Finally starting to look like the renderings (and good!). The insets are starting to show a lot more now that the glass is going in. And the impact on the skyline - like the struggle - is real!
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TK, can you put up one that covers river to river? The one above is close but on the right side, it's missing buildings near Delaware River on Front and Chestnut Street.
It took them about a year and a half just get above ground!
Yep, you may recall that a lot of the delay was due to them finding, as they excavated, many underground things that weren't supposed to be there:
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When the Morris building was demolished the contract called for the interior basement walls, basement floor, and sub floor, and maybe more to be demolished like the Western wall and nothing larger than 4" X 4" to be used as fill. We are just finding out that they didn't do what they were contracted to do.
The rest of the site West of the Morris building isn't much better which was also not expected. Steel plate, railroad tracks, vaults, I beams encased in concrete.
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Not sure about the sidewalk demolition but there is a steam pipe that has to be worked around running under the sidewalk that should have been in the street. There is unfortunately a ton of things in the ground that have to be demolished beyond anyone's wildest nightmares. We thought there were town-homes on the West side of the site and now are realizing that a larger building was there and have had to pull out three inch thick steel plate, numerous railroad tracks, etc. On the East side there wasn't supposed to be interior walls and basement floors and sub basement floors.
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There are protrusions that cross over the property line. Apparently there was a building that pre-dated both the Morris building and the Girard building and for some reason they left the South wall of that building standing between the South wall of the Morris building and the North wall of the Girard building. It's in the way so it's getting gone.
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It took them about a year and a half just get above ground!
Digging started around April 2015 and got above ground December 2016.
Just for comparison, The Alexander started drilling and blasting in January 2015. (granted a smaller building, not apples to apples)
Digging started around April 2015 and got above ground December 2016.
Just for comparison, The Alexander started drilling and blasting in January 2015. (granted a smaller building, not apples to apples)
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