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Originally Posted by Changing City
The 28 storey social housing / firehall / childcare tower at 75 Nelson (990 Beatty) is now being excavated. The piling rigs were working there until last week, so excavation started quickly.
Across the street there's still no signs of excavation for the 1050 Expo 29-storey social housing tower; (The gearwheel site). That had the perimeter piled months ago, but then filled the site in to grade. There seems to be some sort of site testing happening, so maybe there are contamination issues that they're trying to resolve without having to truck the soil to a remediation site (which would be more expensive). (Reminder; SFU Vancouver started this thread in 2010, and 1050 Expo was one of the sites that was in the list of 14 to be developed by the City / Province. All the other have been completed for years.) |
1050 Expo seems to be waiting for the utility work for the COV pumphouse to be completed. They started the utility work in December and installed the large above ground bypass pipe in mid-February.
Also I don't think the perimeter piling is complete? From the timelapses they only did a partial section near the pumphouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsmJVzu2qWA&list=PL0le3KJStsWtlJYpPDI9GrgLEmHTfgaka&index=4
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