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Block 599 (599 Strasburg Rd) | 8 fl | Completed - Printable Version

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RE: Block 599 (599 Strasburg Rd) | 8 fl | U/C - ac3r - 10-11-2023

Always amazing to see how slow they are.

RE: Block 599 (599 Strasburg Rd) | 8 fl | U/C - KevinL - 12-03-2023

The first three floors have windows in, and they've started framing the seventh.

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RE: Block 599 (599 Strasburg Rd) | 8 fl | U/C - KevinL - 01-30-2024

Seventh floor (first with concrete balcony edges) is nearly complete, and they've started on the eighth.

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RE: Block 599 (599 Strasburg Rd) | 8 fl | U/C - mastermind - 01-31-2024

This is quite a long building. Or maybe it only looks that way since it's not super tall.

RE: Block 599 (599 Strasburg Rd) | 8 fl | U/C - ac3r - 01-31-2024

Yeah it's quite long...at least by North American standards. Elsewhere around the world that would be a common sight. Frankly I wish most city blocks in this region had large midrise buildings like they do over in Europe...

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RE: Block 599 (599 Strasburg Rd) | 8 fl | U/C - jeffster - 02-22-2024

(01-31-2024, 10:32 AM)mastermind Wrote: This is quite a long building.  Or maybe it only looks that way since it's not super tall.

It's long. It goes around the block, and it seems like it would be quite a walk from one end to the other. Perhaps one explanation why this is taking so long to build.

RE: Block 599 (599 Strasburg Rd) | 8 fl | U/C - KevinL - 05-19-2024

Topped out, and most windows are in.

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RE: Block 599 (599 Strasburg Rd) | 8 fl | U/C - ac3r - 05-19-2024

Is there any commercial/business space on the ground floor? The OP didn't specify. It's on a busy intersection so I'd sure hope so. Would be cool if this area could densify a bunch. Sell that whole useless dead mall location to a developer, plop down a bunch of mixed use areas. Bus routes go through there...maybe in 60+ years rapid trans would be there. It's just a perfect area to turn into a livable, walkable and commutable community.

RE: Block 599 (599 Strasburg Rd) | 8 fl | U/C - ZEBuilder - 05-19-2024

(05-19-2024, 09:12 PM)ac3r Wrote: Is there any commercial/business space on the ground floor? The OP didn't specify. It's on a busy intersection so I'd sure hope so. Would be cool if this area could densify a bunch. Sell that whole useless dead mall location to a developer, plop down a bunch of mixed use areas. Bus routes go through there...maybe in 60+ years rapid trans would be there. It's just a perfect area to turn into a livable, walkable and commutable community.

The building permit doesn't say anything of the sort, a lot of the time the permits will say mixed use when there's ground floor commercial, but this permit just says apartment. From walking by the building it certainly doesn't look to have any retail unless the entrance to it is hidden. It really just seems like another generic Drewlo building.

RE: Block 599 (599 Strasburg Rd) | 8 fl | U/C - ZEBuilder - 06-18-2024

The crane for this came down today, as I went by early this morning the mobile crane wasn't on site yet but the riggers already were. Driving by this afternoon the crane is entirely gone, and the pieces are at Drewlo's site on Fallowfield.

RE: Block 599 (599 Strasburg Rd) | 8 fl | U/C - KevinL - 06-28-2024

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RE: Block 599 (599 Strasburg Rd) | 8 fl | U/C - Ellensparky - 08-23-2024

Does anyone have the design brief for this?

RE: Block 599 (599 Strasburg Rd) | 8 fl | U/C - KevinL - 08-31-2024

Painting has been proceeding well.

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RE: Block 599 (599 Strasburg Rd) | 8 fl | U/C - KevinL - 10-15-2024

Leasing has opened, per the banners.

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RE: Block 599 (599 Strasburg Rd) | 8 fl | U/C - tomh009 - 10-15-2024

Need the balcony glass for the final look ... but I think the rounded corner is good, makes it look less like a generic box.