Spokane/ CDA development discussions - Page 15

Hub for an Empire · #**281** Posted **Aug 29, 2006, 1:49 PM**

^^^^ I agree with you on that one! It would be nice to have an all-glass high rise also!

revrw · #**282** Posted **Aug 29, 2006, 6:42 PM**

I was looking at the block just west of the proposed residential tower between Wall and Howard just south of the Wells Fargo tower. If you look at the lot just west of that proposed development, it is also a vacant parking lot and it is the same size of the lot that is going to be developed. If this tower turns out to be a success it would be nice to see someone develop that parking lot into a residential tower. That would really spark development south of the railroad tracks in downtown.

Trebor of Spokane · #**283** Posted **Sep 1, 2006, 6:52 PM**

This thursday's Spokane Journal of Buisness article on highrises in downtown Spokane mention that the Davenport tower's penthouse will be on floor 18.

ghost22 · #**284** Posted **Sep 2, 2006, 5:15 AM**

does anyone know why there are different colored "lego blocks" in the davenport. i hope these will be painted. i plan to stay in the new tower sometime after opening.

James Bond Agent 007 · #**285** Posted **Sep 2, 2006, 5:18 AM**

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Originally Posted by Hub for an Empire

I was downtown yesterday. I noticed they didn't have a 13th floor.

It's fairly common practice for hotels to "skip" the 13th floor.

Bad luck, I s'pose.

ghost22 · #**286** Posted **Sep 2, 2006, 5:49 AM**

anyone have a copy of the spokane business journal from a week or two ago talking about the crane shortage. if u do could u post it. it was talking about buildings i didnt even know about in cda. one was either 5, 7 story or 7, 5 story buildings along the river. also anyone have any pics of hagadon's condos at the edge of the golf course?

InlandEmpire · #**287** Posted **Sep 2, 2006, 2:13 PM**

^
Here are a couple cranes for the Terraces, but this pic is a couple months old:

Parkside courtesy Miller-Stauffer's website; this is a little old as footings have been poured

And the condos at Post Falls landing are coming along, with 2 condo buildings done and sold out, a third identical one taking reservations, and another 7 floor condo building starting behind these ones

Trebor of Spokane · #**288** Posted **Sep 9, 2006, 8:43 PM**

Good weekend to everyone,

I did this Panoramic of Downtown Spokane last weekend. It is from up on Cliff Drive looking down on downtown and stretches all the way from Sacred Heart Medical Center to Deaconess Medical Center. This picture is Huge. It is comprised of 60 seperate photos stitched together to make the one. Pixel wise I saved and cropped it out at 13943 x 1479 pixels. I think if it was printed out at 100% it would meassure around 24 inches tall by 190 inches long.

After I had this picture together it was kind of fun to just sit back and explore. It's not perfect, it took about 10 minutes on a partly cloudy day to do all the seperate photos so you might notice some areas that are more sunny than others, but i did my best to eidt thise areas.

Enjoy.

Trebor of Spokane

http://app.tabblo.com/studio/items/d...83944/original

InlandEmpire · #**289** Posted **Sep 10, 2006, 7:08 PM**

^
wow! That's a great pano! Good work

ghost22 · #**290** Posted **Sep 11, 2006, 2:46 AM**

ya that is a great pano, without u telling of the light differences i probably would not have noticed. and thanks for the images above too empire.
lol by the way u werent driving while taking the picture of hagadon's project i hope. i can see ur sideveiw mirror in there.

by the way did anyone read the spokesman article today about I-90's 50th b-day. kind of a cool article. happy b-day I-90

ghost22 · #**291** Posted **Sep 12, 2006, 3:47 AM**

[QUOTE=Trebor of Spokane]In this picture you will notice that on either side of the elevator are wood doors with numbers on them. on the 2nd floor above ground there is the number 4 and on the 3rd floor above ground ther is the number 5. Today they finishes number 8 or the sixth floor above ground. So, though the Davenport web site says 21 floors, only 19 of them will be above ground. Floors above level 2 seem to be only about 9 foot high. My best guess is this building only comes in at 200 ft, maybe 210. The Metroplitan Finacial Center is listed on Emporis at 243 feet and the Bank of America building at 288 ft. This building will be no were close to being Spokanes tallest, not even the 3rd tallest (paulsen 221 and us bank 217)

^ posted on pg 9.

today driving on the freeway i noticed that the building looked to be the third tallest. i dont think it is going to get much higher than today but it is defenitely taller than paulsen now.

