My bets are
1) serious structural failures
2) out of money including a pending lawsuit
3) they’ve upset an ancient pet cemetery and the site now belongs to a herd of wild horse ghost…
It's more about the grocery store component than the structure (although there are walls slanted on the top floor but that can be fixed). A grocery store will still happen, just it doesn't seem like it will be full service at this point (and was promised).
It's more about the grocery store component than the structure (although there are walls slanted on the top floor but that can be fixed). A grocery store will still happen, just it doesn't seem like it will be full service at this point (and was promised).
As long as they sell absurdly-overpriced junk food, airplane bottles, singles, loosies, flavored blunts, and scratchers, it's all good...
I walked by this AM and the gate was open with a couple guys walking around. No army of workers though. I asked one of the guys working across the street what was up with the project and he just said he didn't know.
No. I go by the site at least twice a day and haven’t seen supplies move or a worker present in weeks. Although the gate must be automated as it still opens daily. Considering the same contractor was used on the project across the street I’d imagine client is having financial issues and not paying them so they stopped building or walked away.
LArchitecture wrote:No. I go by the site at least twice a day and haven’t seen supplies move or a worker present in weeks. Although the gate must be automated as it still opens daily. Considering the same contractor was used on the project across the street I’d imagine client is having financial issues and not paying them so they stopped building or walked away.
Gates aren’t automated. A worker comes and opens them every day. Deliveries have continued to pile up, but no workers to put it up. Expo website moved opening date from Winter 2022 to Summer 2022.
I see workers there daily. Usually in the morning around 8 am-ish. They have been working on the interior of the north building since the rest of the construction paused.
Elek.borrelli wrote:I see workers there daily. Usually in the morning around 8 am-ish. They have been working on the interior of the north building since the rest of the construction paused.
How many are there though, I never see more than 2 or 3 people on site. A project this big, they’ve gotta be hardly making a dent.
^ Can't exactly see many of them, but I can definitely hear them. Usually, there are a couple walking around that I can see through the gate. Not sure how many are in the building itself.
No discernable progress as of yesterday.
Every day without progress is another day of closed sidewalks.
Bizarre. Not great for a wood-framed building to be sitting open and completely exposed to the elements for a long period, especially through the winter. Hopefully they tarped everything, but doesn't appear to be the case.
No discernable progress as of yesterday.
Every day without progress is another day of closed sidewalks.
Bizarre. Not great for a wood-framed building to be sitting open and completely exposed to the elements for a long period, especially through the winter. Hopefully they tarped everything, but doesn't appear to be the case.
On the north building it looks like they added a temporary water barrier to the “roof” and outdoor balcony areas. As for the south building after all the rain that has hit it I would think some of it is lost work at this point. My wife says a good contractor would be inspecting after each storm event though and would access if it needs to be removed or not.
Wood framing can last longer than you expect exposed as long as it can dry. The warranty on engineered sub-floors are a year or longer of exposure nowadays, and sheathing with integrated air and water barrier like Zip System hold up way longer than commodity OSB and house wrap. I have an ADU project in my backyard that I had to leave the Zip System sheathing exposed for two years now for a variety of reasons until the siding maybe comes in next week, and it's as good as the day it went on. That said, they still need to get a roof on this before too long. If there are financial issues, I would think that the lenders would take over to at least push the project forward that far.