Going, going, gone. Last week, the structures over the Union Station passenger tunnel were demolished. Here are a couple of photos of the process. By now, all of the debris has been cleaned up and hauled away.
To give you a sense to the extent of backfilling so far, here are two photos taken of the dirt pile on the 16th Street side of the bus terminal. I took the first one on September 7, 2010, and the second on April 15, 2011, both from the same spot on the Millennium Bridge. Also, the other huge pile of dirt on the 17th Street side is virtually gone. It won’t be long that a casual observer would not know that there is a bus terminal down there.
I took the following photo late in the afternoon today. I intended to crop it to focus on the final beams being installed in the bus terminal roof. However, once I took a close look at it, I decided to leave it alone since it turned out to be a good shot of the overall construction site. In addition to the beams, be sure to notice the completed entrance/exit ramp, the skylights, and the progress on building Chestnut Place over the center of the roof. Also, notice the degree of backfilling all around the site.
Please see our Denver Union Station page at JobSiteVistor.com for 27 more photos that I posted last week, plus the one above so far this week.
