Does anyone have a guess as to what the giant hole in the Spring is? They have the site excavated, and then in the middle of the site, there is a rectangular hole that seems to be 20' or so beneath the site floor.
On the underground issue, yes one would not need to dig very deep to hit solid rock, but hitting the water table may be a different story. The Austonian's site may not be affected by this, but I've heard that all of the high-rises on C. Chavez that have deep U/G parking have had ground water issues. City Hall for example has a 40-50' deep underground garage where the deepest floor always floods out when it rains heavily. When they built the garage structure here and the same with Altavida, they hit groundwater and had to find new ways to waterproof it which aren't always fool-proof. I wouldn't be surprised if the lowest garage floor at Altavida has flooding issues also because of the proximity to the lake. My point in this is that building that deep that close to a major river probably isn't that great of an idea, and that may have been the reasoning why Austonian's developers choose not to go with a deep garage.
Last edited by jgouger; Nov 5, 2007 at 3:15 PM.
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