Urban Construction Update - April 2015

[jaxjaguar]

Wow, 200,000 sq ft... That's gonna be a nice mid-rise/10ish story unless they sprawl it out across the entire block.

[thelakelander]

They don't own the entire block, so assuming they built to the property lines on the entire site (highly doubtful), they'd have roughly 86,000 square feet per floor to play with. A building that size would need service areas, drop off zones, parking for employees, patients, etc. So yes, we're probably looking at a decent sized mid-rise structure. For comparisons sake, the 339,404-square foot J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver Tower  is 11-stories. Depending on how parking is handled this project will probably be in the five to ten story range.

[Downtown Osprey]

FYI got an e-mail from the Y yesterday that said they will finally begin construction this month, with an estimated finish time of 15 months. 

[thelakelander]

Great!

[jcjohnpaint]

Didn't realize this tread changed.  Here is the 100,000 MD Anderson in NJ. 4 stories

[thelakelander]

It didn't change. There are two threads. One is specifically for the cancer center and this one is a general construction/development update thread.

[simms3]

They don't own the entire block, so assuming they built to the property lines on the entire site (highly doubtful), they'd have roughly 86,000 square feet per floor to play with. A building that size would need service areas, drop off zones, parking for employees, patients, etc. So yes, we're probably looking at a decent sized mid-rise structure. For comparisons sake, the 339,404-square foot J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver Tower  is 11-stories. Depending on how parking is handled this project will probably be in the five to ten story range.

Not to get anyone's hopes up for a skyscraper but they just put 389K office in 27 stories/380 ft here in SF and nearby they are putting 411K sf in the lower 550 ft of an 802 ft skyscraper.  Tiny floor plates for boutique office though, not medical use.  This could easily be a 5-6+ story building, but that would still be quite visible for Jax.

[BoldCityRealist]

220 and Brooklyn Riverside sure turned out a lot more "blah" than the renderings.

What don't you like about them? They are very urban in design and fit into the area very well.

220 Doesn't have the big eaves that are shown on the rendering and the colors are a lot more subdued.  Brooklyn riverside is painted all doctors office beige, compare that to the renderings they've put out which was a lot more eye catching (some might argue in a bad way but I liked it)

The pictures in the article show units that haven't been painted yet. The Brooklyn Riverside units that are open and occupied are painted exactly like the rendering.


If we are on the subject of color schemes... not only is the taxpayer-subsidized Parador parking garage that allowed a private landowner to flip a property for millions a bad thing fundamentally for downtown on such prime space (the retail will likely never be built now that there is a new ownership group), the half-@ssed pinkish color scheme is atrocious.

The new garage downtown is despicable and gives me little hope for this city. Sorry for being dramatic.

[BoldCityRealist]

Pretty sure the lot will be used for parking.

Aw darn. I guess I can see the need, from a business owner perspective. But I do love the idea of it being an outdoor space - picnic tables, cornhole, volleyball nets??

[thelakelander]

^BoldCityRealist, it's going to be used as the site of the new Baptist-MD Anderson Cancer Center. It should be a decent sized building since they want it to be around 200k square feet.