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Not too much. They're still doing studies to see if a high school is feasible.
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So I just got back from the inauguration and took a walk down to the Hilton Bayside to check out the construction of the pedestrian bridge, restoration of the old style street cars at MTS (I can't wait 'til these hit the rails) and then took a walk along the bayside and noticed that there is a new ferry service from the newly named 5th Ave Landing to Coronado Ferry Landing and water taxis to wherever you want to go around the bay.
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I will post pics of the bridge soon. So far I see rebar columns can be seen rising out of the ground at least twenty feet in the air (on both sides of Harbor Drive).
I saw the old style street cars in the MTS headquarters last night, couldn't tell if any progression has come to pass since the last time I saw them, although the positions of the trolleys have been rearranged since last time. Now the green ones are closest to the garage doors, last time the orange ones were closest to the garage doors. |
Thanks for taking the pics, this thread needed a boost thats for sure.
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Seems like there's a lot of activity in the Market Street/Island Avenue Area. I think the law school will be a shot in the arm for East Village.
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Nice to see some activity
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Someone told me they were talking with a contractor working on Strata this weekend, and there are new plans to top off at 12 floors, rather than 23. Has anyone heard this and can confirm or deny it?
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Strata @ 12 floors? That sucks! Hope it doesn't happen.
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There will be hell to pay if that happens.
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Well, the crane is still high enough in the air to accommodate a height clearance for a 23 floor building, but I doubt that IF the building was scaled back they would take the time and money to adjust the height of the crane, unless this is required by law or OSHA or something. Any thoughts?
I walk past it everyday on my way to school; tomorrow I will see if I can spot someone who looks like they know what's going on and ask them if this rumor is true. |
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Just an update on HSR. My husband came home last night and said all but 6 of the transportation division of engineers were laid off. Thankfully he was one of the 6. He said his hours are being cut though and since HSR isn't considered to be "shovel ready," they won't receive any of Obama's stimulus money. And he says that because the state is cutting payments to vendors (i.e., one of the reasons for layoffs at his firm), the HSR will most likely be delayed a few years.
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I just returned home from pulling an all-nighter at school and on the walk back I stopped off at the Stratta construction site to ask if the rumors of the project being scaled back to 12 floors instead of 23 floors were true. The first dude I talked to looked as if he was a lower-todum-pole guy and he said he didn't know how tall it was going, but he hadn't heard of any news of the project being scaled down at all. I wasn't satisfied, so I walked down to a small group of hard hat wearing men to ask further. I asked this tall white guy with a 'stache (he looked like one with some varying degree of authority and knowledge of the site) and he said that the project hasn't been scaled back, and in fact the total height will be 23 floors as originally designed.
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