Alabama-based firm to redevelop the Ambassador Hotel

[Tacachale]

Looks good. Projects like this will make the difference. The city needs to do what they can to help it get done.

[urbaknight]

I'll believe it when I see it , I'm not getting excited anymore. Just look at the Brooklyn project that's not going to happen now. Furthermore, I'm even willing to bet money at this point, that this great project will never happen, nor will the Laura st trio, the Bokstwick, the Barnett building or Burkman II. I hear that Latitude 360 is also dead.

Is our urban core cursed and doomed at the hands of suburbia?

Are we just living in a fantasy world and kidding ourselves?     

[jcjohnpaint]

Well I guess you never know.  Still staying positive on this one. 

[JFman00]

All small 1 BRs and studios? So it's a rental version of 311 W Ashley.

[downtownjag]

1 bedrooms are about the only thing in demand in the CBD; I think that's the right decision for the most part.  I didn't see if there's any 2 bd's in the mix though...

[simms3]

As others have said...I'll believe it when I see it.

[Timkin]

^  Agree... But certainly hope it happens.   There was a poster on MJ a few years back who said this particular building would never be renovated.


One should always have hope.

[JFman00]

I'd be all over a downtown 1BR if it weren't a shoebox.

[MusicMan]

"Just look at the Brooklyn project that's not going to happen now."  Please elaborate.

[tufsu1]

"Just look at the Brooklyn project that's not going to happen now."  Please elaborate.

referring to Lincoln pulling out of the Pope & Land project....which doesn't necessarily mean it won't happen

[thelakelander]

It just means Lincoln won't be involved.

[Ocklawaha]

Send out a City/JTA news release on a new Skyway station in Brooklyn and a streetcar line from downtown through Brooklyn to Riverside and watch Brooklyn and LaVilla explode with new development.

[thelakelander]

how does a glass and steel top floor addition maintain the historical character of a brick building?  Are there pictures of a glass greenhouse on top from long ago?

Because it doesn't attempt to copy the historic components of the building with cheap mass produced modern materials.  You'll easily be able to tell between new and old.  However, given the height of the building and urban context, you probably won't be able to see this addition from the street.  As to the contrast of old and new, which maintains historic character, here are a few examples from across the US:




Indianapolis Central Library


Near Petco Park in San Diego.


In Downtown Washington, DC.

[urbanlibertarian]

This is good news.  It would really be great if the Independent Life/JEA building could get renovated and used.

[mbwright]

I'm just saying I don't see these design blending.  Your examples prove my point.