[vdogg]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/vdogg/66c53cda.jpg

The following pics courtesy of guynvb

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02744.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02747.jpg

[dbranham]

I don't know anything about this project. Can you give some info (height, location relative to other things, will it be composed of hotel rooms and condos, etc.)? Thanks for the pictures.

[vdogg]

Sorry, there are actually a couple of threads for the project itself so I assumed most had seen it.

Here's a post I made in another thread a while back.

Haven't been back in a while so I thought i'd give an update. The dimesions of the tower have changed slightly. It is now 38 stories (36 residential floors and 2 mechanical) and 501 feet tall. Construction has commenced on this project, pile driving began last week. Here is the latest rendering.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/vdogg/ec3a0504.jpg

[vdogg]

It is a hotel-condo project

[vdogg]

I don't know anything about this project. Can you give some info (height, location relative to other things, will it be composed of hotel rooms and condos, etc.)? Thanks for the pictures.

It's all part of the Virginia Beach Towncenter Project located in this thread (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=95745)

[NSUREDD]

Why can't my computer get the pictures??? (sniff,sniff)

[guynvb]

Here are a few updated pics I took this morning.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02791.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02793.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02794.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02795.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02796.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02797.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02798.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02799.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02800.jpg

[urbanlife]

looking constructiony!

[ejohnson]

I am glad to see that Virginia Beach is getting a true DT center with tall buildings and shops. Is this the building that is suppose to rival the Granby Tower?

[ppassafi]

Buildings? How many more buildings are being constructed in Va Beach? Will it have a good skyline?

[vdogg]

There are 3 more midrise (condo complex block 9, pembroke retail office park, and city center), plus another midrise apartment tower in a development called CityView right on the edge of TC. There are 3 more highrises planned as of right now, the 2nd 20 story office Tower and 2 highrise towers for the City Walk development across the street.

[James2390]

Great tower, but I really hope it isn't surrounded by grass like in the rendering.

[vdogg]

Great tower, but I really hope it isn't surrounded by grass like in the rendering.
:haha: That rendering is inaccurate for several reasons (note: pine trees in the background and northern lights in the sky). Don't worry, there are or will be buildings on all sides.

[urbanlife]

you mean northern lights and pine trees are not native to that area??

[metalman]

Great tower, but I really hope it isn't surrounded by grass like in the rendering.

No, in fact the first picture in this thread is the same angle as the night rendering of the Westin. The only different being that the photo is taken from some 300 feet up and the rendering is practically ground level. That should give you an idea of the surrounding area.

BTW, most of the trees in this area are Sweet gums, pines, and oaks.

Metalman

[guynvb]

new construction pics from today

Today I took some new pics. A security guard asked me why I was taking pics, I said for my personal enjoyment. He said don't you know it is illegal? I shrugged my shoulders and kept walking. :frog:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02849.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02850.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02851.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02852.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02853.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02854.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02855.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02856.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02857.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02858.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02859.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02860.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02861.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02862.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02863.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02864.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02865.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02866.jpg

Johnny Rocket's signage is now up.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02867.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02869.jpg

Pretty cool, eh?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02868.jpg

The Cosmo now has a new marquee.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC02870.jpg

[urbanlife]

oddly enough I like the cosmo marquee.

[vdogg]

Just a few quick update pics.

Moving right along

http://static.flickr.com/52/133424944_9c5a8a977d_b.jpg

You can see the Garage ramp starting to take shape here

http://static.flickr.com/44/133425198_64f410fa45_b.jpg

[vdogg]

http://static.flickr.com/45/133422646_ef3d1a0c08_b.jpg

[urbanlife]

sweet!! I love that that little house is getting so documented before it gets torn down too.

[ejohnson]

What is that shorter across the street form the Town Center Tower? A hotel?

[wrldcoupe4]

This tower will be a hotel with condos... I think you are referring to the Cosmopolitan, which is condos or apts. i think.

[uncompahgre]

Wow...this whole development is coming along very nicely. Good job VA Beach.

[zaphod]

Today I took some new pics. A security guard asked me why I was taking pics, I said for my personal enjoyment. He said don't you know it is illegal? I shrugged my shoulders and kept walking.

Lol.

where do they find those renta cops?

[metalman]

Divaris, the retail/office leasing co. and part owner of the TC development hires there own security for the Town Center.

