SKYE Condominiums and Hyatt Place Hotel

[Mobuchu]

^^^^True

Couldn't he join another developer and help build it "up"? Or does he only like to go it alone?

[atlrvr]

To be honest, most of his deals, he just "franchises" his name. This is the case in Tampa, Denver, Dallas, and several in the South Florida area. He does very few deals personally, the exceptions being his NYC properties, the new Trump Int. Hotel in New Orleans, a project in Las Vegas, Chicago, and maybe 1 or 2 in South Florida. I'm not sure of his Atlanta proposal, but he was known to be shopping for a co-developer, and probably is taking the back seat. (I don't know at all about the Toronto deal)

It's a pretty sweet deal, he shows up, approves a location, approves a design, sticks a shovel in the ground for the camera, gets his name plastered all over a building, and takes home a nice cut of the profits.

[RiverwoodCLT]

Trump Buildings:

Now that is the business I should get in. Spend everyone else money and, put your name on a building and collect the profits.

Glad to see the Park going up now. It will look nice on the east side of uptown.

[Seabreeze]

I think it has already been announced pre-katrina that trump is building a tower in the big easy. He said that the plan was still a go after katrina. The building is beautifully designed! I hope Charlotte gets one.

[revitalize]

OKAY.....hate to be the bearer of bad news, but... i just looked out the window from my office and the CRANE at the Park has COLLAPSED onto the top of the parking deck - the base of the crane appears to have failed and buckled towards the building. The arm of the crane is draped over one of the elevator shafts hanging down onto Caldwell Street!!!! No LIE!!!!!!

WEIRD! hope nobody was hurt.

...I felt like i had to break the news here on the Park forum!

[atlrvr]

Not to make light of the situation before knowing if anyone was hurt, but I hope this incident makes it onto one of my favorite websites.

http://www.craneaccidents.com/start.htm

And don't miss my favoriate photo of all time.

http://www.craneaccidents.com/picker.htm

[uptowner]

Not to make light of the situation before knowing if anyone was hurt, but I hope this incident makes it onto one of my favorite websites.

http://www.craneaccidents.com/start.htm

And don't miss my favoriate photo of all time.

http://www.craneaccidents.com/picker.htm

See it live here: http://www.wsoctv.com/wxcam/1920383/detail.html

[MZT]

Oh my gosh.... craneaccidents.com? Man, people will blog anything.

[ilektronik]

the whole BellSouth Plaza building shook when it went down, I'm on the 14th floor of BSP (wachovia CIB land) and was actually in the elevator lobby and SAW it as it happened.

[eastsider]

See it live here: http://www.wsoctv.com/wxcam/1920383/detail.html

Man, looks worse than I had initially thought.

6News is now reporting live from the scene.

[nowensone]

If I was a suspicious person I'd say they'll do anything it takes to delay this project. Hard to tell what damage was done from the webcam though. Have any details NVQ?

[uptowner]

If I was a suspicious person I'd say they'll do anything it takes to delay this project. Hard to tell what damage was done from the webcam though. Have any details NVQ?

The story with video: http://www.wbtv.com/

[cinco]

OMG... how weird is this, something very similar happened in washington state last night.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/17/crane.col...e.ap/index.html

[uptownliving]

That is going to screw up the afternoon commute if 3rd St isn't reopened. Wow this project must be cursed. I hope no one was hurt.

[Blake5982]

Well, I always read this forum, but never post- generally have nothing of real value to add- however, today has been different. I was walking down Caldwell when the crane fell. I was about a 1/2 block away when the creaking sound began, stopped in my tracks, and looked up to see the crane wrap over the parking garage, down over the scaffolding, on top of the light signal, and to the pavement. I agree witht he earlier comment- the earth definitely shook.

The construction workers jumped out of their perches from various locations in the building and ran to the scene to check for injuries. Luckily no cars were driving by and fortunately, no one was hurt (at least, that I saw in the 5 minutes I stood there). The light signal at 3rd and Caldwell (cars traveling on Caldwell across 3rd) was destroyed.

Relatively surreal, the crane looked like a piece of cooked spaghetti as it bent and folded over the obstructions. The sound was deafening.

Semi-ironic, walking home for lunch instead of eating out to avoid the "dangers" of fried, greasy restaurant food.

[Neo]

For histroric sake here is the image from the webcam:

[monsoon]

Oh my. Its a bad omen for sure for that place.

[SmellyCat]

wow...they may rename Murphy's Law "Verna's Law"

[uptownliving]

News14 reports that in addition to the damaged streetlight a guy was driving down the street and noticed an "odd shadow" moving across the street, then he saw a cable fall down and heard people yelling...he swerved as fast as he could to avoid the falling crane and luckily it only scraped his car. A very close call today.

[Miesian Corners]

There are no words. Wonder if they'll get a tower crane now?

[monsoon]

Oddly enough, all of the news places have their helecopters elsewhere in the city were there has been an ongoing chase of armed robbers, who have crashed into a neighborhood and are now holed up there. Maybe someone here can go get a photo for us.

[Miesian Corners]

mobuchu is on his way now...

[turbocraig]

Ha! I LOVE the fact that the UP Network can dispatch a member to the scene within moments to get a first-hand report.

[cyrusuncc]

i hope they hurry up and clear it! i have to go see Blue Man Group tonight, and i don't want any traffic delays!

[swh1972]

Observer was reporting that it was not known whether the crane was part of the Park Condo project...obviously they have not read this thread lately.