Medical Mile/Michigan Street Developments

[Time]

I love the rendering o Proposal 3, does anyone know why it was not chosen? Does it still have any chance?

[mpchicago]

I love the rendering o Proposal 3, does anyone know why it was not chosen? Does it still have any chance?

1) Maybe it wasn't picked because of costs, or maybe taste of those deciding. However, cost may not be an issue, i.e., bridge and spire.

2) I would say the design that we've seen here for a while is going to be it.

[Time]

) I would say the design that we've seen here for a while is going to be it.

I agree, but i still love proposal 3, lits less blocky looking

[GRDadof3]

This hole keeps getting deeper. I wonder where bottom will be.

[GRDadof3]

Lemmen Holton on its way to being completely closed in:

Backfilling the MDOT ROW:

Sort of ominous on a hot humid cloudy evening:

The whole shabbang coming together:

(click to zoom in)

[NorthEnder]

I wonder how far up the faux fieldstone is going.... Interesting choice.

[GRDadof3]

I wonder how far up the faux fieldstone is going.... Interesting choice.

It goes all the way up in some areas, but mainly as an accent. I don't know what the backside will look like, but I'm guessing the big bulk of it won't go much higher, and then small bands of it on the vertical sections:

[grrwymg]

This hole keeps getting deeper. I wonder where bottom will be.

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My guess is when they hit water.

Or maybe just above it (hopefully).

[Raildudes dad]

My guess is when they hit water.

Or maybe just above it (hopefully).

Loks like they're mining sand & gravel. Do they have their mining permit?

[cnordstrom]

Wow, I had no idea the substrate was so sandy downtown! Makes sense, I suppose, but for some reason I had thought it was all clay throughout the interior of the state??

[suydam]

Wow, I had no idea the substrate was so sandy downtown! Makes sense, I suppose, but for some reason I had thought it was all clay throughout the interior of the state??

I live 3 miles from downtown. My yard (and everyone's yard on my block) is entirely sand.

There's also a huge sand/gravel mine up in Plainfield Twp.

I think there's a lot of sand in this area...not just down by the river.

Edited June 28, 2007 by suydam

[GRDadof3]

Wow, I had no idea the substrate was so sandy downtown! Makes sense, I suppose, but for some reason I had thought it was all clay throughout the interior of the state??

I have TONS of sand under my yard. Want some? I can hardly keep water on it. I'm like suydam, about 3.5 miles from downtown (as the crow flies).

It seems like the only place in the metro area where you'll find a lot of clay is in the low-lying areas around Hudsonville, Jenison, Georgetown Twp, and areas in Kentwood.

[NorthEnder]

I have TONS of sand under my yard. Want some? I can hardly keep water on it. I'm like suydam, about 3.5 miles from downtown (as the crow flies).

It seems like the only place in the metro area where you'll find a lot of clay is in the low-lying areas around Hudsonville, Jenison, Georgetown Twp, and areas in Kentwood.

Our experience in Ada is tons of clay.

http://www.gis.iwr.msu.edu/net21/ssurgo/kent/kent.html -- soils map

[joeDowntown]

I really like how this building is shaping up in the front and the back. You can really see the stepped pattern as you drive east on 96. Looks really nice and makes it look less monolithic.

Joe

[Allison Slater]

Towers Building is beginning to remind me of the taxis I'd see from atop the John Hancock in Chicago. tiiiiiiny

[cnordstrom]

Heck GRDad, I'm moving to Ann Arbor in a few weeks, and our yard there is all clay... maybe we can do a substrate swap? LOL

[wayneoh]

I was just browsing the history of this topic, and since it has been going quite a while, and I've not been on UP for that long, I found an interesting picture and had a question.

Where does that thing go? Is it a functioning tunnel to the main hospital? Or will it serve some other purpose?

[sparky05]

yup - it's a tunnel to the hospital all right. I doubt that it's functioning yet...

[GRDadof3]

I was just browsing the history of this topic, and since it has been going quite a while, and I've not been on UP for that long, I found an interesting picture and had a question.

Where does that thing go? Is it a functioning tunnel to the main hospital? Or will it serve some other purpose?

As sparky noted, yes it will be a functioning tunnel (read: for human travel) between the Lemmen Holton Cancer Center and the main hospital. Another interesting side note is that it was formed using a chemical reaction that turns sand into sandstone, the first of its kind in the U.S. (I believe), but used in Germany a lot.

[sparky05]

Well Hello there!

It's unbelievable how much dirt has been removed from this site...

Check out where ground level used to be:

[Raildudes dad]

Wow, I had no idea the substrate was so sandy downtown! Makes sense, I suppose, but for some reason I had thought it was all clay throughout the interior of the state??

Glacial deposits around here. You name it we got it from bedrock to sand to clay to muck and every combination thereof

[GRDadof3]

Well Hello there!

Wow, that's incredible that we were just discussing the tunnel in the other health hill thread.

[tamias6]

I can't see anybody except maintenance personnel going all the way down to use the tunnel unless the giant parking ramp across the street has levels that deep.

Wow, that's incredible that we were just discussing the tunnel in the other health hill thread.

[Yankee Fan]

I heard that they have agreed on a tentative design for the Medical School. Has anyone seen the images?

Edited July 9, 2007 by Yankee Fan

[sparky05]

woo hoo!