Tempo Hotel, 127 Rosa Parks, 16 story, 295 room hotel, 6,500 sq. ft. retail, 200 capacity garage, ground level retail

[markhollin]

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[markhollin]

Internal walls starting to form.

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[markhollin]

More pillars rising.

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[markhollin]

Up to 2nd level for internal garage.

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[markhollin]

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[markhollin]

Starting 3rd level on west side.

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[chris holman]

[Sean blackdog]

Yesterday evening. 

[markhollin]

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[nashville born]

Wish this stayed at 23.  IMO, with its proximity to the proposed Marriott, both at only infill height will create a whole of sorts.  Not a fan of contiguous or almost contiguous lots building at infill height within the central core.  Nice to add another hotel, though.

[chris holman]

[markhollin]

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[markhollin]

Up to 3rd floor across full site now.

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[markhollin]

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[Sean blackdog]

Today this morning from SKY5. 

[markhollin]

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[markhollin]

Up to 4th level.

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[PillowTalk4]

On 7/8/2022 at 9:42 AM, nashville born said:

Wish this stayed at 23.  IMO, with its proximity to the proposed Marriott, both at only infill height will create a whole of sorts.  Not a fan of contiguous or almost contiguous lots building at infill height within the central core.  Nice to add another hotel, though.

Don't come to DC... LOL!!! The density is great.  The variation in height... not so much.  Even in areas where the height restrictions have been relaxed, the developers build the new stuff around the same height, so there's still very little variation.  The topography probably causes more of the variation than the buildings themselves.

Anyway, I actually think that with the low rise buildings in the area of Rosa Parks, which I hope will remain, and with NY's near by, this hotel will be fine.  I'm more concerned about the taller buildings all being around the same height and not having any identifiable features to set them apart at their tops.  Give us some overlapping arches, metal beams that angle and light up at night, something different to finish off the tops.

[nashville born]

15 minutes ago, PillowTalk4 said:

Don't come to DC... LOL!!! The density is great.  The variation in height... not so much.  Even in areas where the height restrictions have been relaxed, the developers build the new stuff around the same height, so there's still very little variation.  The topography probably causes more of the variation than the buildings themselves.

Anyway, I actually think that with the low rise buildings in the area of Rosa Parks, which I hope will remain, and with NY's near by, this hotel will be fine.  I'm more concerned about the taller buildings all being around the same height and not having any identifiable features to set them apart at their tops.  Give us some overlapping arches, metal beams that angle and light up at night, something different to finish off the tops.

Lmbo!  Yeah, I'm very familiar with the DC scene having been just up the road in DE for so long.  At least that mini skyline is taking hold near Tyson's Corner!

[markhollin]

Up to 5th floor on NE corner.

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[CandyAisles]

This one is about to get going up fast.

[nashville born]

31 minutes ago, CandyAisles said:

This one is about to get going up fast.

Wish it was still 23 stories.  Selfishly, I want all future CBD infill to be at least 200' to ensure that density look and feel as land becomes more scarce and we start to add taller and taller towers.

[CandyAisles]

2 minutes ago, nashville born said:

Wish it was still 23 stories.  Selfishly, I want all future CBD infill to be at least 200' to ensure that density look and feel as land becomes more scarce and we start to add taller and taller towers.

Yeah it would have been nice.  Really tough financing a hotel right now which is likely why so few have begun construction in the downtown core since 2021.  I believe this is one of two projects that were able to start downtown post-COVID?

[markhollin]

Up to 5th floor; parking pedestal nearly complete.

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