Cranes of A2

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[Cranes of A2 @a2cranewatch]

I do believe this brings the Ann Arbor tower crane count to 6!
1) New hospital tower
2) 616 E. Washington
3) Vic Village South
4) New pharmacy school building
5) Vanguard Hotel (fka The Glen)

6) 721 S. Forest!

[Cranes of A2 @a2cranewatch]

I noticed this tower crane being put up at 721 S. Forest the other day — went back to check on it. Tower crane is fully assembled and functional. A significant amount of foundation has been poured, if not all. Great progress on a great neighborhood addition.

[Cranes of A2 @a2cranewatch]

8) 721 Forest St

Subtext's "The Verve," a 12 story residential tower is under construction. A crawler crane and a self erecting crane are on site in order to drive piles to build the foundation.

[Cranes of A2 @a2cranewatch]

9) New Gallup Park Bridge

The old wooden bridge at Gallup Park is being replaced. There is a crawler crane on sight for the project.

[Cranes of A2 @a2cranewatch]

8) 721 Forest St

Subtext's "The Verve," a 12 story residential tower is under construction. A crawler crane and a self erecting crane are on site in order to drive piles to build the foundation.

[Cranes of A2 @a2cranewatch]

7) New Leinweber Information building

They have multiple cranes on site, but notably no luffing-jib cranes. They only have a much larger crawler crane in front.

[Cranes of A2 @a2cranewatch]

I'm on permanent Twitter leave, at least on my main account, so I've been neglecting this. Let's do a quick rundown of all standing cranes in Ann Arbor that I've personally seen, plus renderings of what they're building.

1) the new Central Campus Recreational Building.

[Cranes of A2 @a2cranewatch]

6) New Ginsberg Center building

Their new building is underway, with one all terrain crane. The foundation is poured and they are going vertical.

[Cranes of A2 @a2cranewatch]

5) New Kerrytown condominiums

One small crane is helping to construct the new Kerrytown condominiums behind Detroit St Filling Station.

[Cranes of A2 @a2cranewatch]

4) Vanguard Hotel (fka The Glen)

This hotel is going to be a Marriott Autograph Collection hotel (https://t.co/pp38L8w5H5). I don't have any good photos of construction. They also have a one luffing-jib crane, which you can see in the background of the pharmacy school photo

[Cranes of A2 @a2cranewatch]

3) New Pharmacy School building

The stair cores are complete, and the steel framing is now going vertical. There is a luffing-jib crane and an all-terrain crane.

[Cranes of A2 @a2cranewatch]

I found the floor by floor construction interesting — most other high rises being built in Ann Arbor today build the stair cores first, then build around them. This building has not. This may be because they are just now finishing the parking garage floors. I'll check back later

[Cranes of A2 @a2cranewatch]

2) 616 E. Washington. This building was approved all the way back in 2019. I covered it when it construction had just started, and now they're vertical. The second building behind it is fully complete. The crane isn't fully in my most recent shot.

[Cranes of A2 @a2cranewatch]

There are two crawler cranes. They've topped out the building height, and are finishing the roof. There's a lot of interesting steel work, with some cool bent beams inside. There's also a full-size pool in there somewhere.

[Cranes of A2 @a2cranewatch]

@sstrudeau Hmmm, not sure I’ll be in town to report live from the ground. Will shop around to see if I can find out what work is being done!

[Cranes of A2 @a2cranewatch]

Notice the two dudes standing on the jib of the tower crane! Pretty intense. They’re working on removing cables so they can take off the weights

[Cranes of A2 @a2cranewatch]

I’m back at the site of Vic Village South, trying to see what’s up with the new crane. I asked a worker from Erickson’s what’s going on- they’re going to remove part of the jib of the tower crane to make it stronger, then put it right back. #A2Cranes

[Cranes of A2 @a2cranewatch]

#A2cranes 2 relatively recent cranes up at the Vic Village South site. A Rough Terrain crane and an All Terrain crane have joined the already standing luffing-jib tower crane.

[Cranes of A2 @a2cranewatch]

#A2cranes 2 relatively recent cranes up at the Vic Village South site. A Rough Terrain crane and an All Terrain crane have joined the already standing luffing-jib tower crane.

[Cranes of A2 @a2cranewatch]

#A2cranes Crane today spotted by the First National Bank Building, now occupied by the Old National Bank. First Martin owns the building, so I asked some employees I saw outside what was going on. They said it was AT&T antenna work. The crane was gone by 3 PM

[Cranes of A2 @a2cranewatch]

Upcoming weird developments with PUD/rezoning:

- 721 S Forest: 631 beds
- Southtown by 4M: 250 units
- 5 Corners @ State/Packard: 364 units

Kinda wondering where these developments will go. 721 S Forest and 5 Corners already did their pre-PUD conference.