August 1, 20186 yr Wow - is it actually going to be that much taller? Those beams are like 3 floors in height... Maybe I dont understand what I am seeing though :)
August 1, 20186 yr I count 16 floors of above-garage steel completed in MayDay[/member]'s photo. That means there's three more to go. And based on those six new vertical supports visible, it appears that three more floors are what's yet to come. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
August 1, 20186 yr So according to the website, the building is going to be 29 stories. I wasn't aware that the garage added that much more to the building. Also when this building tops out we can use it as a measuring stick for the PHS tower. This tower is 355' and the PHS tower is 396'.
August 2, 20186 yr Here are some fun views, taken today ... from several different angles we don't see everyday! :-)
August 3, 20186 yr anyone seen this from the towpath trail yet? its very substantial. i'll try to grab a shot next week.
August 3, 20186 yr What is the white building is in the foreground of the Key tower? Superior Building, 815 Superior Ave. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
August 3, 20186 yr What is the white building is in the foreground of the Key tower? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_Building
August 5, 20186 yr So according to the website, the building is going to be 29 stories. I wasn't aware that the garage added that much more to the building. Also when this building tops out we can use it as a measuring stick for the PHS tower. This tower is 355' and the PHS tower is 396'. As side note, if anyone is curious, the tallest tree on the planet a Coast Redwood called Hyperion tops out at 380 ft! The closest highrise in cleveland would be The 9 at 383'.
August 5, 20186 yr Like others have mentioned. I am little surprised of the height coming from this. Also as others mentioned wish they balance it out with some height on other side of Euclid. Going to be a nice fill. Edit* Is this going to have a flat roof or an inclined one?
August 6, 20186 yr I agree that the south side of the Euclid Corridor needs to be built up. The Lumen is a good start.
August 7, 20186 yr Thanks to all that have provided great photos of The Beacon rising - great to see. Someone mentioned buildings with comparable height - Eaton Center, at 356 feet, is exactly 1 foot taller than the Beacon will be - Cleveland States’ Rhodes taller is also very close in height, at 363 feet.
August 13, 20186 yr Nice. I think my least favorite aspect of 515 is the aesthetic of the original parking garage, but have to say that at night the garage section is looking really cool.
August 13, 20186 yr If there is an UrbanOhio photo award contest, one of these ought to be a 2018 finalist! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
August 13, 20186 yr Nice. I think my least favorite aspect of 515 is the aesthetic of the original parking garage, but have to say that at night the garage section is looking really cool. It may be dated, but at least they put some thought into aesthetics when they built the thing - most garages downtown seem are just big ugly gray boxes.
August 14, 20186 yr Nice. I think my least favorite aspect of 515 is the aesthetic of the original parking garage, but have to say that at night the garage section is looking really cool. It may be dated, but at least they put some thought into aesthetics when they built the thing - most garages downtown seem are just big ugly gray boxes. At least the garage above the Tilted Kilt is a big ugly tan box and not gray! :)
August 16, 20186 yr Another day, another Beacon photo: clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
August 16, 20186 yr Nice. I think my least favorite aspect of 515 is the aesthetic of the original parking garage, but have to say that at night the garage section is looking really cool. It may be dated, but at least they put some thought into aesthetics when they built the thing - most garages downtown seem are just big ugly gray boxes. At least the garage above the Tilted Kilt is a big ugly tan box and not gray! :) Cleveland has quite a few ugly parking garages. My least favorite are the blank box tower city parking garage and the 55 Public Sq parkinging garage which unfortunately will not see new life in the near future as K&D pulled out. The city seems to be fighting for more attractive garage spaces with no dead zones (they pushed for street front retail at the Lumen).
August 17, 20186 yr I know that a building is not officially topped off until the last piece of steel is installed. But from Mayday's picture, it appears that the roof height is topped off on the East side of the building. The steel in the middle is for the elevators and the rooftop social space (as the Beacon website calls it).
August 17, 20186 yr i really like those offset facade windows. they are kind of trippy. anyway this project is looking good.
August 21, 20186 yr Topped out: https://www.facebook.com/TheBeaconCLE/?hc_ref=ARSItpt6aycsEikgXsDNltyr-z0uoHusaKS7Hoq9Oz3dqn5EzOlj921Nldkd9kVkOTQ&fref=nf&__xts__[0]=68.ARBe_f_X6IfszXRRqDjWNEUApLdIxavM2l8rpx-hc7UAD8FOhN1M5bUFtYNkCMOhDW1BiUv8Z6eLGktFQSM84mlWHgKpKmOVdozEOD5Az8ownJumyDTKBZn5hK2C5Ymx0uTHlvTwEFsH&__tn__=kC-R
August 25, 20186 yr Topped out: https://www.facebook.com/TheBeaconCLE/?hc_ref=ARSItpt6aycsEikgXsDNltyr-z0uoHusaKS7Hoq9Oz3dqn5EzOlj921Nldkd9kVkOTQ&fref=nf&__xts__[0]=68.ARBe_f_X6IfszXRRqDjWNEUApLdIxavM2l8rpx-hc7UAD8FOhN1M5bUFtYNkCMOhDW1BiUv8Z6eLGktFQSM84mlWHgKpKmOVdozEOD5Az8ownJumyDTKBZn5hK2C5Ymx0uTHlvTwEFsH&__tn__=kC-R I am quite surprised that the topping out has not had more publicity and hype. I did not even see anything on the local news. To me, this is big news. I was beginning to think it was fake news. Then I came across this from the Stark Enterprises website. By the way, they have redone the website and it is much more attractive. http://www.starkenterprises.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Stark-Insights-The-Beacon-2018.pdf Does anyone have pictures of how the topped off version fits into the skyline?
