Downtown Greensboro is getting a Westin Hotel

[cityboi]

Work on the Westin Greensboro is definitely underway. Significant foundation construction is underway and it won't be long before we see a tower crane rise. There will actually be two cranes. A tower crane for the Westin and another crane for the other end of the parking deck the Westin will sit on that stretches a block north.

The building highlighted in red is the Dixie building. Gives us a little idea how tall the Westin will be. It will be pretty much twice the height of the Dixie Building.  That's a pretty decent height and it will be tall with a pretty deep footprint. Taller than Project Slugger. And if Roy Carroll starts construction on the 12 story AC Hotel on the north end of downtown before the year ends, we may have two tower cranes erected downtown.

 

 

 

Been a little while since we've seen one of these.

Edited May 7, 2021 by cityboi

[cityboi]

A little crane action. Pretty soon we'll see the big crane 

[cityboi]

Here is a closer view of construction 

[cityboi]

[KJHburg]

By the time this hotel opens business travel should be back and Tanger Center in full swing.   Good for Carroll! 

 

[cityboi]

Really spreading out now. I say it won't be long before the tower crane is erected.

The combined height of the deck and the hotel that will sit atop the deck will about twice the height of the red brick building (former Elm Street Center) in the center of the picture. It will be close to the height of the Guilford Building on the left. The Elm Street Center btw will be converted into the Westin's meeting space.

You can see the tall red brick portion in the rendering. The building is going to be tall and have a pretty large foot print, a much larger foot print than most of the other tall buildings downtown.

Edited June 13, 2021 by cityboi

[CalChief]

On 6/13/2021 at 1:26 PM, cityboi said:

Really spreading out now. I say it won't be long before the tower crane is erected.

The combined height of the deck and the hotel that will sit atop the deck will about twice the height of the red brick building (former Elm Street Center) in the center of the picture. It will be close to the height of the Guilford Building on the left. The Elm Street Center btw will be converted into the Westin's meeting space.

You can see the tall red brick portion in the rendering. The building is going to be tall and have a pretty large foot print, a much larger foot print than most of the other tall buildings downtown.

Im more curious to how the February one street will play out into the hotel...like im sure they are building a new parking deck under the mass like before...im guessing here but it would be nice to still drive thru it like the old days...i miss that little area...i could always find parking on that street lol. 

[cityboi]

7 hours ago, CalChief said:

Im more curious to how the February one street will play out into the hotel...like im sure they are building a new parking deck under the mass like before...im guessing here but it would be nice to still drive thru it like the old days...i miss that little area...i could always find parking on that street lol. 

Actually February One Place will stay intact. The deck will go over the street.  The arrival shelter of the Westin will be located along February One Place where guest and buses drive in. Cincy's restaurant across the street in the Dixie Building may benefit from getting more business but they need to expand their hours. Cincy's is one of the oldest restaurants in downtown Greensboro. It was there back in the 1980s. They are well known for their chili.

Edited June 25, 2021 by cityboi

[GSOstrong]

At cranes up on this project yet?


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[cityboi]

On 7/5/2021 at 3:06 PM, GSOstrong said:

At cranes up on this project yet?


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Not yet 

[jthomas]

Vertical construction at the Westin site this morning.

[rancenc]

Aerial view of recent construction of the Westin!

 

[GSOstrong]

Road by this site earlier today but couldn’t get any good pictures because roads were blocked off but there seem to be a lot of work going on now and it’s making a decent progress. Definitely feels good to see the project moving forward after so much time of being asleep.


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[cityboi]

Looks like some movement again. There is now a crane. And also I couldn't really tell but it appears there are several long trucks with what Looks like pieces of a tower crane. It wasn't quite daylight so I couldn't tell for sure.

One of the trucks 

Edited January 15, 2022 by cityboi

[cityboi]

It is indeed the tower crane! The crane that is up now is being used to erect the tower crane. They are putting it up now.

Edited January 16, 2022 by cityboi

[cityboi]

Took them almost a week lol but they finally finished installing the tower crane 

[cityboi]

Construction photo. We should soon start seeing steel rise from the ground 

[GSOstrong]

Construction photo. We should soon start seeing steel rise from the ground 
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Is the hotel supposed to sit atop this parking deck or is it going over the old building along elm st?


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[cityboi]

2 hours ago, GSOstrong said:

Is the hotel supposed to sit atop this parking deck or is it going over the old building along elm st?


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Its supposed to sit on top of the parking deck.

[AlmaPinnix]

I really hope they do something amazing across the street from this. that old N&R building is an eye sore.

[cityboi]

They are starting to make some progress. A second smaller crane is on site and they have already erected part of the parking deck on the north end of the construction site at East Market Street. Within a month we should see a major difference.

Edited February 13, 2022 by cityboi

[Beedev]

Did you notice they have a small corner of the deck erected along the Market Street side?

[cityboi]

7 hours ago, Beedev said:

Did you notice they have a small corner of the deck erected along the Market Street side?

Yes indeed. Really starting to come along 

[cityboi]

Wow what a change in just a few weeks.

Edited February 19, 2022 by cityboi

[cityboi]

Looks like one level of the hotel/deck section complete. They are not playing around. This is starting to go up fast. Part of the deck on the other side of the development is already up to 5 stories.

Edited February 25, 2022 by cityboi