Harbor Heights Progress

[spiker3]

Nice shots, spiker! I like how the bottom floor is darker. Is that what everyone has been talking about?

[okinawatyphoon]

vtfan was talking about the singular red panel i took the picture of. The black, i think, helps as an adhesive for mounting

[rusthebuss]

that looks like a concrete seal coat.

[urbanfan]

that looks like a concrete seal coat.

[OVgman]

Thanks for all of the pictures guys, I moved to Philadelphia 3 months ago after 13 years in Norfolk. They are the only way I can keep up.

[gosscj]

Off topic, but you're in Philadelphia? Me too - I moved there in August. In what part of town are you living?

[OVgman]

Off topic, but you're in Philadelphia? Me too - I moved there in August. In what part of town are you living?

[spiker3]

Since that'ss a tease new posting, here's some tidbit of new info.

They've begun erecting scaffolding along the front exterior of the building, i believe to begin putting the final exterior panels up. June is coming fast!!

[cpeakesqr]

You can see Harbor Heights pretty well coming off the Western Freeway into the midtown tunnel.

[Sky06]

You can see Harbor Heights pretty well coming off the Western Freeway into the midtown tunnel.

[vdogg]

How close are they to topping out? We're talking 18 floors?

[vdogg]

I could be wrong but I count 15 floors now and if I go behind the building it looks like they're putting up columns for a 16th floor. Perhaps this building will be 16 actual floors after all.

[erdogs]

I always thought it was 17.

[vdogg]

I always thought it was 17.

[erdogs]

Do they still do that?

[erdogs]

I've actually heard conflicting things. I asked my friend at planning if he could confirm that the height had increased to 17, and he said YES, and he also said he thought that an extra level of parking had been added. so that is 18 floors. then he wrote back and said a friend of his only counted 15 proposed floors and that it still needed approval. Now that is has approval, I'm not sure what the final floor count will be.

[vdogg]

Don't know if this has been posted yet, but some people were wondering about the breakdown in floor uses.

Building Overview

The first level

features the market place at Harbor heights

The second level

features public parking for market patrons

The third and fourth level

feature private parking for residents only

The fifth and sixth levels

feature Class A office space for Tidewater Community College.

The seventh though ninth levels

will be comprised of lofts finished with concrete ceilings and floors

and ten foot ceilings.

The tenth though sixteenth levels

will feature the condos.

Condo fees will start in the high $200's

Entrance of the Residential part of the building will be an elegant lobby

with a desk,, 2 elevators and a mail room on college place.

[erdogs]

[gosscj]

The rendering on the Harbor Heights website is clearly only 15 floors, but there is an ornamental element that extends slightly above the top floor - maybe this is what they're working on. Then again, Norfolk.gov still shows a twelve-floor rendering so it's possible the one on the website is not the most current design.

[Sky06]

The rendering on the Harbor Heights website is clearly only 15 floors, but there is an ornamental element that extends slightly above the top floor - maybe this is what they're working on. Then again, Norfolk.gov still shows a twelve-floor rendering so it's possible the one on the website is not the most current design.

[gosscj]

Maybe not, but since they're on the 14th now (correct?), then 12 isn't right either.

[spiker3]

They've taken down the construction fence along Boush for some reason, there's a few concrete highway partitions, but that's it....curious

[Chesapeake Pirate]

I'm still staying in the left lane on Boush heading north!

[lammius]

Y'know it's been a long time since we've seen any pics...

[johnhowell]

Y'know it's been a long time since we've seen any pics...