Harbor East construction update
August 19, 2008
On a walk today through Harbor East with H&S Properties Development president Michael Beatty and assistant development manager Christopher Janian, we made time to take a look at the progress over at the Four Seasons / Legg Mason Tower site, which is rising from the ground at a breakneck pace. The above photo montage was put together by Daily Record photographer Rich Dennison using shots he took from the rooftop garage at 720 Aliceanna St., the same building where H&S is based.
Beatty told us that his company is spending $5 million each month, and that 300 excavators are on site working every day. Those numbers, he said, will rise to $20 million and 1,000 as the 1.8 million-square-foot structure continues to grow. It certainly looked busy, with dozens of work crews in fluorescent green vests swarming over the site, hammering at metal, moving rebar and steel and riding around in go-cart-like concrete-smoothing vehicles.
The two phases of the Harbor East expansion, which will include a new headquarters building for money manager Legg Mason and Baltimore’s first five-star hotel, with some pricey luxury condos on top, are expected to be done in 2009 and 2010, respectively.
One interesting thing that Janian mentioned was that the crews are adding one story every eight days to the proposed 24-story Legg tower. He added that the crews stagger the construction of new floors between the north and south sides of the building, so that the concrete is poured for the next story on the southern half of the structure before all the work on the northern half is completed — so the process appears to be going slightly faster than it actually is.
Oh, and that cool, robotic-looking, N-shaped gizmo on top? That’s what pours the concrete into the mold and makes the floor what it is.
ROBBIE WHELAN, Business Writer
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