Tower at Main & Gervais

[BrasilnSC]

I agree, the 13th floor crap is ridiculous, lol. Thanks for the photo, the link under in I Miss Columbia's post works.

[CorgiMatt]

They're putting on some pretty, slick granite or tile, or hard plastic material of some type, on the parking garage part of the building overlooking Gervais. It looks good. The colors are very subtle - blue-gray-green.

[growingup15]

I drove by the tower today and it see they started to put alot more glass on the exterior. i took some pictures.

[krazeeboi]

Interesting shade/tint. It appears a little too reflective for my tastes in the above pictures, but I'm guessing it changes a little depending on the amount of sunlight hitting it/shining through.

The Edens & Avant space will be pursuing LEED-certification according to this article in the Free Times. The whole building should be LEED-certified, but it doesn't help that the city isn't providing any incentives for developers to pursue LEED certification. That needs to change ASAP. Columbia needs to focus on not just being a hub of hydrogen fuel cell production, but on being a greener city overall. Providing incentives for builders who incorporate green building features into their projects is a necessary first step.

[BrasilnSC]

Taken last week around noon.

[Spartan]

It looks like the blue thats on the old Wachovia Building down the street.

[CorgiMatt]

The old Wachovia building is supposed to not only get lobby renovation, but also a re-skinning of its entire exterior, so it will be interesting to see how different it looks from TMG. Actually TMG's has a greener color. It's going to be a pretty solid green addition to the skyline, whereas the Wachovia building is only greenish depending on the reflection of the sky at different times.

[waccamatt]

The old Wachovia building is supposed to not only get lobby renovation, but also a re-skinning of its entire exterior, so it will be interesting to see how different it looks from TMG. Actually TMG's has a greener color. It's going to be a pretty solid green addition to the skyline, whereas the Wachovia building is only greenish depending on the reflection of the sky at different times.

[krazeeboi]

I wish the glass were less reflective and more transparent. But I'll wait for the finished product, or close to it, to have an official opinion about it.

[Spartan]

The old Wachovia building is supposed to not only get lobby renovation, but also a re-skinning of its entire exterior, so it will be interesting to see how different it looks from TMG. Actually TMG's has a greener color. It's going to be a pretty solid green addition to the skyline, whereas the Wachovia building is only greenish depending on the reflection of the sky at different times.

[BrasilnSC]

Taken last week around noon.

[CorgiMatt]

I noticed looking at it from Richland County Public Library today that from that angle there are no bunched steel rods sticking up past the top level. If you notice in the pic from today, the top rear left corner is one floor higher that the level that has the steel rods sticking up above it. Judging by every building I've ever watched being built, when they stop putting steel rods above the floor they're working on, it means the floor they're working on is the top-out floor. If I'm right, it's not going to have much height at all from that angle. Let's hope I'm wrong, because while I've said I'm not into height for height's sake, I have said I'm into dimension, and in this case there won't be much dimension from that angle if that floor is the top one.

Wait, wait.... as soon as I entered my post I looked again and do I not see some bunched steel rods sticking up above the top floor on the left? Maybe they just haven't yet put them on the side where you can see them from RCPL.

[BrasilnSC]

If the rendering is correct, there are three more floors to go looking at the picture above.

[CorgiMatt]

I scoped it out from all angles after work, guys. It very much appears that they are 3/4 of the way to the completion of the framing of the top floor. There are no steel rods going up above it. It looks very capped off. If I'm correct we are getting a 14-story green glass block. Maybe the economy knocked off four floors.

[scnative]

Got word from a pretty reliable source that the restaurant in the tower will be High Cotton. This location would make sense as they have two other locations, Charleston and Greenville. Columbia would seem to be the next move! I think this would be a great addition to our city!

High Cotton

[krazeeboi]

I scoped it out from all angles after work, guys. It very much appears that they are 3/4 of the way to the completion of the framing of the top floor. There are no steel rods going up above it. It looks very capped off. If I'm correct we are getting a 14-story green glass block. Maybe the economy knocked off four floors.

[waccamatt]

I scoped it out from all angles after work, guys. It very much appears that they are 3/4 of the way to the completion of the framing of the top floor. There are no steel rods going up above it. It looks very capped off. If I'm correct we are getting a 14-story green glass block. Maybe the economy knocked off four floors.

[CorgiMatt]

I hope I'm wrong. The floor they're working on now is the first one they've gotten this far on without going ahead and putting up the steel bars to support the next floor. And judging by every building I've ever watched being built, those steel bars should have been erected by now. Maybe the building will be taller toward the Gervais and Main corner where the tallest floor right now is the floor beneath the floor I'm talking about.

[dobboard]

I have a feeling it is going to look (same number of floors) just like the rendering on the corner.

[GamecockEngineer]

[krazeeboi]

I may be wrong, but I think there is a half level of parking right above the rectangular base and the office floors start above that one.

[CorgiMatt]

My partner says the steel rods I've been talking about are called re-bar. I am happy to report that I saw re-bar extending upward beyond the level of the floor they're working on now, but only on the Main Street side of the building where they haven't come all the way over with that floor yet. The rods are only about half the height of the spacing between each floor. He says they'll put the same number of rods extending from the tops of those rods up to the height of the next ceiling (or floor, depending on how you look at it). So I think we're good, but I'm not sure. I don't know what's taking them so long to put the re-bar above the part of that floor that they have built. Usually they do it before now.

[waccamatt]

I may be wrong, but I think there is a half level of parking right above the rectangular base and the office floors start above that one.

[krazeeboi]

Here's the rendering, just as a refresher:

Since I only count 16 regular floors, I think the corner box feature is considered the "17th floor."

[I Miss Columbia]

The rendering is 4 stories taller than the tower is now...unless I counted incorrectly. I hope it goes the full way up!