OFFICIAL: Tesla building

[KCPowercat]

Today's business journal has a story about a proposal from Gaylord investors (who own the P&L building) to build a 15 story structure to west of the P&L building.  This building won't start until an anchor tenant is found.

The interesting thing about this proposal is the roof.  The proposal decribes the roof as going through 3 phases.  First phase would steam up like a storm cloud.  The 2nd phase would use tesla coils powered through solar panels and lightening would actually strke at times in the night.  The 3rd phase would glow gold.

Sounds very cool and the renderings look cool as well. 

As far as tenants, nobody has really been targeted, the article stats.

[scooterj]

Do you mean west of the P&L?

[im2kull]

Is there a link to this story anywhere online?

[chrizow]

Gayload? 

this project sounds really cool though.  it sounds like the P+L district is already affecting surrounding areas.

[KCN]

Sounds very cool and the renderings look cool as well.

Are these online?  I couldn't find anything about this on the star website.

[GRID]

They story also says they want to start on a 18 story condo tower north of "Telsa" in the third quarter of this year.

[scooterj]

It just figures that now that there's something in the Business Journal that I want to read, our office's copy for some reason has not shown up.

[scooterj]

Speak of the devil, it just showed up.   Wow.   Fascinating idea that could be really cool if done well.   They said it would be loud and would fire only at certain times of night like a clock tower.   I wonder what the guests at the Raddison will think, or the residents of the Clubhouse or the new condo tower?   Hopefully they don't plan on firing it frequently or all night.   Maybe just once a night, an event that gets people crowding outside nightly to get people waiting for the lightning show.

The exiting P&L would be rechristened as The Edison Building, the new building would be the Tesla Building.  No name for the building in the north lot was mentioned.

The article makes it seem unlikely to actually get built unless a big company steps up and wants the space, due to there being so much available leasable space already for half the cost.  They said they will only build if they get a commitment for 150,000 square feet.   But it says that no matter what happens, they expect to be building on that lot (it is the west lot) within 2-3 years even if what is built as a hotel or condo.  It says they've been approached several times by condo and hotel developers interested in that lot.

As for the north lot building, that pretty much seems a go.   An L-shaped 18 story residential building concealing an 11-story garage in the center of the block, with Cordish-run retail on the street level of the building.   The article says construction is expected to begin this fall... the only remaining hurdle being the purchase of the Old Republic building.

[chrizow]

i say they go after the Lathrop + Gage law firm.  i read a while back that they were considering new digs for their firm since Blackwell and Shook built shiny new ugly boxes of their own.  i dont know if they are still looking though.

[staubio]

That would explain why the newest renderings for P&L have additional retail spots shown on Baltimore and Wyandotte... more getting into the game.

[dangerboy]

The Biz Journal is published on Friday, but the stories don't to online until Monday.  The only they posted before then are the daily breaking stories.

[chrizow]

someone scan that mofo so we out-of-towners can enjoy. 

[KCPowercat]

That would explain why the newest renderings for P&L have additional retail spots shown on Baltimore and Wyandotte... more getting into the game.

Yeah the 18 story structure is going north of the current P&L building the article states (I think).....there has always been pretty solid plans about retail on both sides of Baltimore...even the cordish model already has that piece to it and they heavily promote it as a Soho type area

[Thrillcekr]

I'd like to see a picture of this.  I'm having a hard time picturing what that would look like in my mind.

[Tosspot]

Pardon my one-track mind, but does this mean that blasted surface lot on the west side of the Power and Light art-deco skyscraper will be filled in, or am I way off base here?

[scooterj]

Pardon my one-track mind, but does this mean that blasted surface lot on the west side of the Power and Light art-deco skyscraper will be filled in, or am I way off base here?

Si.

[Denver Josh]

Wait, hold on  :?

This proposed building would have a cloud thing and some coils that would emerge out of the roof on cue so lightning would strike on demand.  

I gonna need to see a picture of this thing

[ComandanteCero]

This sounds like the kind of project that calls for a starchitect  :D  Someone who can come up with a great design that complements the location, context and Tesla coil concept.  

[scooterj]

Actually the illustration in the Business Journal is just another angle of this building:



In frame 1 they show the roof glowing a dim blue with the mist gathering.  In frame 2, the roof goees dark and a web of lightning shoots in all directions.  In frame 3 the roof turns bright orange.  The coils are visible on the roof and lit up by the orange lights.

[Tosspot]

Thanks for posting that Scooter. Hopefully some more detailed renderings will come forth when and if this project is finalized. I'd really be interested in the ground-level aspect of this project.

This almost makes me wax sentimental...the forlorn Power & Light building finally gets it's long sought after companion, albeit seventy years late.