A peek inside the making of an uptown tower: 300 South Tryon
Have you walked past 300 South Tryon uptown recently? If so, you may have peeked through the fence to see the construction going on there, which at this point looks like a gigantic pit stretching a city block.
But what does it look like from the inside? Ely Portillo recently got to see the construction from the inside, and brought a photographer with him. (I highly recommend reading his full story.)
Construction on uptown’s newest office tower is like a well-choreographed, complicated ballet http://t.co/Ufe5HsByQa pic.twitter.com/cgoO1Z9k6V
— Charlotte Observer (@theobserver) August 30, 2015
Some numbers:
– 45: The depth, in feet, of the pit at South Tryon and Third street.
– $30 million: The cost of drill rigs that are digging even deeper, looking for the bedrock that the building will rest on.
– 50-60: The number of people that work on the site now.
– 25: Stories in the tower when it’s finished. It will be sitting on top of four floors of parking and include a fitness center, a restaurant and an extension of Romare Bearden Park, stretching along Third Street to Tryon.
– 2017: When the tower should be finished, March to be exact. A 217-room hotel on the Church Street side should be finished in September 2017.
6 photos from inside the construction:
MORE APARTMENTS!: Shocker, right? A new complex, called The Dillon, is coming to Kenilworth and Morehead, bringing 379 more apartments. It’s going in across the street from Solis Dilworth and down the street from Crescent Dilworth.
In uptown, construction is underway on a small, “boutique” apartment complex on Cedar Street. The 86-unit complex will be a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments with high-end finishes, like quartz countertops, a bike room and a pool facing the uptown skyline.
YOU MISSED A SPOT: Spiffy, a mobile, on-demand car-washing service, launched in Charlotte for those folks who like clean cars but don’t want to do any of the work. The Triangle-based company has an app that you can use to schedule and pay for the services, and the Spiffy folks come to you. Services range from $19.99 to $299.
I want to meet the person paying $299 for a car wash.
Photos by David T. Foster III/Charlotte Observer.
This story was originally published August 31, 2015 at 12:17 AM with the headline "A peek inside the making of an uptown tower: 300 South Tryon."