Trebor of Spokane · #**292** Posted **Sep 12, 2006, 6:27 AM**

Ghost you may be right, I was driving east on Boone street and noticed that they are working today on installing the penthouse floor (floor 19 above ground). There were windows on the west side and it was obviously a much taller floor than the previous floors. This last floor just peaked above the Washington Mutual Building on its north. It looked like about 12-15 feet taller, to bad emporis does not give measurments for the WM building.

Anyways it is a much more dominating building than I expected from initail assesments. I was looking at some of my pictures and was thinking though, that this building could keep the same type of facade, but if Worthy would have not made the building so wide from east to west, and then added that square footage as more floors (made it a taller thinner building) this building could of looked really kind of interestong and could have been easlily the tallest in spokane. If they would of stepped it back about 30 feet from post street then alot of the WM building would have still been visible form the freeway and southhill. Then they could have put a nice plaza between the building and post street.

Dang! I shoud be an architect.

chepe · #**293** Posted **Sep 12, 2006, 6:12 PM**

Good thoughts Trebor, too bad Worthy didn't consult you. It did turn out to be a very massive building in terms of presence. A small point of clarification, the building just north is the Washington Trust building, not the Wamu building. Nonetheless, the top floor looks to be about double the size of the floors below. Still not as tall as the Wells Fargo but not too far off. It does look like the third tallest in town at this point.

urbanlife · #**294** Posted **Sep 12, 2006, 7:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by Trebor of Spokane

Ghost you may be right, I was driving east on Boone street and noticed that they are working today on installing the penthouse floor (floor 19 above ground). There were windows on the west side and it was obviously a much taller floor than the previous floors. This last floor just peaked above the Washington Mutual Building on its north. It looked like about 12-15 feet taller, to bad emporis does not give measurments for the WM building.

Anyways it is a much more dominating building than I expected from initail assesments. I was looking at some of my pictures and was thinking though, that this building could keep the same type of facade, but if Worthy would have not made the building so wide from east to west, and then added that square footage as more floors (made it a taller thinner building) this building could of looked really kind of interestong and could have been easlily the tallest in spokane. If they would of stepped it back about 30 feet from post street then alot of the WM building would have still been visible form the freeway and southhill. Then they could have put a nice plaza between the building and post street.

Dang! I shoud be an architect.

I got tired of complaining about bad architecture and decided to become a good one. I still have several years to go, but I am on that journey right now.

So...........what's up with the Rookery? I am guessing it is still standing.

RemiO · #**295** Posted **Sep 12, 2006, 7:46 PM**

They're removing the asbestos from it now, before they (I assume) tear it down.

urbanlife · #**296** Posted **Sep 13, 2006, 12:13 AM**

thanks for the info RemiO, it should make a really nice parking lot for the Reugh family. I wonder what there asking price for the block will be when the buildings are gone......that is going to be a funny estimate.

Hub for an Empire · #**297** Posted **Sep 13, 2006, 2:18 AM**

I noticed when I was driving south on Monroe Street last Sunday that the Davenport Tower was the same height as the Washington Trust Bank. It is more noticable driving from the freeway. From other vantage spots, it reminds me of a slightly shorter Wells Fargo Building (With funny windows). Kind of blends in. From the Sunset hill it definitely blends in with the other highrises. Noticed on the first level they are putting curved metal in for the windows. Still think they should have angled the new hotel 45-degrees from the corner and provide a view of the vintage Davenport Hotel or even on the current design to have the windows angled to see the view down to the other hotel.

I would think the Rockery Block would be in a better position to be developed/redeveloped with new or updated construction all around the block? I don't think the owner or his off-spring has a clue on any direction for the block!

urbanlife · #**298** Posted **Sep 13, 2006, 4:13 AM**

The Rookery will be bought up and redeveloped fairly quick (well at least in Spokane's terms for quick). Problem the Reugh's are going to have is the asking price for the land. With buildings on it, he wanted 5mil, without buildings that land is worth about 1.2 mil. No developer in their right mind will pay more that 1.75 mil for that block. So basically they turned down a 4.8 mil offer so that they might be lucky to get 2mil out of it in the next 10 years or so.......Reugh is such an idiot.

chepe · #**299** Posted **Sep 13, 2006, 8:01 PM**

Upon further inspection it looks as if the small rectangular holes left in the Davenport Tower's exterior are for small windows rather than HVAC units. It looks like the windows are able to open and close for some measure of fresh air. An improvement, abeit small, over exposed exterior HVAC units.

hcnate · #**300** Posted **Sep 13, 2006, 8:46 PM**

Small ventilation windows at foot or knee level? I thought I saw a vent on one of them before? Maybe I am mistaken, and my floor heights are off.