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Old Posted Mar 25, 2024, 6:08 PM
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I believe their argument is that the current garage is in disrepair which is a safety concern.
I got the pretext noted in the article. I am unconvinced the proposed parking ratio is to address the safety concerns, or an appropriate or necessary response more generally. And the proposed drive thru provision betrays as much.
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Old Posted Mar 26, 2024, 2:40 PM
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Large photo update on BSL.com this morning

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Now I understand why there aren't more regular updates of Astra. It's as bad as I had feared, and in some ways worse. At least they didn't use a gross color of glass like their Boston building.

On this side there are 8 floors of blank wall at the bottom. What's going on with that? Is a blank wall the finished product?
https://buildingsaltlake.com/wp-cont...0-1200x900.jpg

This is just silly.
https://buildingsaltlake.com/wp-cont...8-1200x900.jpg

Not an awful angle, but there's still too much blank wall all over the place. The splotches of darker grey don't make it better.
https://buildingsaltlake.com/wp-cont...2-1200x900.jpg


For reference, Cambridge MA has a 454' residential coming up that looks like this:
https://www.skyscrapercity.com/attac...1-png.2756267/

https://assets.courbanize.com/kendal...be426fffe0.png

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c...121_sm_c04.jpg

To me, the Cambridge design is well worthy of being a city's tallest building. When is Astra going to be eclipsed by something that is worthy for Salt Lake City?

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Old Posted Mar 26, 2024, 8:47 PM
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North side of Astra doesn't bother me. The west will get a mural soon and then eventually be covered up by another tower. It looks good from the east and south.

There were rumors of another tall building in the works at the recent SLC Construction and Development conference.
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Old Posted Mar 26, 2024, 8:59 PM
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3rd South Demolition

I was walking down 3rd South this morning and noticed a sign on the little strip mall that contains the Green Ant that the building is going to be demolished.

There were also moving signs on some of the remaining businesses so I as assuming that the entire building is going to be demolished.

Does anyone know what is going to be built in its place?
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Old Posted Mar 26, 2024, 10:25 PM
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I was walking down 3rd South this morning and noticed a sign on the little strip mall that contains the Green Ant that the building is going to be demolished.

There were also moving signs on some of the remaining businesses so I as assuming that the entire building is going to be demolished.

Does anyone know what is going to be built in its place?
Interesting. I did some digging and found this. It is obviously outdated as it references a plan to develop what is now a liquor store. Still, it gives some insight as to what type of development might be considered at that location.
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Old Posted Mar 26, 2024, 10:39 PM
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Lol Within our lifetimes, can a single one of us here actually expect an even taller tower to be built right next door to cover this entire wall?

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Man, how disappointing...

I searched the interwebs for "boobs" and it brought me right to this page. However fitting, these were not the boobs I was looking for.
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Lol Within our lifetimes, can a single one of us here actually expect an even taller tower to be built right next door to cover this entire wall?

How depressing! Don't we have design guidelines that prevent something like this? I guess since they're just apartments, not sure many people care that much. If these were condo's, developer's would spend more on the exterior. I will say the south and east side are decent. I'll just avoid looking at it from the other angles. Does anyone know if they will light the top at night?

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Apparently these are called the Altitude Apartments?
Anyway, I took this picture today because there was a Stadler train parked in the background, to the left of the structure:
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Astra looks absolutely atrocious from the north. If that's the final look, it's actually one of the ugliest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.

I don't know how anybody can look at the renderings and defend how it's turned out.
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Does anyone know what is going to be built in its place?
I know the people involved here, and very recently was told there is nothing imminent happening, nor are there any firm plans, particularly since the previous concept relied upon utilizing parking at the state structure that was scrapped.
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I like my view from the southwest. I get that it's not a typical view, but I still think it's a good looking building.
Great shot Dakben, I enthusiastically agree! Except for the lower portion, which will be covered by an upcoming high-rise. Even if the neighboring tower were only 24 or so floors Astra would look great from that westside view. The northside view though has to do something about correcting that blank wall faux-paus. It looks like they were thinking that the very light-colored variation in the stone panels would do the trick. Unfortunately, the color variations are not nearly dramatic enough, and even if they were noticeably varied in color a mural would probably be a better outcome. Even just painting multi-dimensional effect windows over the darker shade of staggered panels on that north side would be a major improvement.

Just a thought and it probably won't happen any time soon if ever, but I wish they'd build a neighboring high-rise on the north side. Demolish the old smoke shop and even the remodeled Zims, and the mediocre low-rise add-on to the south of the old Promised Valley Playhouse. Zim's historic aesthetic value was completely ruined. The inside contemporary remodel on Zim's is cool but not of any importance historically, and the front facade was completely ruined when compared to the beauty of the turn of the century original. Also, would like to see one of my least favorite structures downtown (The ugly low-rise Federal Reserve) demoed and replaced with a sexy 500-600 foot high-rise. Build a new attractive mid-rise Federal Reserve/Multi-Use government office building over in the new Federal Courthouse vicinity around the W. Temple area.




The original articulation of the 1890's facades next to Promised Valley were stunning.

https://buildingsaltlake.com/wp-cont...7436675833.jpg

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Yes Delts, I've been saying on here for years that a new 600ft plus tower needs to be built on the Federal Reserve site. If so it would be perfectly placed in the skyline to make an incredible view from the famed northwest angle.
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I’d take it a step further, Delts and taboubak.. not only should the Federal Reserve building go, this entire highlighted area needs revamping.



The orange area is my personal least favorite part of downtown. There’s approximately 0% vibrancy due to no street engagement, every structure is wide, under 100’ tall, and soulless. When I was a teen this is where my friends and I would smoke pot on the street because it was so dead.

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A mural would go along way toward at least making the building look passable from the north.

It really whiffed from what it looked like in the rendering, tho. The white is off and the glass doesn't look nearly as good.

One building that I think has hit it out of the park and is very comparable to the rendering is the Worthington. Wish we could flip those two in size tbh
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