project-update 20158

In early September, project partners broke ground on Elm Street Plaza, the next step in the collective $700 million reimagined Convention District. The project will transform the 500-block of Elm Street, now permanently closed to vehicular traffic, and the long-vacant site of the former Millennium Hotel into a two-acre flexible outdoor venue with a balance of paved event space and vegetated landscape to provide cooling, shade, and comfort, as well as pedestrian connection to the convention center’s first-floor exhibit halls. Since breaking ground, crews have made steady progress on demolition and undercutting of the site. This work includes removing the Millennium Hotel’s structural remnants that were buried during its demolition.

As exterior demolition work on the convention center’s Fifth Street facade is nearing completion, the construction team is now starting work on the Elm Street façade, which will progress north toward Sixth Street. Crews are working through the day, night, and weekends to continue carefully removing the Albee Arch from the building’s façade and transporting the structure’s pieces to a city-owned storage site. Crews are continuing the demolition of the building’s interior, including architectural, mechanical, electrical, and plumping. Stay in the know with everything happening in the Convention District by subscribing to receive biweekly construction updates.