Hinman project - new 13 story hotel at 10 Ionia

[joeDowntown]

Wow, instant 1st floor. That is so cool. Can't wait to swing by after work to take a look!

Joe

[Raildude's dad]

According to the Kerkstra website, the Grandville facility is 175,000 sqft. They also added Detroit facility a couple years ago with 300,000 sqft. They make lots of precast "stuff"

Edited June 18, 2019 by Raildude's dad

[Allison Slater]

I get the feeling this is going to go up FAST.

[joeDowntown]

Just drove by. A few thoughts. 1.  I think the rendering they have on site is way off from a scale perspective (its much bigger). 2. Even with a few panels up, you can see how much this area is going to change the area. 

It feels big. Definitely get down and take a look. It’s hard to get a good photo that shows the scale of just the first two floors. Also, I think it’ll have McKay tower vibe. It’s gray.  the renderings always show it as a tan/sandstone color. 

Exciting to see progress above ground!

Joe

[GR_Urbanist]

It looks like a BEAST! Totally making a real statement!

 

With this at one end, and the theater complex at the other, the businesses on Ionia must be loving life right now.

Edited June 18, 2019 by GR_Urbanist

[MJLO]

10 minutes ago, joeDowntown said:

 I think it’ll have McKay tower vibe. It’s gray.  the renderings always show it as a tan/sandstone color. 

Exciting to see progress above ground!

Joe

You don’t think they will paint or anything?

[RegalTDP]

30 minutes ago, joeDowntown said:

1.  I think the rendering they have on site is way off from a scale perspective (its much bigger).

Yeah - I feel like that wide angle rendering is attempting to make it look like the center of a big plaza, and that's not what this is at all.  It's a tight space.  It'll make downtown feel more dense.

[Guest]

I had no idea this was going to be precast.  I was really doubting the "coming in 2020" banner, but this should rise pretty quick.  Letting the precast cure at Kerkstra instead of onsite has to save a ton of time (and money?)

[arcturus]

Wonder if Amazon's distribution center on 68th kickstarted Kerkstra.  That was one heckuva lot of precast.

[joeDowntown]

3 hours ago, MJLO said:

You don’t think they will paint or anything?

I hope not. They can put the color in the precast panel (look at 601 Bond which was done by Kerkstra). The only reason I say I hope not, is paint on concrete tends to make things look shabby every 10 years.

it looked to me like once these slabs go up, there’s a “ledge” that the second floor will sit on. So the first two floors may be up by Friday, and then a long wait as they pour the first and second floor?

Joe

[GRDadof3]

If you go by Kerksta's yard, at the far Eastern end are a bunch (a huge bunch) of panels standing up with window openings in them. I think they're for this project. 

[GVSUChris]

Taking shape! 

[GRDadof3]

34 minutes ago, GVSUChris said:

Taking shape! 

Must've just missed you Chris. 

I'm confused, the final building has to be taller than this crane, no? These panels have a very nice finish to them. I'd say they're in their finished look. 

 

 

 

[54equalsunity]

I also took a picture today!

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[GRDadof3]

2 hours ago, 54equalsunity said:

I also took a picture today!

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Niiiiceee!!

Here are the measurements again. It's about 164 feet tall so it's almost twice as tall the the CWD Building (50 Louis) at 89 feet. So this crane can't be it...

 

This image seems to be more like it:

[Raildude's dad]

21 hours ago, arcturus said:

Wonder if Amazon's distribution center on 68th kickstarted Kerkstra.  That was one heckuva lot of precast.

Kerkstra has been expanding in Grandville for years - both their building and storage property. Always had the yard stuff with curing precast.  Timpson trucked all the pieces to their Detroit projects.  On a delivery day there would be a "convey"of Timpson flatbeds on I-96.  A couple years ago they built the Detroit facility.  Amazon didn't kick start Kerkstra,  Kerkstra has been going gang busters for many years now. And they got started building septic tanks.

Edited June 19, 2019 by Raildude's dad

[joeDowntown]

Drove by tonight and they have horizontal cross beams (concrete) across most of the Fulton section. You can see a few in 54equalunity’s photo of you look close. Wonder if they’ll have the general shape of the building one this week?

Joe

[Raildude's dad]

It's basically a precast concrete lincoln log / erector set system. Fit them together, make the connections and move to the next. Look at the projects Kerkstra has done on their website, lots of pretty neat projects.

Edited June 19, 2019 by Raildude's dad

[GRDadof3]

1 hour ago, Raildude's dad said:

It's basically a precast concrete lincoln log / erector set system. Fit them together, make the connections and move to the next. Look at the projects Kerkstra has done on their website, lots of pretty neat projects.

They did 601 Bond.

[grandrollerz]

I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt it's Kerkstra, I took a plant tour there a few weeks ago and saw some of their tables with this building curing.

Could be a good idea for the next urban Planet Meetup?

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[GRDadof3]

The horizontal sections are definitely starting to take shape, especially the curved ones. You can really start to make out the shape and mass of this building. 

[MJLO]

[Guest]

It looks like they've been working on the ground floor the past few days?  Is that all prefab too?

[GVSUChris]

Steel! It’s starting to make more sense to me now. 

[JoeSchmo]

I was looking at one of the photos above.  The Backforty and Bdubs is going to start looking pretty tiny in their single and two story buildings.