BTW, the 14 story mid-rise building is the Cosmopolitan, an apartment tower.

And, the other block under construction next to the Westin is the Sandler Performing Arts Center.

check out http://www.vabeachtowncenter.com


Metalman

[navyweaxguy]

I drive by this thing twice a day and it sure feels like they are moving slow as molassas on it. I only live about 4 blocks away from it and I can't wait to see it completed... maybe by then i will have saved up enough money to stay there for a night :D my VA loan wouldn't be enough to buy a broom closet there. :D

[Richmonopoly]

Indeed it is nice.

I am glad to see VABeach establishing a City Center Core.
And especially to see it move along so intensly.

[vdogg]

I drive by this thing twice a day and it sure feels like they are moving slow as molassas on it. I only live about 4 blocks away from it and I can't wait to see it completed... maybe by then i will have saved up enough money to stay there for a night :D my VA loan wouldn't be enough to buy a broom closet there. :D
It may feel like they're moving slow but they're already at a 3 floor per month pace. 1 floor per week is the optimal pace for concrete construction. They have just completed the 4th story (or technically 5th "floor") of this tower. 1 more floor and they will have completed all the levels of the tower portion that will have to be married up with the garage. Once this is done, both height and pace will take off as the height of the floors past the garage level will be noticeably taller and the pace will increase due to the fact that there is far less complexity to the pure hotel and condo floors. Plus driving by it twice a day is like waiting for the proverbial pot to boil. :tup:

[urbanlife]

yeah the beginning part of the construction feels like it takes forever, but once the tower part gets rolling, one day it suprises you and your like "holy crap' they are half way done!"

I recently had that feeling with a tower here in Portland that I see everyday on my way to class and such.

[metalman]

Well, they have one tower crane and 3 other cranes on site workin'. It does seem kinda slow now, but I bet once they start with the garage structure, the pace will seem to pick up.

Vdogg, I'm also one of those-pass it two or more times a day- guy.

[navyweaxguy]

I need to get over there and take some pictures... later this summer we should think about a Va Beach forum meet at Silver Diner :D

[vdogg]

2 miscellaneous pics I forgot to post

http://static.flickr.com/52/144248989_50e61c4884_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/48/144249184_69790e89cd_b.jpg

[vdogg]

http://static.flickr.com/65/163913384_c961a1ec37_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/65/163912925_6c51f3c90d_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/65/163912625_651c0fc02f_b.jpg

When I last posted a month ago they had started work on the 5th floor, now they're working on the 9th. The pace has picked up considerably. :) :cheers:

[vdogg]

Updated rendering

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/vdogg/Renderings/Pc0370700.jpg

[vdogg]

Here is a construction timeline for the project. Notice that it's expected to hit 500ft by december. :D :yahoo:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/vdogg/Ar0380014.png

[metalman]

Thanks for all the updates here Vdogg! :tup: It's gonna be HOT:hell:

That's one hell of a close-up rendering they put in the papers this past week. If you look close enough you can see people barbequeing on the penthouse balcony. :)

[navyweaxguy]

When it gets close to being topped out we should sweet talk the workers into giving us a tour.

[ajfroggie]

Problem is, I see that making Independence/Virginia Beach Blvd even more of a mess than it is today...

[vdogg]

Problem is, I see that making Independence/Virginia Beach Blvd even more of a mess than it is today...
They estimated Westin will bring in 5500 extra cars per day on independence when completed. It is already 10,000 per day over capacity. Such is the price of progress I guess. :shrug:

[ajfroggie]

Such is the way of things in Virginia Beach...

"Damn the roads, we want development!"

Or, better yet, "Damn Oceana, we want that development!"

[vdogg]

http://static.flickr.com/60/174052068_7f4363e97d_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/52/174052175_85d76a97eb_b.jpg

[urbanlife]

the virginia beach city center is actually starting to look like a real city center instead of a glorified shopping center that I was affraid would happen when I first heard about the town center.

[BnaBreaker]

Geez, those sidewalks have the capacity to hold about three people.

[vdogg]

Geez, those sidewalks have the capacity to hold about three people.
What sidewalks are you referring too? I didn't take a picture of any sidewalks.

