[deja vu]

Sights around town from the past few days, in 3 posts...Kalamazoo is rising!

180 E Water Street / Catalyst Development

Things are starting to go vertical. The first forms and cages for what will become the structural columns of the first floor started going up on Tuesday.










As they compact the earth (preparing for what will be the first floor slab) they are covering it up with large tarps, ostensibly, to protect it from any possible snow cover.




I think what is seen here is the elevator / circulation core, or at least, one of the cores (there might be 2 - one for the residential side, and one for the commercial side?)






I am starting to understand the impact that this building will have, when perceived driving east on Water Street. It will recreate a new street wall that has not existed along this block for ~6 decades.


A bit closer...