one new thing I noticed in my brief (brief since I am recovering from a cold) walkabout this weekend was that there was some heavy equipment apparently working on the area around future block 18 where some months back they had dug up the pavement and installed
wicks to help consolidate the soil in prep for later construction. so maybe the wicks have done their job. this is looking SE down the remnant of what used to be Sixth St:
but the main development I noticed is that many of the new streets are getting their streetlights - tall version for Long Bridge St, short version for all others. here is China Basin St as an example, where they were still doing open dirt surgery on the sidewalk, maybe to implant the electric stuff:
a few shots looking NE along Long Bridge St, first from its far western end, with block 11 on the right and the piles of block 12E on the left (and new streetlights in the distance):
moving forward, now at the corner of Long Bridge and China Basin, with P6 (children's park) on the right and P5 (dog run) on the left:
and moving ever forward, a closer-up view of the epicenter of construction near the intersection with Fourth:
I mentioned last week that pile-driving was done on block 13W. this is what that parcel looks like now, looking NE, with rebar going in on the western half (foreground), and shallow excavation starting on the eastern portion (not very visible in the background), with block 13E rising behind:
a couple shots of Fourth itself, looking north, first from in front of block 3, showing mainly block 13E:
and from further back, in front of Strata. with the second floor of block 5 becoming visible, a long stretch of Fourth is now feeling 'framed'.
now jumping around a bit, here is the public safety building as glimpsed from Fourth and Mission Rock streets (Strata on right):
the brick skin of the eastern portion of block 2 is now starting to show on its south side:
the UCSF block 25 building seems to be rising quickly:
here is the Third St side of 2121 Third:
here is what Channel St looks like these days, looking NE. so far I am liking the massing of 13E, seems to be lots of variation over the whole form (some of that may just be that they are not done with certain parts). just hope the skin ends up looking good:
and here as it appears from across the Creek:
edit: whoa,
curbedSF was seven minutes behind me