as promised, a long-delayed update. sorry it coincided with some gloomy weather, but sometimes the muted lighting actually helps with visibility, evening out the shadows.
starting with the construction in the northwest corner... mostly all one sees from ground level still are mounds of dirt. this is looking roughly east down what will be the 'outbound' road leading from the new roundabout (indiscernible in the distance) to the RR crossing at Seventh St, where this photo was taken. I think I have posted a pic from this same vantage point previously.
... and this is looking down the 'inbound' road from roughly the same place:
this is looking south-southwest from what was the corner of Sixth and Channel (the curb and hydrant are the last remnants of the intersection). for many years there was a golf driving range here. 1500 Owens and Gladstone building in the distance.
this is looking southeast from Channel along what will be a short corridor that lines up with Fifth Street across the creek, behind the point of view of the photo. this is parcel P5, slated to become a dog run:
on the south side of Channel St itself, the sidewalk has been partially chewed up and I imagine will be redone soon. here looking southwest from Fourth:
here also looking southwest from Fourth, down what will be Long Bridge Street, which is the one that runs parallel to Channel to the south, eventually angling between Fourth and the west end of the Commons - for the moment there are still a couple buildings in the way of the western end.
so inroads are being made into the wide no-man's land, but there is plenty of nothing still out there. looking west from Fourth:
and just because it's been a while, here's a shot of the CVRB from Fourth:
jumping over to Radiance II, it looks like the bases for two cranes (only one visible here) have been set up, and construction continues across the entire footprint of the large parcel. looking south with Bayer/Nektar in the distance:
and, one of the most interesting new developments for me, new concrete piles are being driven after all on the site south of the Bayer/Nektar companion building along Third! this is taken looking northwest from the roof of the South St parking garage.
on the northern site it looks like they are done driving those piles (which here were steel), and it seemed they were busy cleaning up and setting up fencing maybe so that the passage between the two sites (barely visible on the left in the photo), running from Third to the little plaza and lane behind the parking garage, could be opened to pedestrians.
here is a shot also taken from the South St garage, of the medical center site. they have recently put in a parking lot (not really visible here, hidden behind the parking garage in the foreground) for the anticipated influx of vehicles when construction gets into full swing next month. also, not sure if you can really see, but they were digging up Sixteenth on the east side of Third, looked like they were about to lay large sewer pipes there (which are waiting in the wings on Illinois):
and last and maybe least, in the Commons parcel in front of the CVRB and Diller Cancer building, it looked like they had recently tidied up and graded, and they were repairing the section of North Mission Bay Blvd that had been torn up while they were doing the construction there on the sewer and pumping station earlier this year and last. I'm guessing they will be opening that street to pedestrians soon too? looking west from Third:
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