[vdogg]

Westin Progress: 11th story finished, 12th floor started

http://static.flickr.com/69/179195524_3bf60d7ab4_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/46/179195577_047f980344_b.jpg

[vdogg]

Westin and AH Tower side by side comparison.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/vdogg/Renderings/comparixon.jpg

[vdogg]

14th story finished

http://static.flickr.com/74/191196957_d20141df05_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/55/191196355_c4b6683717_b.jpg

[vdogg]

New Westin office should enhance robust sales
Aggressive schedule keeps tallest building

Janet Dunphy
Inside Business - Hampton Roads
Monday July 31, 2006

Flying tables and tower cranes dominate the western edge of Town Center in Virginia Beach as the tallest building in Virginia takes shape.

The Westin Hotel and Condominiums has a $183.6 million price tag and a $98 million contract price for the builder, Armada Hoffler. It is due for delivery in late 2007.

The clients are Town Center Associates LLC, which includes Armada Hoffler and Divaris Real Estate, and the Virginia Beach Economic Development Authority.

Thanks to what the builder calls an aggressive construction schedule, the Westin is showing vertical progress toward the goal of 39 floors :cheers: . One is poured per week with number 15 scheduled for Aug. 1 or 2.

The project includes retail, a conference center and parking. The hotel will be managed by Crestline Hotels and Resorts.

The flying tables on the upper reaches of the Westin are platforms that are moved along the outer edges of the building before a concrete floor is poured. The tower crane was just raised 100 feet to keep the process going.

“It’s a big expense, so it needs to go fast,” said Bernard Shumate Jr., a project executive with Armada Hoffler, the builder. “It took two years to get to this point.”

The topping out is planned for Jan. 31, 2007.

Sales have been robust for the 119 condominiums. Last week, 76 were under binding contract with 10 percent down and the sales office, manned by Rose & Womble Realty Company, didn’t even open until July 20.

Incidentally, it is located on the ground floor of the Dick’s Sporting Goods building – across from the work site – in space that has never been occupied. Streamlined models of the Westin’s 236 guest rooms will be constructed in more space next door to work out any bugs in the design and for Crestline marketing purposes.

The official opening of the sales office on July 20 included a hard hat tour that only a few people took. Bob Scott, director of the Virginia Beach Department of Planning, was one of them. Shumate and Phil Sheridan, Armada Hoffler’s site manager at the Westin, conducted the tour.

“It’s fascinating because it creates a brand new ID for the city,” Scott said.

“When we did the 21-story building, we were in brand new territory,” said Sheridan, referring to the Armada Hoffler Tower in Town Center.

The tour started on Commerce Street, which connects to Independence Boulevard, where the main entrance will be located. A restaurant, described as American Fusion by the hosts, will be to the left of the entrance.

The lobby will feature a glass stairway, a waterfall and a replica Fresnel Lens, a design originally developed for lighthouses. It’s all supposed to reflect a nautical theme. There will also be retail on the ground floor.

The second floor consists of the conference center and business facilities and the third and fourth floors are storage for the residences.

The days when the concrete is poured are intense. The crews start at 2 a.m. and stop at 7 p.m.

“It’s a long day, but it’s the only way we keep the cycle going,” said Sheridan, a former Navy Seabee who wants to make sure the superintendents – Mike Clifford, Keith Sanders and Dean Stacy – get credit for their roles, too.

Shumate said he and Sheridan helped create the construction schedule and then trimmed two months off of it.

“We tightened up the activities and there’s no time when we aren’t working on the critical structure,” Shumate said.

A pre-cast concrete site along Independence helped to speed the job along and also provided a lay-down yard for the subcontractor, Sheridan said. It butts up against the cast parking garage that wraps around a portion of the building.

The portable construction elevator runs up and down the side of the building all day long. Sheridan said it is tested with 8,000 pounds each time the project goes up six floors.

In the future, two more elegant versions from two different lobbies will run hotel guests from floors one to 15 and residents from floors one to 37, but the latter will not stop at the hotel floors, which are six to 16. There are 37 livable floors and two floors for storage and mechanical purposes.

The first stop on the tour was the fifth floor, the future fitness center. The pool and Jacuzzi have been poured. There are no outside walls, so a mesh fence serves as a temporary wall that can stop 200 pounds as a safety measure, Sheridan said.

