AUSTIN | Hyatt Centric Congress Avenue | 346 FEET | 31 FLOORS | Complete - Page 20

We vs us · #**381** Posted **Apr 29, 2021, 1:11 PM**

It really is much more amazing in real life than on paper. Really striking.

drummer · #**382** Posted **Apr 29, 2021, 2:29 PM**

I'm ready for the glass wall on the bottom to go in.

corvairkeith · #**383** Posted **May 5, 2021, 6:13 PM**

jkconno · #**384** Posted **May 5, 2021, 9:34 PM**

I'm loving the glass side of this building. Wonder why they never really seemed to show it in the renders.

Urbannizer · #**385** Posted **May 5, 2021, 10:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by drummer

I'm ready for the glass wall on the bottom to go in.

Glass at the bottom will likely be installed once the crane is removed.

The ATX · #**386** Posted **May 28, 2021, 9:27 PM**

The last crane jump is happening this weekend:

Geckos_Rule · #**387** Posted **May 31, 2021, 2:42 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by The ATX

The last crane jump is happening this weekend:

I guess it's easy to move fast when you only need to build 2000 sq feet per floor plate?

It's amazing to me that it seems like this spent more time demolishing the existing 1-floor building than it will getting all the way to topped out.

Echostatic · #**388** Posted **May 31, 2021, 3:48 PM**

Demolition started on February 3rd, 2020. Vertical construction started about September 2020. So it was ~7 months to demolish the 1 story building and it's been ~8 months to build 26 floorplates.

KevinFromTexas · #**389** Posted **May 31, 2021, 6:35 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Geckos_Rule

I guess it's easy to move fast when you only need to build 2000 sq feet per floor plate?

It's amazing to me that it seems like this spent more time demolishing the existing 1-floor building than it will getting all the way to topped out.

Yeah, I remember the photos of the demolition guys wearing bunny suits carrying out bags of asbestos contaminated material. It's a lengthy process. It's a bit crazy to think that it takes longer to remedy that old building material than it does to build a modern skyscraper that is at least 10 times taller than what was there before.

drummer · #**390** Posted **Jun 1, 2021, 1:25 PM**

I think this one should be skinnier.

kingkirbythe.... · #**391** Posted **Jun 1, 2021, 2:31 PM**

Yeah, this building’s thigh gap could be gapi-er.

MichaelB · #**392** Posted **Jun 1, 2021, 5:19 PM**

Re: Demo. Remember part of the complexity of the demo is that the basement level was linked to the State Theatre! That took more care/time. There is plenty of documentation of that to go back and look at.

Echostatic · #**393** Posted **Jun 1, 2021, 9:27 PM**

This skinny little thing is poking into the 6XG webcam's view now.

Urbannizer · #**394** Posted **Jun 3, 2021, 1:45 AM**

Still waiting on that crane jump as it didn’t occur last weekend- likely due to inclement weather.

gillynova · #**395** Posted **Jun 3, 2021, 4:52 AM**

Love that shot, Urbannizer!

drummer · #**396** Posted **Jun 3, 2021, 2:06 PM**

The comparison with the Omni is striking!

DaveinWimberley · #**397** Posted **Jun 4, 2021, 12:37 PM**

I think the construction workers all quit. it really hasn't been raining every day, all day, after all! That crane jump ain't happening until the cows come home and replace the absent workers, it seems. But then I remember that it seemed like it would take years, if not centuries, for 70 Rainey to get built, considering all the months they seemed to have only 3 on site workers, and I would LOVE to have a west-facing condo there!. While they've been waiting to jump the crane here, 6X has had multiple significant night time concrete pours in very questionable weather conditions, but each time, what looked like it might have turned into a good storm, judging from the approaching lightning, they lucked out and only had to deal with only a few hundredths of an inch during the pours.
As for Drummer's mention of the Omni, I remembered nobody even really talked about it until it popped up one day. I remembered thinking about it as a ginormous huge massive building kind of like we're all talking about the appearance of 6X.
What a difference just a few years (sort of) makes!

KevinFromTexas · #**398** Posted **Jun 6, 2021, 2:27 AM**

The webcam seems to be inactive.

https://katerra.com/projects/hyatt-centric/

DaveinWimberley · #**399** Posted **Jun 6, 2021, 9:35 AM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

The webcam seems to be inactive.

https://katerra.com/projects/hyatt-centric/

Considering I have only seen 2 construction workers on this site in over a week, and the web cam has been down for quite some time, now, it occurs to me that
something unusual is going on at the site, but I have no idea what it might be.

Maybe the cows couldn't find their way back home and ended up at some other place where the grass was greener? Or at least there WAS some grass. Maybe they ended up at the XXXXXX Ranch?

The ATX · #**400** Posted **Jun 6, 2021, 11:13 AM**

The webcam has been working until sometime late Saturday night. It was working earlier Saturday evening when I checked it. But even with the storms we have been having, it seems like they could have done the jump already.