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11/1/14

 

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Fantastic.  Aside from the newer stuff -- 601 Main, the pipe wrench, and 1000 Main -- it's pretty cool to consider the renovations in that pic over the last 10 or so years. From l-r,  Post Dispatch Building (Magnolia Hotel), Texaco, Texas State Hotel,  St. Germain, Commerce Tower, JW Marriott, Great Jones Building.   Lost the medical tower on Hines site, Montague Hotel, West Building, Macy's, San Jacinto Hotel.  Pretty good example of rehabbing works and replacing the obsolete with something as good or better.

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Maybe some kind of white powder they put down on the dirt for the excavator? No idea but curious too

 

More than likely it's lime.  It greatly improves the stability of soil and would coincide with the fact that the ground is a little saturated.

 

Here's a little write up that Purdueenginerd probably wrote in fourth grade or so: http://www.lime.org/uses_of_lime/construction/soil.asp

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