Friday, April 14, 2023

Library Lofts: on time despite appearances

Library Lofts is two buildings in one — a nine-story apartment building
atop a two-story library, each with separate owners. The complicated coor-
dination between owners is one of the apparent causes of the slow pace of
construction. This photo was taken on April 9, 2023. Compare it with the
 photo below from more than six months ago on Sept. 30, 2022 (Gruver).
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Last September, construction crews in Cleveland’s University Circle appeared to be close to topping off a cast-in-place concrete podium within which a new, two-story Martin Luther King Jr. Branch Library will be built and, on top of that a nine-story apartment building will rise. In the six and a half months since, one full story has been added to the podium. And, according to the project’s development team, you won’t see new stories added above it until mid-summer. By just about anyone’s book, that’s a long time getting through a story.

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