sizzlinbeef

Hard to decide which post to quote. I guess I'll try this one. The writing has been on the wall for a while. MM is beholden to those tax incentives they agreed to with the city of Brooklyn when they signed the lease to the old AG building. I think those run to 2025. So there were headcount guarantees involved which meant that with so many of the call center and other departments moving to full-time work at home, the headcounts weren't there (and thus city of Brooklyn income taxes) with the departments that were originally slated for Brooklyn pre-covid. The 'solution' was to ship other departments from the Rose building to Brooklyn. Believe it or not, once the return to office plans were announced and people started filtering back in, the Rose building was somewhat populated again. However, when reality set in and the shifting of departments to Brooklyn started over the past 6-9 months the building went literally dark. I didn't hear from anyone who was particularly excited about being moved to Brooklyn. Parking is not the issue it's being made out to be; there's plenty to be found downtown these days. In fact, with the rash of catalytic converter thefts from the Brooklyn parking lot, you might say parking downtown was a safer bet. (Some) Rose building workers do use RTA. There is no viable RTA route from the eastside to Brooklyn. I would assume most east-siders would opt to go WAH than face, as has been noted earlier, a doubling of their commute and dealing with the insanity of 480. Either way, the announced vacating of the Rose building is really just an announcement of what's already happened.

Looks like a waterproofing sheet membrane or a capillary break.

I went there once shortly before they closed because I had forgotten to bring a pair of gym shorts for the gym after work. They had precisely one kind of athletic shorts to buy. I got the smallest size they had, in the only color they had (that tarheels baby blue color) and they were still extremely long and baggy on me and I'm a shade over 6'4. I wouldn't get your hopes up.

Interestingly, there's been work going on inside the old Family Sportswear store in this complex the past couple of days. There's a dumpster outside and they're clearing out junk. So it seems something besides demolition is going on. I can't imagine Stark is leasing space in there in it's dilapidated state.

Ronayne for Executive Crayne

It's a great site for a shipping container storage facility.

Something big is on fire near 55th.

Right. If you're removing the fountain anyway, why constrain yourself to the basin of the old fountain, unless you're just being cheap?

I think that's just the bottom of the 'cage' so to speak. Lumen for reference:

You could feel them breaking up the old foundation of the Hippodrome from inside the Rose building.

Frank Capri strikes again?

There were no fares for downtown circulator trolleys. I don't recall them being rolling homeless shelters.

https://www.facebook.com/uptownnutrition/ Checks all the boxes, yep.

So after multiple attempts this is the best my circa-2015 phone could do while in motion. This is looking over 75th.

It looks like they've starting clearing the land for the cold storage facility north of the green/blue line and south of opportunity corridor betwen 75th and 79th. I'll try to snap a pic on my ride home tonight.

All of Euclid from 6th to 9th was closed at the very beginning. Then westbound opened up later, and yes the healthline has been detouring on prospect the whole time.

They've been doing sitework/excavation every day. Also some significant utilties or gas line work at E9th/Euclid that may be related to the project.

I was in the area when it happened. It was a short lived fist fight between the two individuals then a single shot (LOUD) in front of the FEB apartment building. The area was fortunately desolate besides a few construction workers.

Is that the same Robert Pence as the late Robert Pence that once was a regular poster here?

Interesting, where are those balconies located? And that first tiled backsplash....yikes.

Fertilized every day...

I attempted a traverse of the Frank Jacknife on my lunch break today. Alas, it's still blocked off by construction equipment and fencing. Quite fitting.

Omni International Hotel https://www.independencedemolition.com/projects/omni-international-hotel-demolition

Is free parking included with your job then?