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  1. Geoff8201
    Poles are up for netting. A significant amount of drainage materials arrived on site this past week… now if only they can keep the mud from washing out in every heavy rain and flooding southbound Buffalo Speedway. The closest storm drain is netted to keep big debris out but after the hurricane it’s been super slow to drain (second photo taken this past Wednesday)
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    Saturday snapshot. Hole square footage keeps growing!
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    That was one serious storm… While doing damage assessment here, looked over to see The RO had quite a lot of water to pump out. Took this just after the storm. I feel bad for whomever had to pick up the blown over port-a-potties. Today it’s a mud pit with more rain expected, but crews are back on site.
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    This week’s photo. The hole is getting bigger. I’ll also was finally able to read the Costar article @Urbannizer posted a link to (but required a subscription). Learned some good info I wasn’t aware of before. The Vitol building will be a total of 146,000 square feet in the 2.3 acre Parcel 2 with three levels of the above ground parking garage. Seems the rendering from the article looks accurate to those numbers. What confuses me is are permits that state 479,226 sq ft (the entire property is 740,000 sq ft or 17 acres)…….. Maybe the permits cover multiple parcels for the site work? Transwestern sold the 4.7 acre Parcel 7 at the south end of the property to Oxy and that will be the site of their building in the near future. Felt like I missed this news before. The restaurant / retail portion of the development will occupy 75,000 sq ft.
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    Unable to read the article without subscribing. Is this a final rendering for Parcel 2, which is currently being worked on now? I have not seen much in the way of updates on what was originally the 13-Story “Jenga” building in older renderings.
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    Lots of progress in a week. Been watching it daily and they have moved some serious dirt. I’ll see in the morning a line of over a dozen dump trucks ready to haul away dirt, with more coming and going all day. They have broken away an old retaining wall that bordered the west edge of what used to be the Exxon Training Center, as the hole gets bigger. First two photos are from Wednesday, last two from just now.
  7. Geoff8201 started following St. John's Church & School At 2450 River Oaks Blvd. & 2401 Claremont Ln.
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    Current progress.
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    Today’s current progress.
  10. Geoff8201
    Thanks Hindesky for sharing that info. Will be exciting to see. Does this 4-story building replace the original plans we saw for a 13-Floor leasable office building on Parcel 2? I heard from a source the power poles that were just relocated as part of the Alabama reconstruction from Weslayan to Buffalo Speedway, will be removed and the lines buried underground. This was to be at The RO’s expense since they want the complex to look great in every sense, including not having power poles in front of their new buildings. If that turns out to be the case, props to them for the improvement.
  11. Geoff8201
    What a beautiful site to see. Ground breaking before the ground breaking.
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    Signs of life. I suspect step 1 is to relocate trees within the site prior to breaking any ground for construction? When porta-potties are on site that’s a good sign. There’s a third one outside the frame of this shot. In the bottom of that photo looks like that one tree possibly sustained a lighting strike.
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    Awesome find Monarch! I loved everything about that article and what the RO will be (which I and most of us have been pronouncing wrong as R, O. Will have to get used to pronouncing it Row). I heard somewhere that we wouldn’t see groundbreaking until the end of the year which I didn’t post because it seemed like we were going to see movement sooner. I like the idea of the single level giant parking garage to feel like a big surface lot, but underground; the prospect of up to 8 restaurants; the range of living from nice to ultra luxurious, along with where they drew their design inspirations. Hope to start seeing tree relocation (glad they are doing this as well) and some massive digging with the next month or so. Also, to the question asked the cost question on that 900-Ton Crane, it’s up to $200,000 per use.
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    It’s a second and final Cooling Tower being lifted. In order for the building not to have a complete air conditioning outage one cooling tower is replaced at a time while the other is running. That’s the reason it takes two crane lifts.
  15. Geoff8201
    I’m counting at least 12 permits pulled so far for 3030 Buffalo Speedway (parcel 1), 3070 Buffalo Speedway (all wastewater) and 3425 West Alabama Street (parcel 2). The latter puts it in a different zip code. I also heard that the new utility poles on Alabama that were moved for the COH Alabama restoration will be removed and the lines ran underground, at the RO’s expense. They don’t want a bunch of power lines running in front of their new buildings, which is a big plus. The UK portion of the Alabama Reconstruction could start as early as July, but since these things never start on time it will likely be by the end of the year or first of 2025.
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    Personally I wasn’t expecting anything around this time of the year during the holidays. Will be eyeing it in January and hopefully after 4-5 years of delays we might see something. Did an open permit search. Looks like Parcel 1 will have a 3030 address while the site as a whole is 3120.
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