Tonight
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did one of the developers flee the country or something?
IMG_20190203_161759 by Harry Feldman, on Flickr
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They did take down the tower crane recently so the project hasn’t been completely abandoned.
But something definitely went very, very wrong here…
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Eh. Tower cranes are rented, right? Leaving one idle on site costs serious money. It could just as easily have been taken down because the project was abandoned.
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In a Yimby article from a couple months ago they said it wasn’t needed anymore, IIRC, so I was hoping it represented that the project was still on.
But your suggestion makes as much if not more sense so I guess only time will tell…
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One Seaport is most definitely still on, work continuing apace. Glass curtain wall is being hung. Not a chance in hell this would be abandoned. Most of the units have already been sold.
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I’ve seen the hoists moving too, but doesn’t that glass look the same as photos from the fall?
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Yeah. I think you are right now that I look more closely.
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Same. I see zero new glass since Oct. That’s not good.
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A mediocre project this one. A badly value-engineered ‘Aqua’-derivative design with overflowing helpings of delays and mismanagement.
Not to mention I hate when two projects go up on adjacent sites at the same time with no apparent design collaboration.
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The blank concrete shear wall is unholy. The hotel next door came out nice and has been open a while. If Fortis wasn’t in a financial position to build this they should have sold the site to the hotel. Its a year behind schedule.
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the blank wall is there to account for 80 South Street. It will disappear… eventually. I bet they’re up shits creek in legal trouble after the worker fell to his death (rip) and the DOB went in and found a myriad of issues.
The New York City Department of Buildings issued a stop work order on Sept. 21 when 36-year-old construction worker Juan Chonillo fell to his death. After the accident, the DOB found “numerous immediately hazardous conditions” at the site
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Why is construction not progressing?
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I am late to the party, so missed out on the fun. I had no knowledge of this UC building, interesting project, for sure: nor did I know about the obvious construction complications at play. I need to check-in with YIMBY more often…
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It’s a race to the finish! Which will be completed first: One Seaport or One Beekman?
Or will the Apocalypse come before either are done?
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