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They could put it to the left where the gray unfinished area is currently. Plenty of room there for a big block S. Then again, they might have just decided to go with the sign that is there currently. Only time will tell... One thing for sure, we can all be glad it's Michigan State in our city and not some other school with a lousy football team.
You are correct - it will be installed to the left of the current signage.
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Nice photos John!
FYI - The HDVCH and MSU tower cranes will be coming down in August, and I think the VAI one will be coming down soon as well. So if anyone has been intending on getting some shots w/ all 4 in the air, you should work some time into your schedule sometime soon.
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Tower 35 will have the same fantastic cast stone product, so don't hold your breath for that one to look any better. Whoever ran the sales pitch for that product must have been one smooth talker...
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The beginning of demolition...
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A few pictures from a new angle:
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MSU Med School has the whole first few floors closed in with tarps (green ones, natch). Pouring floors?
Floors are poured up through 1/2 of 6th and the final few pours of the 1st floor auditorium seating and final lobby topping slab. The tarps are for fireproofing operations. It keeps the material from carrying in the wind and sticking to things it's not supposed to - i.e. cars, adjacent buildings, etc.
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FYI - the HDVCH 3rd floor beams have been delayed but the 4th, 5th, etc. floors are fab'd and ready to go. So once Level 3 shows up you should see the steel really start to fly.
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Demo and abatement is in progress. Actual structural demo is probably a couple months away, but it should be down this fall.
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So are the waterfalls off or did they not make the cut?
They're up and running.
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A few more of the office and infusion areas:
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Peeking through the windows. Is this place supposed to be completely finished by June 30th?
It is completely finished but there are a handful of shelled unleased spaces throughout the building - i.e 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th floor NE corners.
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I could be wrong, but isn't the shaded area the atrium inside the building? If it is maybe there is a color difference to help heat or cool the large open space in the atrium. Or to limit or let more sunlight in.
That's basically correct. It's a frosted glass in lieu of the spandrel glass to let more light into the atrium. In my opinion, instead of frosted glass they should have gone with the same tinted vision glass used on the rest of the building, but the heat transfer may have been too extreme for the LEED-compliant HVAC system...
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Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion Lobby:
Gowned Waiting Area:
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that gas station its riddle[sic] with pot holes and really seems out of place for the area.
That Circle K is the only decent gas station within any reasonable distance of The Hill.
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I'm personally hoping for a parking lot. hilarious.
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So I take it MSU will be going vertical very quickly since the foundation's already in place? Or do they have a waiting period for some reason? That'll be something to look forward too if they're jumpin' on it.
Concrete will begin immediately and run through mid-May, then it'll go vertical
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The first LHCP linear accelerator was dropped off last week and installation is in progress. The other 3 are coming throughout the next few weeks and the HDR unit was dropped off last week as well.
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I'll have to take your word for it. Noticed that they are present on this rendering (although you can barely see them)
haha - I never said I like them either...just relaying the theory behind them.
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Just noticed today they have installed lights on top of the brick columns on the LHCP. Very similar in style to the lighthouse-ish ones at downtown GVSU. Don't care for them at all here - seem scaled wrong (too small) for the application. Anyone else notice these (on the side of the building that faces Michigan St)?
They match the rest of the MSD project plaza levels - supposedly it'll make more sense when the MSD Phase 2 is completed.
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Talked to a friend yesterday, a current Towers building dweller, and she told me the Towers building is scheduled for a April '08 demolition.
I believe that's fairly accurate, but the demo could be a slow process as there is a TON of asbestos abatement required.
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I (willingly) live next to I-196, very close to where they put those lines up (but not under them thankfully). They do concern me, but not for cancer reasons. I think they look really bad, when will we get to the day when all new lines are put underground?
I took another look at it today on the way by and I originally didn't realize how far north that new substation & lines run...that's definitely not cool.
Anyway, it looks like they are wrapping up work on the Michigan St. bridge, just pouring the last portion of sidewalk today:And the new parking ramp under the Michigan St development is now up and running, and storing cars.
Word on the street is that the south lanes of Michigan Street will be open on Tuesday or Wednesday next week (pending decent weather).
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Yeah, you would think that would kind of kill your property value. That's probably why they don't put massive transformers next to rich people's houses, ehh? You'd like to think they'd get reimbursed somehow for that decrease, and the increased risk of brain cancer but I doubt it.
I'm guessing anyone willing to live next to an interstate isn't exactly concerned about these types of things....
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Very nice! I'm glad to see the rumors of gaudy green cladding are NOT included in this version - phew!
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Between 1:00 and 5:00 today they added three sections to the tower crane. They were also starting to assemble a large crane on a truck - to add the higher sections?
Fitz
Yes, they're adding a luffing jib to the hydraulic crane. They were able to unload the trucks and get some mast in the air during regular hours. Then they can keep a skeleton crew on for a little OT to put the luffer on which will let them rock and roll first thing in the morning.
hilarious.
Medical Mile/Michigan Street Developments
in Grand Rapids
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VAI also has their green roof installed:
http://oxblue.com/pro/open/vai/