Among other reasons…
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Clearly a well thought out urban center will have a collection of different height buildings and public spaces. Agreed that you can’t have every parcel built to a maximum height. That would be dystopian in lived experience. What a well thought out city center doesn’t have is a collection of surface lot parking.
I fully support appropriate height rezoning, and parcels that get it should have a deadline for submitting for permitting. I wouldn’t suggest a short 1-2 year window for it, but a project should be officially initiated within 5-7 years IMO. If they don’t make the timeline, then they lose the rezoning and have to start all over again. If a developer isn’t going to leverage what the rezoning provides them, then they should stop wasting the city’s time as a mechanism to just line their pockets because the city just made the land more valuable. Also, if a developer is rezoning to a certain height, then they should at least come close to maximizing it. For example, if they get 30 floors in a successful rezoning, then they should be building 25-30, not 15-20.
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I wish the live feed cam would either zoom out or tilt up. I didn’t realize they had added more vertical steel since last week. Thanks for the picture!!
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Yeah exactly the same thought. So what we’re seeing is the final height. This definitely fills in the gap from this angle with a decent sized building.
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lol I noticed that too
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Posted in another thread, but this is a webcam of the other side of the project from the Science Museum.
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Wish I could chop it in half, stack it, then put housing next to it….
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I wish they’d just build something on the other half of the property instead of just a big plaza. They could’ve sold half the property to a developer and the government project would’ve paid for itself. Use the allocated money to give teachers raises across the state. But then what do I know. I’m no expert politician.
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but but but then how would they build a secret building they won’t tell us anything about with all our money???
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tough one. i used to work downtown during FSM era. it made a nice lunchtime gathering place…free from exhaust, plenty of seating and some plantings (some pot near the sir wr statue) . this rest stop south of GSO incorporates some pollinator plants, seating, picnic tables. there is still some concentrated indoor employment downtown. maybe some outdoor common space is desired for lunch or what have you.
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Just wanted to illustrate how transformative the Creamery tower is going to be… This is my best guesstimate at final height, but even if I’m a little off, it’s going to be easily the most transformative project since 2008’s completion of PNC tower. This thing is going to be seen from so many angles.
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Should be the mechanical penthouse floor, yes.
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It’s much taller than I would have expected so I’m really hoping it has decent cladding
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