PHILADELPHIA | W Hotel & Element by Westin | 617 FT | 51 FLOORS - Page 64

Yackemflaber69 · #**1261** Posted **Dec 4, 2015, 7:31 AM**

That's funny I didn't even notice it.

mmikeyphilly · #**1262** Posted **Dec 4, 2015, 5:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by boxbot

So[/url] you're saying it's going to reopen Sunday SUNDAY SUNDAY or not until they complete shadow and wind tunnel studies on paving this lot?

In hindsight, you know what this location really needs?

Please, let's not do this~~~

or this:

mmikeyphilly · #**1263** Posted **Dec 8, 2015, 5:55 PM**

Hopefully, this will be moved to the Construction threads. It's been too long. I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks that way. This will be a beautiful project, once completed.

Arch+Eng · #**1264** Posted **Dec 8, 2015, 7:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by mmikeyphilly

Hopefully, this will be moved to the Construction threads. It's been too long. I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks that way. This will be a beautiful project, once completed.

I am sure my great grandson will see this top out.

jsbrook · #**1265** Posted **Dec 8, 2015, 7:17 PM**

I walked by today. Not perfectly clear, but it seems to me that legitimate excavation has started. Finally.

1487 · #**1266** Posted **Dec 9, 2015, 1:24 PM**

when I went by the coring rig wasn't in use and was sitting at street level near the construction trailer. I couldn't tell what was actually going on down in the hole, but I didn't see any dump trucks or excavation going on.

boxbot · #**1267** Posted **Dec 10, 2015, 4:22 AM**

From Building Philly, we have caissons!!

summersm343 · #**1268** Posted **Dec 10, 2015, 5:11 AM**

Excavation update from Building Philly

More photos here:
https://www.facebook.com/BuildingPhilly

summersm343 · #**1269** Posted **Dec 10, 2015, 5:11 AM**

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Originally Posted by boxbot

From Building Philly, we have caissons!!

Caissons mean under construction

thisisforreal · #**1270** Posted **Dec 10, 2015, 2:00 PM**

Plokoon11 · #**1271** Posted **Dec 10, 2015, 2:24 PM**

Yey lego building getting serious!

Knight Hospitaller · #**1272** Posted **Dec 10, 2015, 3:51 PM**

Mr. Lenfest gets years off of Purgatory for this.

1487 · #**1273** Posted **Dec 10, 2015, 4:15 PM**

regardless of semantics, its been under construction for quite some time now.

mmikeyphilly · #**1274** Posted **Dec 10, 2015, 4:47 PM**

Glory, Glory,

hammersklavier · #**1275** Posted **Dec 10, 2015, 8:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by boxbot

From Building Philly, we have caissons!!

Are you sure they're caissons? They could just be caisson-shaped piles of rebar stuck in the ground in caisson-like fashion ...

1487 · #**1276** Posted **Dec 10, 2015, 9:26 PM**

this is the most complex surface parking lot ever. Wait, 8th and market might have this beat.

Knight Hospitaller · #**1277** Posted **Dec 10, 2015, 9:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by 1487

this is the most complex surface parking lot ever. Wait, 8th and market might have this beat.

Yeah, you do have to wonder whether this is going to become site prep for a future development. I'll feel better when I see more than big arrows pointing to a patch of rebar.

summersm343 · #**1278** Posted **Dec 10, 2015, 9:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by hammersklavier

Are you sure they're caissons? They could just be caisson-shaped piles of rebar stuck in the ground in caisson-like fashion ...

Clearly they're installing caissons to support the new parking kiosk they will construct when they repave this for a new surface parking lot

summersm343 · #**1279** Posted **Dec 10, 2015, 9:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by Knight Hospitaller

Yeah, you do have to wonder whether this is going to become site prep for a future development. I'll feel better when I see more than big arrows pointing to a patch of rebar.

If they're installing caissons, that means this is 99% moving forward barring an overnight economic collapse.

Knight Hospitaller · #**1280** Posted **Dec 10, 2015, 10:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by summersm343

If they're installing caissons, that means this is 99% moving forward barring an overnight economic collapse.

Hopefully that's what we're seeing and not the Lost Ark peeking out of the ruins of ancient Philly.