish we could get the height restriction removed on Shannon's. That site makes zero sense.
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^All in due time. I bet that once BPV is fully built, the restrictions are lessened or removed. Let's get all of the empty parking lots filled up first and the current proposals actually built.
I find it odd that only one will be used on the office portion of the project. That block is pretty large so this seems odd. Maybe you are right, some smaller cranes to assist the tower cranes. I could see that.
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Just pure speculation but I would think 1 tower crane for the apartment portion and 2 on the West end of the site for the office and hotel.
Do we have a definitive height for the apartment tower as of yet? it seems like this should be public by this point.
Do we have a definitive height for the apartment tower as of yet? it seems like this should be public by this point.
320 is my guess on the height. No higher but certainly not much shorter. 310 feet at least.newstl2020 wrote:Just pure speculation but I would think 1 tower crane for the apartment portion and 2 on the West end of the site for the office and hotel.
Do we have a definitive height for the apartment tower as of yet? it seems like this should be public by this point.
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That is taken from the Cardinal's website. I am assuming that has to be a typo as that does not even work out to 8' per story. I would imagine that is supposed to be 330'.The residential apartment tower will be a modern, 29-story, 230 foot tall, luxury high-rise apartment building at the corner of Clark and Broadway that will offer views of the Gateway Arch, the Mississippi River, the St. Louis skyline, and unobstructed views directly into Busch Stadium.
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dollars to donuts that's a typo meant to be 320ft.newstl2020 wrote: ↑Dec 12, 2017That is taken from the Cardinal's website. I am assuming that has to be a typo as that does not even work out to 8' per story. I would imagine that is supposed to be 330'.The residential apartment tower will be a modern, 29-story, 230 foot tall, luxury high-rise apartment building at the corner of Clark and Broadway that will offer views of the Gateway Arch, the Mississippi River, the St. Louis skyline, and unobstructed views directly into Busch Stadium.
They were taking pieces of the core drillers off of trucks today. They also have fencing and other things for construction. 2 lanes of Broadway are closed and a lane or two is closed on 7th. So be careful when driving around there. Also, there are 8 construction office mobile homes on site. Seems like a lot for the project this size.
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Just before Christmas, 2003, I think maybe December 23, work started on Busch III with little fanfare (kind of like this a crew just showed up and started). Only took 14 more years for work to start on a real Ballpark Village. Not bad in St. Louis time. Concerns about over-subsidization aside (because it is), it's nice to finally see this. But I think we were all wrong in how many pages of threads would happen before we got a start on a real BPV.
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^Absolutely. Isn't this ~ the third iteration of this thread with the same number of pages?
The huge thing for StL in this Phase 2 is that the lots are bigger than the Phase 3 lots. Pure speculation, but I believe Phase 3 is going to be the easiest phase of the project to complete.
The huge thing for StL in this Phase 2 is that the lots are bigger than the Phase 3 lots. Pure speculation, but I believe Phase 3 is going to be the easiest phase of the project to complete.
Foundation Only Building Permit was issued on 12/8/2017, which I assume is why mobilization started Monday. There was also a $25,000 plumbing permit issued yesterday for block 400.
The crane onsite is probably for driving piles for the shoring to do whatever excavation is planned. The drill that is being assembled is pretty self-explanatory. GC is Paric, and despite their McKee connection that always bothers me, they generally seem to do good work.
The crane onsite is probably for driving piles for the shoring to do whatever excavation is planned. The drill that is being assembled is pretty self-explanatory. GC is Paric, and despite their McKee connection that always bothers me, they generally seem to do good work.
Hopefully we'll hear more about Rawlings future in phase 2 at the Groundbreaking.
Im anxious to hear more about the retail space
Im anxious to hear more about the retail space
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Even Fredbird got in on the action.
link to ceremonial ground breaking video
link to ceremonial ground breaking video
I kind of with they would have had to use jackhammers on the concrete. oh well.moorlander wrote: ↑Dec 14, 2017Even Fredbird got in on the action.
link to ceremonial ground breaking video
Additional renderings. Featured in the post. https://www.buildingstlnews.com/the-bl ... aks-ground