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3rd floor

Latitude 45 7-4-14 by bapster2006, on Flickr

Standing on the fifth floor.

Latitude 45 7-24-14 by bapster2006, on Flickr

I noticed today that they are now working on the sixth floor of the building. Something that I was surprised about was that I thought the building would be a C shape for the tower. But if the east end stays open like it is going up it will be more of an L shape for the tower floors.

Website up : http://l45living.com/

Man, I'm so jealous of stock photo people with their stock photo pets and happy hours and perfect lives.

Man, I'm so jealous of stock photo people with their stock photo pets and happy hours and perfect lives.

No one works, gets old , or dies...

Latitude 45 8-21-14 by bapster2006, on Flickr

Walking thru the skyway, I have yet to figure out how or where they plan on connecting the skyway to this project. There is quite a deviation between the skyway and the next nearest floor for an easy connection.

9th floor

Latitude45 9-5-14 by bapster2006, on Flickr

11th floor

Latitude 45 10-7-14 by bapster2006, on Flickr

Cool! Though I wish this thing were broken into at least 2 separate buildings instead of 1 giant wall (preferably with different developers and heights/materials), but at 13 floors walled buildings like these can actually look fairly elegant at times (I'm thinking of a building like the Parliament, for example). Any taller and it would just be another RiverWest Condos.

Cool! Though I wish this thing were broken into at least 2 separate buildings instead of 1 giant wall (preferably with different developers and heights/materials), but at 13 floors walled buildings like these can actually look fairly elegant at times (I'm thinking of a building like the Parliament, for example). Any taller and it would just be another RiverWest Condos.

I don't know if that's a fair comparison. This location is not nearly as bad a place for giant wall as Riverwest's. And the bigger problem with Riverwest is that it's basically a fortress. L45 is going to have street level retail, and meet the street in a much, much friendlier way.

I don't know if that's a fair comparison. This location is not nearly as bad a place for giant wall as Riverwest's. And the bigger problem with Riverwest is that it's basically a fortress. L45 is going to have street level retail, and meet the street in a much, much friendlier way.

Agreed. RiverWest, this is not. It's a much better project.

I have some friends in RiverWest who have an amazing condo, but I really wish accessing it was easier from the Second Street side (I know it doesn't actually touch Second Street). Having to walk around several block faces just to get to the entry is incredibly annoying. The way the garage is structured is really strange, so that will probably prevent anything like it happening, but it would be great if they could add entrances on a few more sides.

I think this is going to be a nice project, my only quibble is that I wish the street level was just a little bit (~4-5' maybe?) taller. I think buildings with 1.5 or 2 story street levels look and feel friendlier from the street.

I don't know if that's a fair comparison. This location is not nearly as bad a place for giant wall as Riverwest's. And the bigger problem with Riverwest is that it's basically a fortress. L45 is going to have street level retail, and meet the street in a much, much friendlier way.

Agreed. RiverWest, this is not. It's a much better project.

I have some friends in RiverWest who have an amazing condo, but I really wish accessing it was easier from the Second Street side (I know it doesn't actually touch Second Street). Having to walk around several block faces just to get to the entry is incredibly annoying. The way the garage is structured is really strange, so that will probably prevent anything like it happening, but it would be great if they could add entrances on a few more sides.

I feel you, but I know people that live in there too and you don't have to go around the block, we always cut through the parking lot from 2nd and there's a door by the dog park thing and you can actually continue on around the building to get to the front.

I feel you, but I know people that live in there too and you don't have to go around the block, we always cut through the parking lot from 2nd and there's a door by the dog park thing and you can actually continue on around the building to get to the front.

I was actually unaware of this (though I had wondered if such a route was possible). I wonder with the new development that will be coming in how that will affect things. I do know that apparently RiverWest threw a fit about the parking lots being built up.

Probably shouldn't lead this thread too astray though.

I don't know if that's a fair comparison. This location is not nearly as bad a place for giant wall as Riverwest's. And the bigger problem with Riverwest is that it's basically a fortress. L45 is going to have street level retail, and meet the street in a much, much friendlier way.

Agreed. RiverWest, this is not. It's a much better project.

I have some friends in RiverWest who have an amazing condo, but I really wish accessing it was easier from the Second Street side (I know it doesn't actually touch Second Street). Having to walk around several block faces just to get to the entry is incredibly annoying. The way the garage is structured is really strange, so that will probably prevent anything like it happening, but it would be great if they could add entrances on a few more sides.

If this were 20-something floors it would have a similar (key word, but not identical) effect as RiverWest, IMO (of course). As in, it would be a block-long wall that blocks views -- the primary difference being this is a block or so further from the river, there's ground-level retail, and it's shorter.

Is that more accurate? I just am not a big fan of gigantic monolithic buildings that take up large chunks of land. I'd rather see a dozen smaller projects than one large one 99% of the time. That's the gist of what I was trying to convey. That, and the fact that this building does block-long monolithic walls quite well (per the comment about elegant buildings like the Parliament).

Sometimes it's easy to have a knee-jerk reaction to the negative piece of a comment but overall I'm very positive about this project!

If you look at the renderings , Latitude will have the appearance (or illusion) of being three separate buildings. Plus the street level is fairly nicely designed keeping in mind the pedestrian.

I think it's great. It's going to be very cool driving down Washington Ave from N 10th ave through downtown east in a few years as more buildings go up. Might just be the hyper urbanite in me, but there is nothing like a canyon of buildings on wide avenues.