Yes, even the Christmas lights have to come off the tower cranes once they’re taken down. After eleven months on the job, the tower crane for 4730 California is being dismantled today. We arrived in The Junction just in time to see its jib brought down – from California/Edmunds, you could see it had been harnessed:
What goes up, must come down … @4730ca crane, 11 months later. pic.twitter.com/JI7B6vKadO
— West Seattle Blog (@westseattleblog) August 16, 2014
Then it was lowered to the street:
Looking south down California, that made for an interesting pattern:
And the entire operation, as was the case when it went up last September, held a fascination for onlookers, especially some of the smaller ones:
4730 California is expected to open by year’s end, with three retail spaces, 88 apartments and 71 offstreet-parking spaces, according to its commercial-leasing flyer. We haven’t heard of any tenant signings yet.
SIDE NOTE: This will leave The Junction with “only” two cranes for now, at the Equity Residential two-building California/Alaska/42nd project and Spruce (formerly “The Hole”) at 39th/Alaska/Fauntleroy, but two more will arrive before long, with demolition over and site prep under way at 40th/Edmunds and 35th/Avalon.
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