weekend update... random things...
blocks 2 and 3 along Fourth:
across the street, block 5:
(block 13E looks similar - imagine about a month's more progress)
they've been working on the sewer infrastructure for the future streets. if I have got this right, unlike in the rest of the City, in MB the sewers will separate wastewater from rainfall (that is, storm runoff), so all this new development will not add any extra burden to the municipal waste-treatment system
(edit: that is, on wet-weather days, which are the only times the system has trouble coping, and sometimes overflows). this is looking west down what will be Mission Bay Blvd North:
over at the public safety building, the steel now reaches north-south all the way across the pit. here looking from the south:
and this starts to let us imagine the future building spaces, such as this entry passageway from the south behind the old firehouse:
rendering:
source:
http://www.hok.com/uploads/2012/08/0...c-safety05.jpg
elsewhere, they haven't really started on the new UCSF medical office building - the piece of drilling equipment in a pic from a few weeks ago has just been sitting waiting as far as I can tell.
and they are still futzing around with site prep down at 2121 Third. looked like they were pumping concrete or cement into the ground for a while, and now they have dug a new hole in the middle of the nice level excavated floor they had made, and are crushing rocks into powder. I don't know enough about construction to know what is going on exactly:
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oh, and the MB Visitor Center... front steps disintegrated, approaching post-apocalyptic state:
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