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Tour of one of the units. I see cracked walls near the baseboard. Can someone explain if this is or is not good construction? https://www.facebook.com/1053hotfm/videos/1784754038215462/

That stretch of Wilson between 28th street and Lake Michigan needs to be two lanes pronto..

I put in an official inquirery towards living there, but... that was over a year ago. Thought it’d be done around the July time frame. I made it a point to move out of my parents house on July 4th. Had to rub it in a little yuh know. Anyway, that time has long since past, and I’ve chooses a different place to live near the Grandville Mall. They boasted that they had 200+ people interested inquireries of people wanting to move there. I’m sure I was counted in that figure. But I’ve long past moved on. Would I be interested again in the future? Yes... But now that I’ve settled down in a nice apartment down the road, my next step is looking towards buying a house. They’ve missed the boat with me. The longer this sits in construction, the worse it’s going to get with people like me. If this misses another summer, this will turn into a failed development.

The link below is a comparison of Downtown GR from 2013-2017 Enjoy! https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=1b291762-f8ce-11e7-b263-0edaf8f81e27

Really!!! How sure are you? Even the Hinman Tower! Where are you getting your information?

Well thank you for the unintentional compliment. All I need is credit for the design if it changes to this. Having my name on the building would suffice.

One bag of Cheetos + 15 minutes = wa la...

Look who's already wooing Amazon into town.

It's going to be 172 ft. I also think that representation of the height of the building show with red lines is dramatically incorrect. It's more accurate to say the height will be as tall as where that dark green crane's joint, for a lack of a better term, is. To prove my point, they don't make cranes shorter than the buildings they construct.

Different angle

update of 601 on Bond

I think this is a completely unrealistic plan. There is no way in Hell that any 1,000,000 sized city can support a Headquarters the size of 50,000. Remember, when we talk about 50,000 employees, we haven't started including family members and all that good crap. And remember a city the size of about a million doesn't have a million jobs. We are not talking about a 5% increase in jobs. This would lead to such an infrastructural change of a magnitude, that this would nearly cripple any city the size of ours. And think about all the supportive jobs that will be created through this. This undertaking is basically a complete city overhaul. Just imagine this, take the entire metro of Kalamazoo, and drop it on Grand Rapids. That's what we are talking about. This little construction boom we've had has almost crippled our infrastructure already. The highway is backed up to 44th street driving into downtown some mornings. Amazon is ginning up excitement of a new Amazon headquarters, for various reasons. You could say they are jealous of the press Apple is getting with their new headquarters. Their use of the bid process is just the kind of way to keep the negative eyes off them and the positive ones on them. Free, wide coverage, positive publicity. Hmm... I wonder why a large corporation that is said to be killing jobs needs a counter story circulating? This sounds more like a ploy from Amazon to propagate that they are not killing traditional jobs. Nothing does that more than moving jobs around on a map. I'm a huge Amazon Fan. I exclusively buy items on Amazon to the point of absurdity. I also think Grand Rapids is a good candidate, if there is one, for this ridiculous plan. But let's call a spade a spade. This is a political move more than anything. The degree to which a city must bend over backwards to accommodate this plan is ridiculous. This kind of deal requires a complete infrastructure overhaul throughout the entire city. New highways, larger roads, an expedited process for developers to develop. None of this Historic Preservation Bullcrap. Just because gram gram use to live in that apartment doesn't make it historic. It makes it old. Amazon is not looking to do business in a city that can't rebuild. Our city leaders are not up to the task to make any such tough decisions. When was the last large infrastructure project? M6? and before that: The S-Curve? I don't think throwing bikes in people's faces in winter is going to change things. And when you understand why trolleys were historically thrown to the curb in favor of more comfortable, flexible, cheaper, faster buses, you won't be making progress on that front either. I personally think that if any city is going to be a leader in accommodating an influx of development and jobs to this degree in this age, they have to be at the forefront of accommodating for autonomous driving technology. Namely infrastructure and regulation that aids and assists this technology. We shouldn't be bidding for Amazon, we should be trying to work with companies working on autonomous driving technology. If Amazon is the Girl, then supportive autonomous driving infrastructure are the flowers. If we are talking about 50,000 people who are probably all geeks drooling over those Tesla cars anyways, we'd have a huge population prepared to utilize said infrastructure. If there is any strategy to acquire this deal, it's this.

Played around with my camera and photoshop the other day...

My first response was, "Oh... Oh, No.... that looks terrible". Then I thought to myself, it's probably going to look a lot better than it was before when it had no character. But as long as it's their money/property/and reputation on the line, I have nothing to say but, "Whatever floats your moat".

I think they've stopped putting those concrete panels up and have focused on starting interior framing. I think parts of this building will be fully completed, and ready for renters, while other parts are still under construction. The building is big enough that renters would hardly be affected. Though I have no clue whether a building has to be 100% ready, because of codes or whatever reason, before people can start moving in.