A foundation pouring update from Lenawee Street! The new one I saw this week is for the front of the building and is kind of complex, i.e. not a straight line, it looks interesting. I have hope that this development will have a nice "downtown" feeling. I still get this, wow, where is the Y? and I can't believe this one is actually being built sensation when I pass by.
I saw the elevator structure is going up on the corner of Lenawee and Townsend. Looks taller than I remember from looking at the drawings. Great to see this building going up. The park looked really nice as well with the daffodils blooming around the base of the fountain. I am hopeful that seeing a BWL and a city truck near the fountain means they are going to get it running for this season.
I think they watch the posts here. Today there is also one of their 'Projects to Watch' articles. It is kind of interesting that they did not cover all the projects, that we have more than six big projects going up here is very impressive to me.
Well, it's not going to be pretty but it won't be trash either. It will still be good to see a sizable market-rate apartment building on that end of downtown.
Board and batten is a common name for a siding style with vertical boards. When they say "composite" I'm assuming they mean engineered wood/LP siding, though they could be talking about fiber cement. I'm really not sure how this is going to turn out.
Composite is often used interchangeably for fiber cement/hardie board/etc. It's more of a residential product, but for a multi family project of this size, it probably makes sense. It's a higher quality option than say, vinyl siding.
I was by it today, it's mostly at three floors, even that looks shorter than I would've expected. They do have part of the fourth floor up along Townsend though, even that looks somewhat short. They also have some of the parapet wall up and that seems like it will make the difference, it adds another half floor of height to the building at least. I'm still skeptical of this building in general but as you said, hundreds of new residents.
I noticed the exterior finish was starting to go up as they seemed to have topped out the framing, it fills the space very nicely. The drawings for the building depict a light color, but the stone-faced square bricks I saw them using for the first floor are a dark charcoal color which I think will look classy and different. The balconies look large enough to actually use, unlike many I have noticed on the newer buildings. We have huge balconies in our 1964 model building on S. Washington!
The outside finish work continues, they are finishing the first floor stone facade and are starting on the upper floors which are being clad in a wood-like siding that looks a little cheap compared with the stone siding used on the first floor. It's OK just not great! They have also finished the steam- pipework and have reopened Lenawee and S. Capitol Ave and planted many new trees on that side of Rutter park.
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Does this indicate that the development is going to be built in two phases? I noticed the "future use" area on the right.
A foundation pouring update from Lenawee Street! The new one I saw this week is for the front of the building and is kind of complex, i.e. not a straight line, it looks interesting. I have hope that this development will have a nice "downtown" feeling. I still get this, wow, where is the Y? and I can't believe this one is actually being built sensation when I pass by.
I saw the elevator structure is going up on the corner of Lenawee and Townsend. Looks taller than I remember from looking at the drawings. Great to see this building going up. The park looked really nice as well with the daffodils blooming around the base of the fountain. I am hopeful that seeing a BWL and a city truck near the fountain means they are going to get it running for this season.
I think they watch the posts here. Today there is also one of their 'Projects to Watch' articles. It is kind of interesting that they did not cover all the projects, that we have more than six big projects going up here is very impressive to me.
Board and batten is a common name for a siding style with vertical boards. When they say "composite" I'm assuming they mean engineered wood/LP siding, though they could be talking about fiber cement. I'm really not sure how this is going to turn out.
Thanks for posting. Those are some details! I am thinking this development will look pretty good.
Composite is often used interchangeably for fiber cement/hardie board/etc. It's more of a residential product, but for a multi family project of this size, it probably makes sense. It's a higher quality option than say, vinyl siding.