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Old Posted Mar 4, 2015, 5:17 PM
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The New Academic Building is under construction now (Sciame is handling the CM responsibilities). The site was excavated last year and in 2013, the foundation walls and footings have been poured and anchored, and the steel has already been built up for the southern portion of the building (and in process of being built for the northern Tillary Street side portion of the building).

The building will look like this:


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Notice that the Tillary Street side is cantilevered above the the round-roofed auditorium structure? This was supposed to be the site for City Tech Tower. Even though the air rights technically remain, I don't see any feasible way to build a tower on top of this structure without everything looking rather ungainly and awkward. So I think this should put to rest any hopes of the City Tech Tower proposal being revived in the future.

If you want, I can start a thread about the New Academic Building instead. Does anybody want that?
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