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July 24, 2008
Inside Third & Bond: Week 46
Now this starts to get really fun. The bloggers from The Hudson Companies get ready to put some beams into the ground...After a couple of weeks of excavation, we’re ready to start putting stuff into the ground rather than removing it. Yesterday, our subcontractor arrived and parked his rig at the site. The rig will be used to install solider beams for shoring the edges of the property—everywhere but where there are existing buildings to be underpinned.
When we arrived at the trailer on Wednesday around 9a.m....
...a bulldozer was smoothing a couple of truckloads of gravel into a ramp at the corner of Third & Bond, while the rig waited on the street.
The subcontractor in charge of the rig, Empire, is busy despite the economic downturn. When a sub is busy, sometimes you end up waiting around for them. We don’t want to wait because that means we lose time on our job. Empire’s arrival today was marked with photographs, phone calls and emails back to the office. You’d think Obama was driving the rig given our excitement.
Empire will start installing the beams tomorrow. A vibration monitor consultant will be on-site to make sure things don’t get too crazy. Next week we’ll start the mini-pile pull test so that the underpinning work can begin. Within the month, we should have all of our piles in place – knock on wood.
Inside Third & Bond: Week 45 [Brownstoner]
Inside Third & Bond: Week 44 [Brownstoner]
Inside Third & Bond: Week 43 [Brownstoner]
Inside Third & Bond: Week 42 [Brownstoner]
Inside Third & Bond: Week 41 [Brownstoner]
Inside Third & Bond: Week 40 [Brownstoner]
From our lawyers: “This is not an offering. No offering can be made until an offering plan is filed with the Department of Law of the State of New York."
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I'm getting intrigued by these. Can you post a link to the renderings and what will be offered again, etc.? Thanks.
Posted by: Breukelen at July 24, 2008 12:36 PM
After 45 weeks, we've got a bulldozed pit? This is moving at Freedom Toweresque speed.
Posted by: Biff Champion at July 24, 2008 12:52 PM
Biff,
You do realize, right, that this blog was started just after site acquisition and before any design work was done? It is by no means unusual for the pre-construction phase on a decent-sized job to take this long. The fact that you seem to think otherwise indicates that, even after having the myriad commercial and regulatory processes that must be dealt with presented to you via this blog, your understanding of what goes into a development project before a shovel gets put in the ground is sorely lacking.
Posted by: johnife at July 24, 2008 1:20 PM
johnife, thanks for the unsolicited and unnecessary insight and once again showing your ability to recognize an obvious light-hearted comment is what is truly sorely lacking.
Posted by: Biff Champion at July 24, 2008 1:29 PM
how much time does a pm spend at the construction site in a typical week?
Posted by: mrsbereket at July 30, 2008 3:17 AM
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