SAN FRANCISCO | 301 Mission Street | 645 FT / 197 M | 60 FLOORS - Page 43

Downtown Dave · #**841** Posted **Mar 10, 2008, 9:35 PM**

Deux frères.

Downtown Dave · #**842** Posted **Mar 12, 2008, 9:07 PM**

Progress on the crown:

Glass being installed on the mid rise upper floors -- which is much closer in color to the tower:

Continuing work on the lower floors:

This fellow was banging out ragtime music as the glass was being installed, making for an amusing effect:

The midrise will be topping off soon:

peanut gallery · #**843** Posted **Mar 12, 2008, 10:02 PM**

The midrise has a real presence along Mission. Before it rose out of the hole, I tended to think of it as almost a throwaway in relation to the massive tower. But the midrise really adds to the streetscape and definitely holds its own at that intersection.

CityKid · #**844** Posted **Mar 14, 2008, 2:50 AM**

More courtesy of my boyfriend. These were taken on 3/12.

NYC2ATX · #**845** Posted **Mar 14, 2008, 11:18 AM**

Props to your BF citykid.

The glass on the lobby of the midrise is delicious. That's only word that describes it properly.

Downtown Dave · #**846** Posted **Mar 17, 2008, 12:04 AM**

Quite a contrast between glass on the different levels:

I hope that something will be done to finish this side of the facade:

My new favorite building and my favorite hot dog stand, all in one!

Dallas · #**847** Posted **Mar 17, 2008, 4:20 AM**

Is that construction worker really wearing a Raiders hard hat?!?! Sweet!!!

BTinSF · #**848** Posted **Mar 17, 2008, 6:22 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Downtown Dave

My new favorite building and my favorite hot dog stand, all in one!

Get a "New York Style Dog". That Sabrett's red onion sauce is just killer. I ate 2 of them before bed every night I was in NY in January but they have them at What's Up Dog.

However, should you be partial to Chicago style, here's a secret--they do those better at Oh! La! La! on Market St (across from the Ritx Carlton Residences).

Downtown Dave · #**849** Posted **Mar 17, 2008, 9:17 PM**

The mid rise will certainly make quite an impact when its done:

Meanwhile, I just had to have a hot dog on doctor's orders...

Note that What's up Dog is entirely enveloped in shadow:

Time to create a citizen's advocacy group -- San Francisco Society of Friends for Shadow Free Hot Dogs (SFSFSFHD). How dare greedy developers block the sunlight from reaching our hot dog stands?

Reminiscence · #**850** Posted **Mar 17, 2008, 9:39 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Downtown Dave

Time to create a citizen's advocacy group -- San Francisco Society of Friends for Shadow Free Hot Dogs (SFSFSFHD). How dare greedy developers block the sunlight from reaching our hot dog stands?

Its funny how many times "SF" appears in that acronym. Is that just a coincidence?

I thought the transition to dark glass would be more gradual, but its coming along great. That intersection is going to look insane in a few years.

SFView · #**851** Posted **Mar 18, 2008, 5:27 PM**

What's up dog? Just look up around you.

Anyway, here an update from Webcor.
From: http://www.webcor.com/current.html?proj_id=214

Quote:

MARCH 2008

TOWER
The “Roof Mounted” crane is in place on level 59 and the “Tower” crane is gone. We’ll make full use of the Roof Crane until May and at that juncture a derrick crane will be assembled for the final step of this logistics procedure.

The tower’s dress blues (the window wall) will have crept up to level 48 by the end of March. The building is expected to be fully glazed by the end of the May to early June.

Webcor Concrete Group will have completed the moment frames and columns on the roof by the time this update is posted, which will have cleared the way for the steel erector. The roof mount’s location has the erector working in two phases. The first phase will start with the erection of 200 pieces of steel going counter clockwise and this work will start at the end of the month. The second phase will be completed after the roof mount has been removed. The building systems that attach to the frame will also follow the same phased pattern. The entire roof will be complete around May-June.

The labor intensive interior work is marching up the building transforming a gray and sparse concrete space into elegant condominiums. As simple as sentence might describe it; there’s high amount of time and coordination required to successfully complete the interior finishes in a project of this magnitude. As of this writing, just in the tower structure itself, the project is currently involving more than 20 Subcontractors and roughly 250 craft workers currently spanning the height of the building. The first milestone for this scope will be the “punch list” of the first finished floors.

MID-RISE
Webcor Concrete has been moving along like a steam locomotive by running a six day floor cycle! Late April will see the topping out of the building at level 14.

The structural steel work will kick off with three big beams in the atrium area and later on a series freshly painted cantilevered beams will be hung over the remaining area of the atrium. The shaking out and erection of the pool skylight steel will have been well underway by the time this update has been posted. The final steel activity will be on level 12 which will start at the end of April to early May.

The storefront framing and glazing is moving along the first and second levels. Glazing of the building above the podium has started and will finish up May-June.

peanut gallery · #**852** Posted **Mar 20, 2008, 6:23 AM**

Progress on the midrise:

And they seem to be building something behind it:

Jobohimself · #**853** Posted **Mar 20, 2008, 7:22 AM**

I love how Millennium is coming along.

Somehow, it doesn't look 645 feet tall to me...maybe it's because it is not completely glazed yet. Either way, it's a fabulous building.