Next door to 1709 Chestnut, 16 Chestnut, a 19-story office tower, is starting to also peek out of the ground! This project will be the second office building for DaVita, with their world headquarters across the street.
Looking down into the hole, we can clearly see that the two elevator cores are starting to rise out of the ground. Two blue concrete pump masts have been installed at each end of the site so it is assumed the structure material will be concrete.
The east side of Chestnut Place through the Union Station neighborhood is almost completely developed. Now, the west side has two very large projects going up along it. This is going to be a very dense street in the next couple of years!
If there weren’t height limits in the neighborhood would davita have built one tall skyscraper rather than 2 shorter buildings or would cost have been prohibitive?