Going Up: Your City's Best Projects

[hauntedheadnc]

So, just out of curiosity here, what are the projects currently going up in your city that you're most excited about?

Here, there are quite a few, but the ones I'm most excited to see are the redevelopment of County Square, an old shopping mall downtown that Greenville County bought to use as office space, which will be transformed into...


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...along with dense mixed-use development that will expand the footprint of downtown. Current status: Under construction since January, with various county departments and state offices having vacated for temporary quarters elsewhere across the city.

Then there's the new convention center and hotel, plus a world-class art museum where the art collection of Bob Jones University will be displayed. You may, and you should, scoff at the Bob Jones name, but not at their art collection, which includes 420 European paintings dating from the 1300s to the 1800s, over a thousand antiquities including an Egyptian jar dating to 3200BC, furniture, textiles, and a collection of 50-some Russian icons once owned by the Russian imperial family. This is a big deal. There used to be a museum on the Bob Jones campus to display some of this collection, but it's been closed for years, with the collection being loaned out for private display and for display in museums as varied as the Louvre and the National Museum of Western Art in Japan. Now, here comes the chance to bring it back and put it on display in the heart of downtown Greenville in this...


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Current status: Funding approved. The city, county, and state are all chipping in, with the state set to approve a budget that includes funding for this project on Monday. Other fundraising is underway.

Then there's this, Unity Park, a new 120 acre park just west of downtown. Designed for green space, flood control, and to revitalize the residential areas west of downtown. It includes enhancements to the Swamp Rabbit Trail, the area's longest greenway, bridges over the river, and an observation tower.


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Current status: Under construction. One of the new pedestrian bridges was installed this week.

[Metro-One]

For Vancouver it is definitely these two projects:

First is the Butterfly:






And second is 1550 Alberni:





Both are U/C.

[badrunner]

This... thing.



Construction progress:
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[mrnyc]

for right downtown in cleveland its the sherwin williams towers and campus and a new justice center, renders tba. don't hold your breath.

for currently u/c it's the handsome market square intro project, the tallest mass timber project in america of the moment (it seems wood towers and such are a thing these days).


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there is also this nice grouping going up in university circle called circle square that is u/c

[pj3000]

Pittsburgh

I-579 highway "cap" park connecting downtown with Lower Hill District redevelopment, featuring FNB headquarters tower

[dave8721]

For Miami it would probably be:
Aston Martin Residences (70 fl, 817 ft):


Progress photos from thenextmiami
https://www.thenextmiami.com/photos-...-martin-tower/

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Also 830 Brickell Plaza is the first major office tower to go up in a few years after a gazillion condo towers. A tall one too at 57 floors, 724 feet:

[dave8721]

For Miami for other projects there is the I-395 complete renovation/rebuild. The highway is a great dark wall separating Downton from the Midtown/Wynwood area. The highway is being rebuilt higher and thinner to allow more light to pass through and the old highway and the space under the new highway will be parkland. Burying it or turning it into a surface road would have been better but this is the Florida DOT we are dealing with:
Currently under construction, you can see the new spans starting to take shape in google maps: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mi...!4d-80.1917902


Also the "Underline Project" is activating the space underneath the Metrorail tracks starting in Brickell and going South from there. It will have parks, play grounds, running paths, meeting spaces...etc. The first phase in Brickell is under construction. It will continue down through Coral Gables eventually.

[Northern Light]

For Toronto, I think I'd have to put CIBC Square at the top of the list, this is 2 tower complex; Tower 1 of which now beginning occupancy, across from Toronto's Union Station and the Scotiabank Arena.

Below is phase 1, photo credit to Riseth over at Urban Toronto



This render is from the Urban Toronto database:



The development includes a park-like (privately owned, publicly accessible space) over the rail corridor; the new inter-city bus terminal is underneath.

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For something much smaller, there is a condo finishing up in the West Don Lands area of the City that's also very modern, with sleek black finish.

Credit to Urban Toronto poster Skycandy for this one:




One more......'The Well' this is a mixed use with an office tower and multiple residential towers. The towers themselves aren't my favourites, but what's proposed with the podiums and the public space, both for shopping and parks looks really intriguing.

From Urban Toronto's database:



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