Glass Is Currently Being Put On The 717 Luxury Condo Tower As Construction Continues
Monday, 2. June 2008, 15:25:38
Facts on the 717 Ninth Tower
Location: 9th Street and Flower Street
Function: Mixed-Use | 214 Units | 6,800 SF Retail
Developer: Meruelo Maddux Properties
Architect: Mambo Architecture
Completion: 2009
717 Ninth Tower will have 35 stories. A glass curtain resembling a wall of water will clothe the high-rise. The first few floors have been framed and much of the parking structure has been completed at the two-thirds-of-an-acre site adjacent to the Ralphs supermarket. Plans call for the tower at Ninth and Flower streets to contain 214 units and a 6,800-square-foot ground-floor seafood eatery. Mambo Architecture is designing the $120 million effort. Completion is slated for mid-2009.
Curbed's thread provided this October 1, 2007 artist's rendition of what the structure once completed will look like and commented that at that time it was three levels up on the parking garage.
Wikimapia shows the high rise residential tower is located across the street from Market Lofts which anchors the first grocery store , Ralphs, in Downtown Los Angles in over 50 years. Also, across it is the Concerto development.
Current Construction Report
Eric Richardson provides photos as of May 26, 2008, showing that glass is now being put on some of the lower levels of this residential tower boondoogle.
Location: 9th Street and Flower Street
Function: Mixed-Use | 214 Units | 6,800 SF Retail
Developer: Meruelo Maddux Properties
Architect: Mambo Architecture
Completion: 2009
717 Ninth Tower will have 35 stories. A glass curtain resembling a wall of water will clothe the high-rise. The first few floors have been framed and much of the parking structure has been completed at the two-thirds-of-an-acre site adjacent to the Ralphs supermarket. Plans call for the tower at Ninth and Flower streets to contain 214 units and a 6,800-square-foot ground-floor seafood eatery. Mambo Architecture is designing the $120 million effort. Completion is slated for mid-2009.
Curbed's thread provided this October 1, 2007 artist's rendition of what the structure once completed will look like and commented that at that time it was three levels up on the parking garage.
Wikimapia shows the high rise residential tower is located across the street from Market Lofts which anchors the first grocery store , Ralphs, in Downtown Los Angles in over 50 years. Also, across it is the Concerto development.
Current Construction Report
Eric Richardson provides photos as of May 26, 2008, showing that glass is now being put on some of the lower levels of this residential tower boondoogle.
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