Short update on downtown (from the IJ):
Downtown Ithaca construction clamors along
Two loud projects on Seneca Street
9:26 PM, Aug. 16, 2012
Written by
Andrew Casler
ITHACA — Whether it’s deafening metal-on-metal clanks from pile driving or the grumble of jackhammers ripping through concrete in a parking garage, construction noise is reverberating off buildings on Seneca Street.
At the work site for Breckenridge Place Apartments, a pile driver has been pounding-in the building’s metal foundation.
“It is an impact, and there is noise from the pile driving. Unfortunately, if anybody wants to build anything of any size in downtown, it’s an absolutely necessary way to build things, because of our soil you have to do it on a pile foundation,” City Planner Lisa Nicholas said.
When work is done, the $14.5 million building will house 50 apartment units for low-income people. There are 14 parking spaces on the building’s west side.
Seneca Street garage
At an estimated cost of $637,140, workers are repairing the Seneca Street garage. They’re now using jackhammers to rip through the concrete deck that’s being replaced.
“If you stand in the garage it’s deafening,” City of Ithaca Assistant Engineer Tom West said.
From outside the garage, West said, “You can hear it (the jackhammering), but you can still carry on a conversation. It’s not any louder than say a motor vehicle going by, a truck or something like that. It’s inside that it’s truly deafening.”
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http://www.theithacajournal.com/arti...xt|FRONTPAGE|p