Ascent Uptown - 33 stories (3rd and Poplar)

[tozmervo]

Great photo! Did you climb a baseball stadium light tower to take that?

[Guest]

Great photo! Did you climb a baseball stadium light tower to take that?

He borrowed my Helicopter. 

[Jt282506]

Great photo! Did you climb a baseball stadium light tower to take that?

Maybe From a balcony at Element?

Edited April 23, 2015 by Jayvee

[LBell9]

Great photo! Did you climb a baseball stadium light tower to take that?

 

I tried that but for some reason they stopped me.  I decided flying our drone from Romare Bearden park would work a little better. 

[birky]

Great shot.  Have to think that block where Green's Lunch sits is destined to go before too long...

[Jt282506]

I would love for them to build low rise retail and outdoor space to take up that entire plot, ugh. If only.

[Guest]

I would love for them to build low rise retail and outdoor space to take up that entire plot, ugh. If only.

It would be great if they just copy and pasted Latta Arcade and put 2 floor apartments above it.

[BullDurhamer]

I'd like to submit these images from January for the historical record. 

[Spartan]

A street level view of the Ascent Apartments

 

 

The more I look at it, the more I like the architecture of this building. Y'all probably know I'm not usually a big fan of contemporary/modern stuff - but I have to applaud this developer for doing something different than the boxy buildings across RBP.

 

I also think the blue color is fine. I think the tendency to use bright/primary colors everywhere is a fad and will look dated in 10 years.

[Guest]

Woah, They are already building a pretty big hole at Ascent. They aren't joking around. I think I remember hearing this would have two levels of subterranean parking as well as the 10 floors of above ground parking.

[HopHead]

Woah, They are already building a pretty big hole at Ascent. They aren't joking around. I think I remember hearing this would have two levels of subterranean parking as well as the 10 floors of above ground parking.

 

I just peeked on the 300 South Tryon web cam, and you're right... They are tearing up that parking lot and digging down. They went from stuck in neutral to 5th gear rather quickly on this one. 

[Jt282506]

They are absolutely CRUISING on the site, wow. These pictures dont do it justice but there has been so much site work done already.

[MilZ]

Descent Uptown

[CarolinaCrown]

[Jt282506]

Nice you got some great vantage points in all these pictures

[rickrodewd]

Video on the Observer's YouTube channel.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw7HtWeCZp0

[unccmyway]

Snapped two pics today from the parking deck at Church and 3rd.

[CarolinaCrown]

Chugging along on this one already. If I read the piling correctly they may go down 150-175 feet, how deep is this dig going to go?

[AuLukey]

I'm thinking that's {sodEmoji.|}65 {sodEmoji.|}70 {sodEmoji.|}75 with the {sodEmoji.|} just being a measurement line.  Can't imagine they'd need to go that (175) deep

[grodney]

A different viewpoint:

[CarolinaCrown]

Getting deeper.

[BullDurhamer]

looks like a crane is going up soon

Edited May 27, 2015 by BullDurhamer

[Jrlooney88]

 

Things are moving along, they are definitely going to need an Oxblue or another form of webcam here soon

[CarolinaCrown]

Descent update

[navigator319]

Crane is going up this morning.