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I’m a bit confused. I thought there are a lot of older buildings with electric heating that costs a lot per month. This one we’ll be cheaper and more efficient? I’m all for it but I hope the monthly heating cost will be reasonable.
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I only realized this morning that they don't have a crane up on this project yet, it's just a hole and fencing.
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The crane went up yesterday I believe.
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Did it? Maybe my eye missed it, since I was going by in the LRT and only spun around to check.
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They must have poured the whole raft slab on Friday. I walked by today and it was covered in burlap and being watered to keep it cool.
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Can't wait to see how this building looks when it's finished. I don't really like the rectangular massing, but overall the architecture and materials of this building look pretty good. And midtown needs more love.
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I noticed that hole that is reinforced with re-bar. That is the tunnel to link up to the new transit hub, city hall, DTK, the old market square, and Drewlo. The pieces are all coming together now. Excellent.
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It's part of the new K-W PATH system that will run throughout downtown and uptown. It's going to be a bit like the Elon Musk Boring Tunnel project, except ours is going to use these little pods that can hold up to 2 people (or 1 extremely overweight one). It will use new pneumatic technology that UW and Google have been working on that will propel people at about 85 feet per second and will connect people to most new major developments.
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Ignore them, IronDev, they are just being naughty!