Comments | fansee: Thursday, 3 December 2020: Another (Yikes!) Construction Project

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Thursday, 3 December 2020: Another (Yikes!) Construction Project

Dec 03, 2020 23:19

Remember the statue that my apartment complex is sponsoring? (If not, click HERE.) It will be situated on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, eight floors below my apartment's window. I have an excellent bird's eye view of the project ( Read more... )

december, 2020, maja, construction

Comments 6

spiffikins December 4 2020, 20:32:23 UTC

How exciting to have all this activity right outside your windows :D

A water feature would be fun! I wonder if they will also use the pipes to run electrical for lighting? I don't know how big the conduit is that they use for underground electrical wiring?

fansee December 9 2020, 01:56:16 UTC

I do have a ringside seat!

I did a little on line research, and they said most water features use PVC piping which would be the smaller. shiny pipes. I couldn't find any uses for the big pipes which look like...to my uninformed eye...like cement. My guess, if they are cement, is that they'd be used as protection for a bunch of wires, pipes, etc.

Short version: I haven't got a clue.

lindahoyland December 5 2020, 12:57:58 UTC

I hope it looks good when it is finished. You have plenty to see out of your window.

fansee December 9 2020, 01:59:35 UTC

There IS a lot going on right now. My complex was completed in 1959, and for years, had I lived here, I'd have had only one, maybe two, other apartment houses within view. Now...new buildings keep popping up like mushrooms. The area is suddenly A Thing. FanSee

rhiannonhero December 5 2020, 17:29:24 UTC

So many new buildings!

fansee December 9 2020, 02:05:58 UTC

In the next-to-last picture, the only building that may be as old or older than my complex is the big, big red brick building. All the rest are post 1959, the year when Park Towne Place was completed.

This neighborhood has provided a steady flow of jobs for the building trades and continues to do so. FanSee