While the concrete crews move upward, the poured floors begin to take shape. The electricity, plumbing and mechanical contractors move in. Sheridan can pinpoint each guest room or residence based on the pipes sticking up through the concrete or lining the ceiling above.

“These holes don’t happen by accident,” Sheridan said, indicating the places where pipes will run. “They have to be properly engineered. It doesn’t allow for a lot of hiccups.”

Safety, supplies, schedules and architectural questions are all reviewed in weekly meetings. Stakeholder meetings are held every other week.

According to Rose & Womble information, more than half of the 15 penthouse condos, from 2,800 square feet to 4,200 square feet, have been sold for amounts ranging from $1.5 million to $4 million.

So who wants to buy a condo in the heart of Virginia Beach?

“People that travel and are used to urban areas,” answered Frank Mageras, a Rose & Womble Realtor. “It’s very similar to what they were used to in previous experiences. Others have lived here before or have business interests or family here.”

He said the buyers start at about age 30.

The condos start on the 16th floor with the efficiency models, which are 700 to 1,000 square feet and cost $390,000 and $416,000. The two-bedroom models are 1,700 to 2,500 square feet and range in price from $624,000 to $1 million. The one-bedroom with a study at 1,500 square feet costs $602,000 to $702,000.

The two-bedroom model has been the most popular, but there are only three one-bedroom units left of 14, Mageras said. One selling point for prospective buyers is the hotel below where out-of-town guests can stay, he said.

http://www.insidebiz.com/output.cfm?ID=4355516

[vdogg]

16th floor finished, 17th floor started

http://static.flickr.com/62/201325196_bc54cb53a9_b.jpg

[metalman]

Once again that for the relentless up dates here. This is gonna look sweat and it will be great to extend the foot traffic in town center westward once this and the PAC open there doors. Hopefully too, it will held fill the retail space next to Dick's sportings goods. Retailer won't feel they are so isolated once the Westin becomes operational.

:)

[InfillJunkie]

When it gets close to being topped out we should sweet talk the workers into giving us a tour.

Hey Navy, how come rotten stinken Denver cant get a tower like this built??? HA?!!?!?! You're a CO native...tell me?? WHY WHY WHY??

LOL

[vdogg]

18 floor finished, 19th started

http://static.flickr.com/68/213186915_4e03a95768_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/76/213186598_3a709c878e_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/67/213186851_3ac3938e1e_b.jpg

[pellie]

while doing a search of Virginia Beach Town Center stuff. I thought it was an interesting thread. I'm moving into The Cosmopolitan within the next couple of months. My apartment will look out at the The Westin. I figure it should be a pretty cool view. If any one is interested i'll take some construction pictures from my apartment after i move in.

[vdogg]

while doing a search of Virginia Beach Town Center stuff. I thought it was an interesting thread. I'm moving into The Cosmopolitan within the next couple of months. My apartment will look out at the The Westin. I figure it should be a pretty cool view. If any one is interested i'll take some construction pictures from my apartment after i move in.

Of course I would love to see pictures from there. You should visit and post your pics here (http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/index.php?showforum=227)
as well. :)

[navyweaxguy]

Here is a small update from this afternoon. :)

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/navyweaxguy/tc01.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/navyweaxguy/tc02.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/navyweaxguy/tc03.jpg

[vdogg]

http://static.flickr.com/88/230095139_72496e55ca_o.jpg

About halfway up and making an impact. :)

[gsupstate]

This is looking great! :tup: Several floors added since the last time I was in the area.

[urbanlife]

I still can't believe something this tall is being built in VB, just too cool.

[vdogg]

21st floor completed, 22nd started. They slowed down quite a bit due to the storm, holiday weekend, and the fact that they have to raise the crane today. Things should be back at a quicker pace however once they finish raising the crane.

http://static.flickr.com/86/239308300_1981971710_b.jpg

[vdogg]

An additional pic courtesy of guynvb

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC03166.jpg

[pkp]

My wife and I are flying to Virginia Beach for short weekend (to see a concert) next month. We're staying at another hotel at the Towncenter. What's to do in the area or within a short drive? Haven't been to this part of Virginia in years and the only thing I saw then was Williamsburg.

[metalman]

Well, within the towncenter and immediate surrounding area there are many large retailers, shops, a comedy club, restaurants, bars, coffeehouses, Pembroke mall across the street, etc, etc.

