300 East Main

[Spartan]

Awesome! Thanks for that update. If you, or anyone can, please try to get a picture of the demolition!

[spartanburgh]

The old County Foundation building is coming down at the corner of E. Main and Alabama St. I hope the second building gets started soon. It sounds like Spartanburg needs more class A office space.

[spartanburgh]

I was by the Old Spartanburg County Foundation building again today and its on the ground. The job site trailers and some construction storage trailers are already there too. It looks like the second building will begin immediately on the corner of Alabama St. and Main. After much delays it looks as though the project will now be fast tracked. I am hopeful the overhead power lines in the area will be relocated underground as well. It would make the site much more attractive.

[Spartan]

The second building of the 300 East Main project is about to get underway. Here's the link. It will be 60,000 sq fy and look similar to the sister building.

Here's the rendering again:

Here are some demolition pictures from last week:

From the Kennedy St garage:

Fun stuff

[krazeeboi]

Both buildings together should make for a nice visual impact.

[Spartan]

Indeed. Plus, once the Catholic church is finished, we won't have that major gaping hole (visually) on Main Street anymore. Its just down to the Bank of America spot and the FBC parking lot (which will probably not go away).

[hub-city]

Steel has started going up.

sorry no pics.

[Spartan]

I hope this is going to go further back.

[krazeeboi]

It's gotta be. Judging from the rendering, it should be wider as well. But it looks like they just started erecting the frame.

[spartanburgh]

This is only about 25% of the steel frame. The foundation is poured all the way back to the rear entry of the parking deck. I don't understand why the small block building is being incapsulated in the new building unless some of MCI's switch gear is still in there. It looks as though the building will face Alabama St. with the long side there and possibly another entry on Main St.

[Spartan]

^I had thought that might be the case, with the entrance facing Alabama Street. That rendering made the long side look like the front. There is no more room to expand toward the Carolina Southern bank building. Its just weird because they normally build buildings one floor a a time, not like the way they are doing it there.

[hub-city]

I believe that they are having to adjust the order of steel because of the small portion of the building that was there. That section holds some type of cables or phone lines. They are building the building over that section. They are leaving the old walls up and putting steel around them, so the outside facade willl be new, but theere will be an interior room that will still be old.

[Spartan]

Ok, there is more to it this time. Its coming along nicely.

[krazeeboi]

Looking much better.

[roads-scholar]

Progress on Phase II

Another view from street level

[Spartan]

Thanks for the pics!

Does anyone else think its odd that they are putting the siding on from the top down?

[krazeeboi]

The pics aren't showing up for me.

[Spartan]

Me either.

[krazeeboi]

Saw some construction pics on another site and this is looking really good.

[Spartan]

Indeed. It seems I need to get home and take some pictures.

[krazeeboi]

Rode through downtown this past weekend and got a chance to see the progress on the 2nd office building on this site. It looks to be nearly finished and compliments the first building nicely.

[Spartan]

It is looking very nice. I was home this weekend but I forgot my camera... so no pictures.

[Spartan]

I'm not sure how much I like this building. Its very bulky architecturally, and I can't find much that I like about it in any sense.

This last picture looks like some sort of medieval castle gateway or something.

I guess if nothing else its better than the old MCI monstrosity that was there.

[krazeeboi]

Is there any street level retail either in that building or the one next to it?

[Spartan]

Of course not.