Block 599 (599 Strasburg Rd) | 8 fl | U/C

[ac3r]

Always amazing to see how slow they are.

[KevinL]

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

[KevinL]

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

[mastermind]

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

[ac3r]

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...

[jeffster]

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.

[KevinL]

Topped out, and most windows are in.

[ac3r]

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.

[ZEBuilder]

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.