Lynnhaven Mall is about 8mins away. The largest mall between DC and Atlanta

About 11 miles east down Virginia Beach Blvd or I 264 east, you will hit the Oceanfront. The weather will be cooling off a bit but it'll still be nice to go to the boardwalk and the beach. Again, many oppourtunities to eat, drink, and shop down there.

Not too far from the oceanfront down Pacific Ave and over the Rudee Inlet bridge (from this point called General Booth Blvd) is The Virginia Aquarium (and marine science center). An excellent aqaurium. It is undergoing many upgrades and renovations, but some of there aquariums include a "Chesapeake Bay" aqarium, Sea turtle aquarium, A shark tank, a skate and ray touch tank and other smaller tanks. There also are various weather, scientific, and hands-on exeriments and activities, A nature trail through the natural marshland takes you to the second building of the VA Aquarium. There they have a large sea otter tank/habitat, an outdoor aviary, and other various fish, sea creature, and marshland exhibits and hands on stuff.

Va Beach also Ocean Naval Air Station. If you have a thing for fighter jets there many observation points to watch these beasts fly, take-off, and land.

About 11 miles to the west of your hotel is Downtown Norfolk which has Waterside, a great building that houses many great restaurants, bars, nightclubs, a piano bar, a comedy club right on the Elizibeth River. It is directly next to Town Point Park a great city park on the Eliz. River. There also is MacArther Center mall, a 3 story mall, Nauticus (the National Maritime Center) museam which also houses the Hampton Road naval museum, and moored majestically by its side is the Battleship Wisconsin which there are tours available through Nauticus.

5 mins from Downtown is the artsy, trendy, yet very historic, victorian nieghborhood of Ghent which has a great stretch of coffeehouses, restauranst, bars, shops, etc, etc along Colley Ave. and along 21st st.

I'll stop there, but with about 15 minutes of the Hilton Garden Inn (I'm assuming your staying there, cause there is currently no other hotel in the town center), you can get to all these places and more.

I hope this helps.

Enjoy!

Metalman

[pkp]

Thanks for the info!

[vdogg]

The Westin has completed its 25th floor. Photo courtesy of guynvb from urbanplanet.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/guynvb/Virginia%20Beach%20II/DSC03183.jpg

[vdogg]

29th floor is finished, the 30th floor is now underway.

http://static.flickr.com/105/279339976_861d05206f_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/117/279339700_a7f032b97c_b.jpg

[pkp]

Stayed at the Garden Inn at the Towncenter this past weekend. Yall's ampitheatre is amazing...

[ajfroggie]

Refresh my memory...how many floors will it be?

[spark317]

Stayed at the Garden Inn at the Towncenter this past weekend. Yall's ampitheatre is amazing...

Aerosmith/Motley Crue?

[vdogg]

Refresh my memory...how many floors will it be?
The last total given was 39. I'd put it between 37-39 floors because the totals have fluctuated so much. We'll know by December though. :banana:

[pkp]

Aerosmith/Motley Crue?

damn straight - great show - flew all the way there just for the show...

[navyweaxguy]

Here is my latest update. Sorry the pic is about 10 days old.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/navyweaxguy/westinupdate.jpg

[vdogg]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/vdogg/Westin.jpg

[navyweaxguy]

The skin is up to the 13 floor on 3 sides and they were startign the 14th today.

[ajfroggie]

In that aerial photo that VDOGG posted, what's being built there to the right (north?) of the Westin? I had noticed both when I was in Norfolk briefly for a couple days last month.

[vdogg]

^^^The shops at Town Center and Citywalk. They are 2 separate developments but here's a few renderings to show how it all relates to TC.

http://www.loopnet.com/Attachments/7/8/C/78C43E8B-DE29-483D-AA57-97E6C66D0C86_or.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/vdogg/CityWalk3.jpg

And now for the original reason for my post:

Finally got the chance to take some street level pictures. They're working ont he 35th floor now and they're starting to put the glass in.

http://static.flickr.com/116/312212247_b3fbe0f926_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/110/312212580_a75060c852_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/102/312212710_fda2bbff30_b.jpg

[vdogg]

I just reread your question aj and I think I answered it wrong. To the right of the Westin is the Performing Arts Center. On that same plot of land Studio 56 will start construction in January. It will consist of a 5-story 56 loft building.

