Well the city council essentially made Kane build a floor or two in this tower at a loss of profit. So I suspect that it will raise the cost for everybody else who wants to live in this building…
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Well, if he wasn’t planning on going the full 40 stories to begin with, I bet good money he is now!
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And, all residing there will use the same entrance. Right?
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If it would really throw a monkey wrench into their financing, why agree to it in the first place? Seems a little fishy and posturing. They could have withdrawn the request and waited for the next council or have the council turn it down and wait two years to submit a new rezoning request.
That, or they’ll say ‘We did it your way, and it didn’t work. We’ll just take our toys and go home.’
And, come back with the next Council as noted.
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One wild a guess is will come back with a design of 15% of units in tower in SE counter of project, and rest of units, retail and office in 40story tower (go big to make it work) on North end of project with parking deck in between. With affordable units having a lower finish detail.
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Bet he has it all figured out.
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I just want some concept art now.
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Yes. Pretty pictures!!
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And then we can all complain about how boring it is.
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Or how ugly the parking deck is…
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Or critiquing the folks in the renderings. 
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That’s my favorite part! 
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News broke by @R-Dub but I wanted to use my window cam. 2 cranes now in Smoky Hollow!
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Ah yes, the big boys. Kane does not delay. I should have known not to ask anything when they threw up three stories in like 2 days then no visible action for almost a week…
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Actually a lot happened in that week. Various other pieces and parts (cross bars, first layer of flooring, etc). And lots of welding. Sorry the lower quality pic than normal but it’s my window cam as I’m not home.
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I’m curious if someone on this board will have the answer to this. Traditional elevator shafts/stair wells are concrete. This shot is from Boston this past weekend of a steel construction building with steel being erected around the shafts.
Our Smoky Hollow commercial tower doesn’t have any concrete. I don’t recall how One Glenwood accounted for the elevator shafts/stairwells.
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Elevator/stair shafts are generally concrete or concrete masonry units if they are serving double duty as shear walls (providing lateral stability for the building). If the buildings lateral stability is provided by steel diagonal braces instead of shear walls, then the shafts are framed with metal studs and gyp board (actually a special fire rated version of this system called shaftwall) which is cheaper. Whether one building uses shear walls and another one may use braces depends on site issues, wind/seismic criteria, and mostly architectural preferences and material cost fluctuations.
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