Clarendon Construction - June 2010, part 1

I stopped by the Arlington office this week on an errand and took a moment to check on the progress on the two main building projects.  There is a third, although I haven't posted anything on it yet - it is a controversial topic in Arlington and I can't say that I really appreciate it either...that will be the topic of a "Part 2" post next week.

Here are the two main buildings that we have been watching go up across the street.  Now it is pretty clear that the building on the left will be residential and the one on the right will be office - at least I think so.  The fenestration leads me to this hypothesis.

Still have some exterior finishing going on up on the office building penthouse, and the grounds have to be redone.  Traffic is almost returned to normal over there on that side of the block, and I am sure that loads of work continues inside.

On the second building, the masonry is in progress and they have already gotten up a couple of storeys.  The detail isn't clear in this photo, but the purpose of the little wooden structure on the right side of the building is clear now, there is a lot of masonry mortar cast offs that cover the plywood sheets, which keep the material off of the Hard Times equipment.

Still a couple of months of exterior work to go here.

Next week I will post a follow-up with a look at a new building getting underway in this area.  It uses a smart growth new urbanism concept...even though I generally appreciate these approaches to dense development, I am not sold on this one for a couple of reasons.  More on that later.