[vdogg]

repost.

[ajfroggie]

The Performing Arts Center that's replacing some theater, IIRC....

[vdogg]

The Performing Arts Center that's replacing some theater, IIRC....
It's replacing the pavillion theater that used to be at the oceanfront.

[urbanscraper]

NICE! looks like a city skyline in the making!:)

[vdogg]

:) 36th floor finished, 37th started

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/vdogg/0fbef477c1a0f3a5e8291cf782366d9a.jpg

I have received confirmation that topping out will not occur until mid-January. There will be 39 total floors. 37 residential floors, 1 floor for residential storage/other amenities, and 1 mechanical floor.

[navyweaxguy]

I like that the glass is finally starting to go in also on a couple of the sides. By Feb it will really start looking sweet.

[navyweaxguy]

Here are three pics that i took on the way home today. The skin is really starting to fill in.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/navyweaxguy/virginia384.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/navyweaxguy/virginia386.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/navyweaxguy/virginia387.jpg

[okinawatyphoon]

Here are three pics that i took on the way home today. The skin is really starting to fill in.


Great pics navyweaxguy! You should consider bringing your pictures and discussion to UrbanPlanet's Virginia section. (http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/index.php?showforum=195) There's a lot more audience for your pictures and more comprehensive discussion.

[navyweaxguy]

Lol,no wonder this thread has been so quiet. 70+ pages there...

[vdogg]

Westin update: They are a little behind schedule, having supposed to have topped out last week. They are working on the 38th residential lounge floor and 39th mechanical floor now, and then they will move on to completion of the roof.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/160/357251805_c43caafbc5_b.jpg

[spark317]

Lol,no wonder this thread has been so quiet. 70+ pages there...

There's very little interest in Norfolk/Hampton Roads on this forum.

[urbanscraper]

NICE!! Its like watching a downtown being built from scratch

[ajfroggie]

There's very little interest in Norfolk/Hampton Roads on this forum.

I wouldn't say there's "very little interest"....more like a reduction in interest. In my case, losing the search function has resulted in me cutting down on monitoring those areas I used to live in...

[navyweaxguy]

You need to be studying for tomorrow.. not surfing the forum... :D

[navyweaxguy]

Here is a pic I took from my truck driving home in the rain... oh yeah it was a red light( I think) so I was ok :D

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/navyweaxguy/virginia414.jpg

Ok, it just turned green...

[metalman]

Wow. The Westin looks quite tall there. Especially since the tower crane is hidden in the fog. Oh yea, that's also the skinny side of the building.

Thanks for sticking your next out in traffic for the nice pic. :tup:

Metalman

[ajfroggie]

You need to be studying for tomorrow.. not surfing the forum...

I don't study. 'Sides, I made board last time...;)

Every time I see photos of Independence, I can't help but cringe at the mess of traffic that development has created along it. Building the Westin and expanding Town Center, unfortunately, will not do anything to help the situation...

[navyweaxguy]

haha ^

Not much of a change. I was already out takign pics so I snapped up a couple.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/navyweaxguy/virginia509.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/navyweaxguy/virginia513.jpg

I put some pics from around Downtown Norfolk in the City Photos section. If you get bored.

[vdogg]

Well, judging by the tree and flag they've definately topped out, which is why things are slower. All they really have left is to constuct the roof and place the spire.

[navyweaxguy]

I wish I could get up higher somewhere to take a few pics. Unfortunately not too many places for that.

[vdogg]

I wish I could get up higher somewhere to take a few pics. Unfortunately not too many places for that.

AH parking garage is about as high as you can get in that area. (unless you know someone that works in the office tower that can get you up higher). Still you'll always be looking up at the building since it's so much taller than AH.

[InfillJunkie]

Navy your photos are great! Thanks!

[navyweaxguy]

Not a big change, but here are some of the pics I took on the way home today.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/navyweaxguy/virginia618.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/navyweaxguy/virginia624.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/navyweaxguy/virginia625.jpg
Can see some guys working inside.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/navyweaxguy/virginia631.jpg
The shadow is from the Westin :D Look, lots of room for more development.:D
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/navyweaxguy/virginia627.jpg

[InfillJunkie]

Nice photos Navy!