Citi Tower | 23-Story Residential [Under Construction]

[gibby]

Food for thought:  With Citi Tower rising and 420 Church nearing completion, this will be the first north/south stretch of the South Eola neighborhood with an uninterrupted streetwall between Central and South streets.  This neighborhood has been cut up and dissected over the years by overly optimistic developers who came up short and left us with empty lots.  It's nice to see some density repairing the damage. 

Sadly, Lake Avenue does not really make it to South Street uninterrupted.  The poorly located retirement home building is in the way.

[mcn11]

Should be visible from 408 at least.

Should be visible coming down I4 west bound assuming it rises above the Waverly and or PNC.

[prahaboheme]

I do like the visual impact of the South Eola mid-rise skyline.  It adds some decent depth perception to downtown from a few angles.

[veryamusing]

Sadly, Lake Avenue does not really make it to South Street uninterrupted.  The poorly located retirement home building is in the way.

It looks like the retirement home building occupies the vacated 60' right of way.  The original 1888 plat shows Lake Street continuing through to South Street, but an ordinance dated December 1966 (Official Records Book 1594 / Page 65) vacated the ROW.  A second ordinance was recorded in February 1967 (OR 1611 / 653), which amended the first.  Same land described in both though.  Not sure what politics were at play to cause the abandonment.  Interesting.

 

[RedStar25]

 

Edited November 14, 2015 by RedStar25
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[RedStar25]

This is a tiny lot for a highrise. I will be interested to see how the building is built. 

[prahaboheme]

Nice to see the small foot print - most of our high rises have massive footprints.

[JFW657]

Agreed.

 

[jrs2]

^^

Agreed.  It's narrow but long (N-S).  It will be a nice change.

[Pete C]

Aspire and Solaire would fit within that footprint, and so could the Vue's actual residential building without the garage.

Edited November 16, 2015 by Pete C

[RedStar25]

Foundation Work! 

Edited December 8, 2015 by RedStar25
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[RedStar25]

[gibby]

Very exciting.

[jrs2]

I'm excited too!  this will completely block Sanctuary from view I think from the Plaza complex

[RedStar25]

Ladies, Gentlemen, and others.... We have a crane. 

[JFW657]

Or the beginnings of one anyway.

 

[Jernigan]

Hope they install an oxblue

[John Hargrove]

Few things excite me more than a crane. (I wish I was joking.)

[JFW657]

6 hours ago, castorvx said:

Few things excite me more than a crane. (I wish I was joking.)

Well, it's not uncommon for people to "get it up" because of a crane. 

 

 

 

[spenser1058]

 

19 minutes ago, JFW657 said:

Well, it's not uncommon for people to "get it up" because of a crane. 

 

 

 

Oh my

[jrs2]

instant gap filler.  I love this and 420.

[prahaboheme]

This tower will finally give the mini-skyline of South Eola a focal point. Hopefully the light feature will be visible from different areas such as the 408 and I-4.

[JFW657]

The nice thing is that we won't have to wait until the building is final and complete in order to begin seeing that visual effect, either. The skeleton should be topped out in about what.... six months? Mid summer-ish anyway. 

[dcluley98]

Should be able to see the crown with a visual impact of the top floor features and lighting over the Paramount, as it is several stories taller. Additionally, the diagonal placement of Waverly with gap between it and the Paramount means you will be able to see almost a full elevation of the building from the NW corner of Lake Eola park near Relax grill.  It will be exciting to see this top out for sure!  I think it is one of the better designs of the recently proposed high rises.

Here is a photo from the lobby of the Landmark II Building directly across the lake.  You can see the cranes from this building site through the gap in the buildings, and this is from the eastern Landmark building further toward the middle of the lake.  I would assume it will make a big visual impact anywhere in the NW corner of the park from here all the way to the bandshell.

Edited January 11, 2016 by dcluley98
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[dcluley98]

Conceptual Photo-chop hack job of what this could look like from bandshell area of Lake Eola Park.  I used crappy google street view photo and the rendering with a perspective that was way off for a closer street level of the building, so obviously it isn't perfect, but I think this is a reasonably close concept of how this building could look through the gap I spoke of above.