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Looks like a pipe.
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I'm not overly impressed with the spire here. It's an antenna on a box....kinda like a handheld radio back in the day.
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I'm not overly impressed with the spire here. It's an antenna on a box....kinda like a handheld radio back in the day.
Just wait until the little red light is installed on top.
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Just wait until the little red light is installed on top.
or smoke, looks like a smoke stack
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or smoke, looks like a smoke stack
Okay, you guys convinced me. This thing is gonna rock!
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Considering how thick it is, it would be a crime not to install multicolored LED lighting on it.

By the way, kinda funny how it just popped up all of a sudden after us asking about it.

Did anyone see how it was installed? I could be wrong but it doesn't look they used the crane. It doesn't even look like the crane is being used anymore.
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I'm not overly impressed with the spire here. It's an antenna on a box....kinda like a handheld radio back in the day.
At the very least, it looks to be pretty damn tall though... It seems like it's only halfway up at most.
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I hope it has cool led lights at night and not just a red flashing light.
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I saw it today. I'd say it's about 70 feet tall so far since it's slightly shorter than the four crane pieces poking above the roof, and I've read before that those are 20 feet tall each. It seems to be 10 to 15 feet shorter than those.

By the way, I noticed that the contact I had for the heights told me wrong. They said the spire would stand on the main roof, which it won't. It's standing on the roof slab of the mechanical roof. So the spire starts at 451 feet above the street. With the height being 595 feet, that would have to mean the spire is 144 feet tall. So a little less than half of the spire is up there now.

I was also looking through the posts, and the FAA permits for the cranes said they were 580 and 590 feet. So the spire will be slightly higher than the tallest crane, whichever one it is that's still up there.
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I noticed they were moving the crane again today. I'm thinking of going back downtown again in a bit for some more photos since you can't beat this weather.
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HOLY CRAP!!! Great views!

Wish the Aloft/Element developers were smart enough to complete the "blank" side of their building with the modern gray siding instead of that crap concrete/stucco stuff.

Cannot wait to see Rainey from that view in the second pic a few years from now.
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Nice drive bys. Having time to take photos is the only good thing about our jammed highways.
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Here's one I found on Twitter. It looks like it was taken by the crane operator at the Homewood Suites project.


https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net...c1&oe=5979846C
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Here's one I found on Twitter. It looks like it was taken by the crane operator at the Homewood Suites project.


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Neat pic, though now I can definitively say I dislike the Fairmont. Just a wall of glass. No finesse, nothing interesting about it. Blah.
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Neat pic, though now I can definitively say I dislike the Fairmont. Just a wall of glass. No finesse, nothing interesting about it. Blah.
Except for that wall of concrete facing Cesar Chavez. It's horrible! I don't see why they couldn't have windows on that side. What is the reason for leaving that side blank?
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Nice drive bys. Having time to take photos is the only good thing about our jammed highways.
I definitely agree!
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What it lacks in flair, it also lacks in height. But it looks good from I35 and I like the reflective glass.
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