August 25, 20186 yr Fake news? ::) I guess political buzzwords make me slightly nauseous...This project makes me smile every time I see it, unlike the empty lot called nuCLEus, which seems like a WITCH HUNT by the way. They should just BUILD A WALL around that property! I give Stark credit, he's a real MAVERICK though! Okay, now that THAT'S out of my system...
August 25, 20186 yr Congrats to Everbody/anybody associated with Stark Enterprises (which I am definitely not) on the topping out of the substantial Beacon project - The Forum has its critics of Stark a la “big talk, not always much action” but he seems to be one of a few with a vision that actually produces for Cleveland - and I love the idea that he is audacious enough to envision a big city project like Nucleus which I’m still rooting for. But this is the Beacon thread- so congrats to those making it happen and to the Euclid Avenue neighborhood that should become more lively when the Beacon opens. And it’s nice to see one of those gaps in the skyline filled in.
August 25, 20186 yr Does anyone have pictures of how the topped off version fits into the skyline? I took this at about 6:30AM on August 5th from about 4 miles out in Lake Erie. I think the building was still a floor or two away from top-out, but it gives you an idea of how Beacon adds to the city. As we steamed towards the harbor entrance Beacon moved more impressively to the center of the gap between 200 PS and the Fed Bldg. Remember: It's the Year of the Snake
August 25, 20186 yr ^Love the view from the water. A few from yesterday along the Innerbelt clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
August 25, 20186 yr I know it's not going to last long, but that yellow isn't a bad color for a city with gray winters. Remember: It's the Year of the Snake
August 31, 20186 yr Keep them coming! I had to move back to Miami so I'll be out of the loop again :'(
August 31, 20186 yr Does anyone have pictures of how the topped off version fits into the skyline? I took this at about 6:30AM on August 5th from about 4 miles out in Lake Erie. I think the building was still a floor or two away from top-out, but it gives you an idea of how Beacon adds to the city. As we steamed towards the harbor entrance Beacon moved more impressively to the center of the gap between 200 PS and the Fed Bldg. Nucleus would fill in that gap?
August 31, 20186 yr ^I don't think so. I think the tower part of the development would be located more behind Beacon in that picture. You would be able to see it behind Beacon due to its current proposed height (but maybe not if the height is decreased as suggested by some in the Nucleus thread).
August 31, 20186 yr ^yeah I take my post back. I just check the siting again and saw the tower is planned to be closer to 4th than I remembered. I had thought it was more mid block.
August 31, 20186 yr PHS Tower (Lumen) will be 34 stories and 396 feet tall. Erieview is 38/40 and 529 feet. Not sure of their heights as measured in feet, however. So the Lumen as shown is probably too tall, but we didn't know better at the time. Hippodrome Tower was the name we gave to a new Medical Mutual HQ, if they had consolidated their NE Ohio offices downtown. Alas, they did not. We also didn't ID a Sherwin-Williams tower, instead generalizing it as Jacobs Lot Tower. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 3, 20186 yr I really don't like that version, It encompasses old ideas that have no chance of being ever completed. Instead have this one with the 'current new' up and coming. Whenever 515 gets finished I would like to volunteer MayDay to retake the picture to meet current changes, alot has actually been done since 2009, and it's a great photo op.
September 3, 20186 yr ^Yeah, at some point in the fall I’d like to update that shot, maybe when the crane is up for Lumen. That view is from West Schaaf Road at Hinckley Industrial Parkway. clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
September 3, 20186 yr I had no idea the view from there was that good. Beacon looks like it fills in part of a nice gap from that vantage too. I look forward to seeing an updated picture. Also, in another Cleveland, that would have been a great location for some mid/highrise mixed use to capitalize on the views, instead of a suburban industrial park. (off topic I know, but just an observation).
September 7, 20186 yr A progress photo. Never posted a photo before so I hope this works. Shot this past Wednesday, 9/5.
September 7, 20186 yr Nice, I took a photo yesterday, different perspective though: Beacon Progress 9.6.18 by Andrew Lang, on Flickr
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