The Lovejoy (Pearl Safeway) | Complete - Page 3

bvpcvm · #41 Posted **Sep 27, 2007, 4:09 AM**

remember how they built the fox tower? first they built the elevator shafts and when they were halfway up or so they started building the floors around them. there was an article in the O at the time which said it was the first time in oregon that this construction method had been used, though it's apparently common elsewhere. i don't know if there's any difference given that with the fox tower there was one shaft and here there are several.

Dougall5505 · #42 Posted **Oct 16, 2007, 2:37 AM**

good thing theres a porty potty up there http://flickr.com/photos/reidab/

Snowden352 · #43 Posted **Oct 16, 2007, 2:55 PM**

Okay... I'll admit it... I think that's funny.

MarkDaMan · #44 Posted **Nov 21, 2007, 9:38 PM**

I haven't been to the Pearl for about a month. Has nothing progressed on the Safeway building?

vaderryderwood · #45 Posted **Nov 21, 2007, 9:53 PM**

Yes - the cast-in-place concrete has begun on the building's structure. Should go fast.

dkealoha · #46 Posted **Nov 22, 2007, 2:04 AM**

I live 1 block from the safeway site and it doesn't appear to me that much has been happening. The concrete elevator shafts look like they are the same height as they were weeks ago and I don't see much else. Granted, I'm not here during the day to see what workers are doing (if anything) so maybe something is happening that I'm not noticing. I was going to post something though because I hadn't seen much progress.

The Lovejoy apartments, on the other hand, seem to have had workers on them daily doing something. Even during the high winds last week.

bvpcvm · #47 Posted **Nov 22, 2007, 3:23 AM**

i was out of town for a month and when i came back, it was quite obvious that a lot of work had been done on the safeway.

philopdx · #48 Posted **Feb 11, 2008, 2:15 AM**

With the LoveJoy in the background:

Okstate · #49 Posted **Feb 16, 2008, 7:16 PM**

When is this expected to be complete. i scrolled the thread & didn't see it.

bvpcvm · #50 Posted **Feb 16, 2008, 11:43 PM**

fall 2008, according to the signs out front

pdxman · #51 Posted **Feb 19, 2008, 3:30 AM**

I am very much looking forward to this opening. I work in that area of the pearl and it will be nice to have a supermarket so close for cheap lunches and grocery shopping.

philopdx · #52 Posted **Feb 24, 2008, 4:44 AM**

cab · #53 Posted **Feb 24, 2008, 5:29 AM**

Hey look its a parking garage. What an absolute beast of a building. I still can't believe both these buildings got through design review.

bvpcvm · #54 Posted **Feb 24, 2008, 7:06 AM**

are they using some sort of prefab technique with this building? i don't recall seeing any forms, and it looks like the parts that are built sort of plug in to each other or something.

Castillonis · #55 Posted **Feb 24, 2008, 7:17 AM**

The corner columns had concrete poured on site. The center of the structure is precast concrete that was poured and cured off site and then delivered. The precase columns and slabs are smaller rectangles when compared to the corner columns. You might look at an earlier photo in this thread to see what I am talking about. A foreman from the machine works building explained much of this to me as well as my step father who is a project manager in another city.