The Station on Washington - (630 Washington Avenue SE)

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Re: The Station on Washington - (630 Washington Avenue SE)

Postby Silophant » February 3rd, 2013, 12:26 pm

Mini. It appears to be the same model, if not the exact same crane, as was used for Stadium Village Flats last year.
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Re: The Station on Washington - (630 Washington Avenue SE)

Postby Nick » February 3rd, 2013, 5:22 pm

The crane is riiiiight up against the Fairview ramp. I wanted to jump onto it.
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Re: The Station on Washington - (630 Washington Avenue SE)

Postby mulad » February 3rd, 2013, 5:53 pm

Tight fit for those counterweights!

Thanks for all the photos, Nick.

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Re: The Station on Washington - (630 Washington Avenue SE)

Postby trkaiser » February 9th, 2013, 3:36 pm

I took a few more of this today. Not quite Nick's excellent bird's-eye view. Washington looks a lot more intense with the big electrical poles that have gone up.

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Re: The Station on Washington - (630 Washington Avenue SE)

Postby Le Sueur » February 11th, 2013, 5:12 pm

This place has really made progress in just 3 months! Thanks for the pics Nick.

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Re: The Station on Washington - (630 Washington Avenue SE)

Postby ajohnson02011 » March 5th, 2013, 5:06 pm

The two retail spaces were announced today. Walgreen's (ugh) will take up 7,000 square feet on the first floor and Haiku Sushi will occupy the remaining 4,000 sqf on the first floor. The Walgreen's will be half the size of CVS down the road and truthfully I've never seen a Walgreen's that is this small. This will be quite interesting to see when it opens in August.

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Re: The Station on Washington - (630 Washington Avenue SE)

Postby Silophant » March 5th, 2013, 5:54 pm

That's too bad. I had already had doubts about the long-term viability of the U of M Market that moved into the old Village Pizza space, but.. I don't really have doubts anymore. Given that I've never seen more than one person in there at any given time, I can't see how they'll survive adjacent to a Walgreen's. It's kinda surprising that Walgreen's would open a store just 2.5 blocks from a much bigger CVS, but I guess they'll be able to grab all the convenience store business from the hotel and the medical area, so they'll probably do alright.
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Re: The Station on Washington - (630 Washington Avenue SE)

Postby seanrichardryan » March 5th, 2013, 9:30 pm

Could be just a walgreens pharmacy, no retail/ photo/ makeup/ redbox. They tend to position those in or adjacent to medical facilities. There is one in Uptown next to Allina at 1221 w Lake.
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Re: The Station on Washington - (630 Washington Avenue SE)

Postby Nick » March 16th, 2013, 4:49 pm

This really flew up.

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Re: The Station on Washington - (630 Washington Avenue SE)

Postby Tom H. » April 9th, 2013, 8:43 am

This has topped out. Windows are going in, and bricklayers were working on the west face of the building yesterday - they had brick up to about the 3rd floor. I'm liking the look of this building more and more as it fleshes out.

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Re: The Station on Washington - (630 Washington Avenue SE)

Postby Nathan » April 9th, 2013, 11:09 am

Awesome, its always exciting when they start getting their skin! Pictures someone! I don't get over there enough :/

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Re: The Station on Washington - (630 Washington Avenue SE)

Postby Silophant » April 25th, 2013, 10:16 pm

Here you go. I think this will be the best looking of the three new buildings on Washington, though I think the Sally's building will be better still.
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Re: The Station on Washington - (630 Washington Avenue SE)

Postby Nathan » April 26th, 2013, 2:03 pm

Thanks!

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Re: The Station on Washington - (630 Washington Avenue SE)

Postby FISHMANPET » May 8th, 2013, 10:39 am

Here have some more brick porn:
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Re: The Station on Washington - (630 Washington Avenue SE)

Postby Nathan » May 8th, 2013, 11:17 am

Nice pics, the middle one definitely demonstrates how incorporated and solid windows look when they are encased in full brick rather than flush with a thin brick veneer.

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Re: The Station on Washington - (630 Washington Avenue SE)

Postby seanrichardryan » May 8th, 2013, 1:09 pm

Opus does some of the best work of this stick-building boom.
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Re: The Station on Washington - (630 Washington Avenue SE)

Postby West Coast » May 28th, 2013, 9:00 pm

5-27-2013 Construction Photos

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Re: The Station on Washington - (630 Washington Avenue SE)

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Re: The Station on Washington - (630 Washington Avenue SE)

Postby TheUrbanGopher » July 12th, 2013, 9:36 am

Signage on the Walgreen's is up. It is being advertised as a "W-corner" or something. Perhaps a scaled back version of the full store?

Also, I couldn't help but notice the big slap-in-the-face that Walgreen's is doing unintentionally with their sign: A red background with a white "W" in the center. Anybody else think this too closely resembles another unnamed Big Ten school logo?

(Should have called it Malgreen's.)

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Re: The Station on Washington - (630 Washington Avenue SE)

Postby FISHMANPET » July 12th, 2013, 9:43 am

I'm guessing Walgreen's in Minnesota can't sell liquor, but otherwise Walgreen's is making some pretty awesome urban stores.
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