Downtown Construction Pics

[bobliocatt]

Here's some pics of various construction sites I took this morning.

20 West & Laura Trio, in background

Public Library

The Strand

The Peninsula

San Marco Place

recently completed storage building on Park St.

site work being done for Riverside Partners tower

construction on the Lofts at East Union site

another library shot

Fidelity National Financial

5 Points Theater building

Claude Nolan Cadillac, soon to be converted into lofts

Arena Parking Garage

1661 Riverside

11th St. loft conversion

[Urban_Legend]

AWESOME! Those projects are looking great! Thanks for posting all these pics.

[prahaboheme]

Nice update! The library looks supercool from that view. I like how it interacts with the plaza, its sort of "monumental."

[ZachariahDaMan]

Great pictures! Thanks for posting them.

[DavePaulk]

does anyone know the story on the Lofts at East Union?? Are those under construction or what's the deal?

[bobliocatt]

Rumor is, they're doing site remediation. Considering there was a coal plant across the street 100 years ago, there's no telling what's underground.

[merlin]

20 west has been sitting that way for 10 months now. Rumor is there is supposed to be a Looop going in there. Given there has been no movement in almost a year, I am not sure how feasible that is.

[bobliocatt]

The Loop announcement was printed in the paper about 2 months ago, yet there's still no work going on with the building. I have a feeling the developer is having trouble with financing the project. I hope someone with bigger pockets comes along and takes control of the project.

[wolfdawg54]

The pictures are great! I really enjoyed seeing them. Also, it is a shame that the potential Loop is running into problems. It is such a great place to eat and would really benefit that area.

[asonj23]

Is that street level retail I see in the riverside storage building??

Thanks for the pics Lakelander!

[bobliocatt]

The storage building has its on retail store or office, at street level. For what it is, I'd say it turned out pretty decent.

[asonj23]

That is much better than what they are building 2 of at San Jose and 295.

[jjoshjl]

Yeh, i live in that area so I was getting all excited when I thought I was seeing two 4 story office buildings going up. Only to find out it was storage...

oh well, we cant win 'em all...

Cheers

[Urban_Legend]

Still, that storage place surpassed what I had in mind. Whew....

[DavePaulk]

I too was impressed by the storage building. I was furious at first when I saw that something like that was being allowed, but the brick is very urban looking. It is also one of those necessities to make that area more liveable.

[vladittude0583]

[vicupstate]

Great pics. Thanks for posting.