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RE: Fairview Park Mall - Grand Market District - panamaniac - 08-28-2019
(08-28-2019, 06:28 PM)ZEBuilder Wrote:(08-07-2019, 10:01 PM)panamaniac Wrote: They’ve started to remove the precast panels on the former Sears.The panels are almost all gone and they have started putting up the new walls along the front face of the building.
So it's a reclad? I wasn't sure whether they were going to reclad or tear it down an build new.
RE: Fairview Park Mall - Grand Market District - ZEBuilder - 08-28-2019
(08-28-2019, 07:08 PM)panamaniac Wrote:I believe so because that is what it looks like(08-28-2019, 06:28 PM)ZEBuilder Wrote: The panels are almost all gone and they have started putting up the new walls along the front face of the building.
So it's a reclad? I wasn't sure whether they were going to reclad or tear it down an build new
RE: Fairview Park Mall - Grand Market District - ac3r - 08-29-2019
(08-28-2019, 07:08 PM)panamaniac Wrote:(08-28-2019, 06:28 PM)ZEBuilder Wrote: The panels are almost all gone and they have started putting up the new walls along the front face of the building.
So it's a reclad? I wasn't sure whether they were going to reclad or tear it down an build new.
Yeah. They wouldn't tear down the old structure as it's still perfectly fine structurally. They just got rid (sadly) of the brutalist concrete facade.
RE: Fairview Park Mall - Grand Market District - panamaniac - 08-29-2019
(08-29-2019, 10:26 AM)ac3r Wrote:(08-28-2019, 07:08 PM)panamaniac Wrote: So it's a reclad? I wasn't sure whether they were going to reclad or tear it down an build new.
Yeah. They wouldn't tear down the old structure as it's still perfectly fine structurally. They just got rid (sadly) of the brutalist concrete facade.
Except for a section at the back that they were persuaded to preserve, no?
RE: Fairview Park Mall - Grand Market District - urbd - 08-29-2019
(08-29-2019, 10:51 AM)panamaniac Wrote:(08-29-2019, 10:26 AM)ac3r Wrote: Yeah. They wouldn't tear down the old structure as it's still perfectly fine structurally. They just got rid (sadly) of the brutalist concrete facade.
Except for a section at the back that they were persuaded to preserve, no?
Yeah near the back entrance. Sadly? I mean, I have no opinions about the brutalist facade (well I do, I never loved it), but I do know that keeping it would have made it really hard or impossible for them to renovate for a multi tenant building with active frontages as it is planned. This project will bring so much life to this forgotten part of the city - it will detonate a lot of much needed investment and activity in and around FVM.
RE: Fairview Park Mall - Grand Market District - panamaniac - 08-29-2019
(08-29-2019, 11:06 AM)urbd Wrote:(08-29-2019, 10:51 AM)panamaniac Wrote: Except for a section at the back that they were persuaded to preserve, no?
Yeah near the back entrance. Sadly? I mean, I have no opinions about the brutalist facade (well I do, I never loved it), but I do know that keeping it would have made it really hard or impossible for them to renovate for a multi tenant building with active frontages as it is planned. This project will bring so much life to this forgotten part of the city - it will detonate a lot of much needed investment and activity in and around FVM.
The city's main retail corridor is "forgotten"? The thousands of people there every day must not have received the memo.
RE: Fairview Park Mall - Grand Market District - ijmorlan - 08-29-2019
(08-29-2019, 11:17 AM)panamaniac Wrote: The city's main retail corridor is "forgotten"? The thousands of people there every day must not have received the memo.
And what exactly is an “active” frontage? If it means outdoor circulation only, without so much as a portico to keep the rain off while I walk from one store to the next, I’ll take a proper climate-controlled mall almost any day. What are the indoor corridor frontages if not “active”? Rarely does a mall have a blank wall on a main corridor unless it’s temporary for construction. The only problem I can see is that interior corridors aren’t designed to tie into other nearby destinations — one always has to walk through a large parking lot, no matter from which direction one approaches. But that can be fixed without making everybody walk outside in all weather.
RE: Fairview Park Mall - Grand Market District - robdrimmie - 08-29-2019
The preserved facade is still very visible at the mall, as it's on the side of formerly-Sears that faces the Expressway and King St. It's a good compromise between keeping some and being able to do new work, I think.
RE: Fairview Park Mall - Grand Market District - white_brian - 08-29-2019
I thought the preserved section was facing Jack Astor's (or whichever bar it is now)
RE: Fairview Park Mall - Grand Market District - white_brian - 08-29-2019
RE: Fairview Park Mall - Grand Market District - robdrimmie - 08-30-2019
I don't know what the plans say, but when I drove past on Monday or Tuesday night, this (the wall closest to the line, not the part of the parking lot where the line is) was where the facade was still:
RE: Fairview Park Mall - Grand Market District - robdrimmie - 08-30-2019
Showing it on the render from the first post in the thread. I think it might be the same as in the picture you posted, and it will definitely be less visible from the highway and while driving past on fairway than I had realized.
RE: Fairview Park Mall - Grand Market District - Coke6pk - 08-30-2019
Is it up still near Jack Astors / PiCO? Its possible they just haven't ripped down the Expressway side yet.
Coke
RE: Fairview Park Mall - Grand Market District - ZEBuilder - 08-30-2019
(08-30-2019, 09:54 AM)Coke6pk Wrote: Is it up still near Jack Astors / PiCO? Its possible they just haven't ripped down the Expressway side yet.
Coke
that side is all gone i have a picture put it refuses to upload so i'll attempt to get another.
RE: Fairview Park Mall - Grand Market District - Coke6pk - 08-30-2019
I wonder how they will make that fit into the faux-factory plans they have.
coke