GoingUptown

Any idea what these things are? Space capsules? Taken through the portal on Tryon on another lunchtime walk today.

Photos from a lunchtime walk today. 26 (really 25) floors all done and working on the hat. Also some photos of the quick progress on the hotel and garage, including two “in action” shots to add to their Topps cards. (Old school baseball card reference!)

Here are some photos from today. They’re up to floor 26 with the steel on the south side of the building. Getting close! The last pic was taken from the sidewalk outside the Westin on S College. You can only see the top four floors of the building over that massive garage!

Also, those are the last two floors starting. It should be topped out soon!

Some photos from today’s glorious Charlotte day... And my random thoughts: 1) This parking deck is massively high and is THISCLOSE to the main building. I know there are plans to adorn the parking deck, and it’ll need it. You can see one of the photos from the College St side and it looks massive. 2) Will they adorn the side of the parking deck facing the building? If not, that will be one heck of a view from the dark side of the moon! 3) The future hotel is a very deep hole right now. Any idea when we’ll start to see that rise? 4) They’re up to floor 7 with glass, and that grid design looks sweet.

They’re installing trees along the Tryon St streetscape now, along with lettering on the building. Right now, it says “TOWER”. I’m waiting with bated breath to see what the rest of the letters will spell. lol

This building is going to look sweet on sunny afternoons. I cropped these photos to show only the most finished parts right now, and it really makes it easy to visualize how it’ll turn out.

They have begun work building out a bit on the street level. I love how it’s all looking so far!

Now that they have a couple of floors of windows with the little silver trim around it, you can get a better sense of how it’ll all look.

Indeed, as I walked by just now, the mystery is solved. It’s for the hoist. You can see that I’m not a skyscraper construction expert!

Here’s a photo of the little top-of-building facade mock-up they have. On the backside, they added lighting yesterday (I think) so this is likely what the top of the building will look like, just scaled down. I’m curious to see it at night now! Does anyone know what they’re making with the wood framing? There are studs as if they were making doors, but they’re a little smaller than door sized. I’m stumped, because I don’t see anything on the renderings that match whatever this looks like. It’s on the Stonewall side and at least three floors of this mysterious framing is happening so far.

First installation of glass, from a few different angles. Cool!

Today... what’s the purpose of the white tarps they have put up? (Perhaps a novice question!)

Panorama of the whole site taken on this beautiful morning... I notice that there are stairs now, so I zoomed in and got a grainy photo of those, too!

Snapped this panoramic photo a little while ago, on a beautiful Christmas Eve day here in the QC. The job site was quiet. Not a creature was stirring. Not even a mouse.

Going up... up to floors 5-6 now.

Here’s a view probably not seen too much; taken this morning.

It’s my first post here. I wanted to add something tangible, so here are a few photos of the site as of this morning. They’ve made a little more progress on the 4th floor since the Monday photos posted above.