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I really hope this is a success, if they can get some buzz going and pull the same type of crowd as Pins I think it will be

It could be the sun but that doesn't even look like the same color? The original was like a golden yellow, that looks pretty red?

Do we know how tall Vera is? That's a 5 over 2 (wood over concrete podium) which is likely what I would expect here as well Above that costs go up from requiring all steel or concrete

Interesting. NBBJ was the design architect for the Industry building immediately to the south

Why? It's a 244 space garage with only 125 reserved for public use. It provides employee parking for office tenants at wood's 711 N High, who would not be parked there overnight I'm not sure how many apartments are in the carriage trade building, but its surface lot only has ~25 spaces. So, not a stretch by any means Additionally, any redevelopment of the surface lot would likely include some additional parking as well. Parkside on Pearl includes ~46 spaces

The completion of wood's new parking garage at Lincoln and Pearl imo changes the calculus. He can now easily switch the residential tenants to parking in the garage instead, which opens up the surface lot for development I've heard rumors but nothing concrete that this is in the works

The building home to Brassica, El Segundo, etc, next to Monarch Its surface lot is pretty big, you could fit another Parkside on Pearl right there

Speaking of wood I feel like we might see a proposal for the surface parking lot behind the carriage trade building come next

Wood is the highest quality developer in the city IMO My personal rank for quality of design/construction would be Wood, NRI, Pizzuti, Kaufman, ... everybody else lol Edwards would be in there too if they were somewhat more consistent ... Are we going to get Neighborhood Launch (amazing) or Highline on 9 (barf)? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ A (dis)honorable mention for worst developer I would give to Carter - responsible for inflicting HighPoint on the world, but thankfully it seems like they were a one and done for our market I think we all understandably get caught up in wanting things to be bigger and bolder, but when you look at it overall especially compared to some peer cities I think we're really lucky to have a high number of high quality developers working in our urban neighborhoods

I think wood will be pretty tied up for the next few years anyway, but we still might see a proposal for this site sooner than we will its eventual construction They've only now got Parkside on Pearl well underway (proposed 2015?) and the 12 (?) story proposal across Hubbard is probably next in the queue

Nice seeing updates on that one! It's a bit more tucked away in the neighborhood so I don't see it's progress as often Really excited for the activity and boost this will give to the restaurant/retail cluster on Oak

I believe the orginal early 00s installation was fiber optics lit by beacons concealed in the supports on each end. The design was flawed, and never functioned as intended. Water leakage into the system and other problems led the arches to emit nothing but a limp, sickly green glow for years until the city gave in and just turned them off entirely Finally they were rewired with the LED system we have today, and I doubt anyone can imagine the SN without them

That entire portion is new, they are just skinning the facade to match the existing James building Compare this 2016 streetview with the photo below by @CbusOrBust https://goo.gl/maps/Ej3RCWdP1tEPyTRt8 The line along the right edge of the new construction is the previous edge of the existing building

It's not my favorite but I'll admit I actually prefer the borg cube side of 80 Commons vs the park-facing 😬 Agree though that the balconies are desolate and understandably seem like they receive little use, the recessed ones on 250 are much more hospitable The original proposal was taller, 17 or 18 story?, and looked better overall IMO Also this discussion is getting us off-topic from the PNC Plaza and might belong better elsewhere

Along the main 5th avenue frontage ... moving from east to west there appears to be: A decent sized commercial space at the corner with Gerrard (good) Dead space for 8 double stacked spaces (bad) Another small commercial space (good) Another dead space for 8 double stacked spaces (bad) Another small commercial space (good) Another dead space for 8 double stacked spaces (bad) Dead space for a water meter room (bad - these are usually located off a side street or rear alley)

I'm once again devastated that's a sewer tunnel map and not a subway 😪

It helps that 5th is pretty narrow so unless you're coming off one of the low traffic side streets you won't really ever be facing the monster head on Also the fact that the bar has been set pretty low in terms of quality (view on fifth *cough*) in the area already I will say it's a shame that retail or at least some kind of active use isn't continuous along the street edge, so we'll be getting two three sections of blank walls all for the sake of 24(?) parking spaces? Double-stacked even

At first glance I was very impressed that Delaware had a proposal for a large amount of Section 8 housing in such a prominent location This gets us close to Austin Powers "preparations A through G have failed ..." territory 😂

What is the reason the state historic preservation office has any say in this whatsoever? I may have missed it, but haven't seen that mentioned at all Is it because CMHA is involved? Does the state own the property? Are they seeking state funds? Is it some kind of requirement tied to low income housing tax credits? Can anyone shed some light

Happy to have the units, but what an awful disconnected jumble of surface parking lots sprinkled with copy-paste stick builds The most offensive part of this is I believe all three of these projects are brought to us by the same developer (Preferred Living 🙄) Why couldn't there be some connectivity to help this feel like an actual neighborhood?

The new building along Town looks great, I'm less enthusiastic about the land use proposed for the corner of State and Grant... This was the previous building on that site until demolished in the late 90s

Great news about the potential development on Spring St! There was a previous proposal for this lot maybe about 10 (?) or so years ago, that unfortunately went nowhere other than getting the former nightclub building demolished Obviously the neighborhood is a lot more attractive today with everything that's happened on Long St over the last decade, and Pizzuti has gained a lot more experience on what works downtown with their Library Park projects

Unfortunately the city was pretty desperate when it came to downtown development in the 2005-2010 era when those original LC and HP deals were struck

Just like on Gay St I think the lower garden level units add a lot to this project and I'm glad they went through the effort to include them

1000% they should demolish HighPoint to the ground and do it over again