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LINKED 70-STORY TOWERS FOR MELBOURNE’S CBD
SP Setia hopes to build a pair of 70-story, 254-m-tall towers linked by a curving skybridge at 308 Exhibition Street in the central business district (CBD) of Melbourne, Australia, Urban Melbourne reports. Designed by Cox Architecture and Fender Katsalidis, one tower would house a 500-plus-room hotel and the other more than 500 residences, both atop a "green" podium. Public and private amenities and a relatively small amount of retail would be on the lower levels. The project's most striking feature, the skybridge, would be at levels 49 and 50.
KONE ACQUIRES DOWNEY GOODLEIN
KONE recently acquired the service and repair business of Downey Goodlein Elevator Corp. of Rochester, New York. Downey Goodlein has operated throughout the Rochester metropolitan area since 1965. KONE stated the acquisition brings it into a new market and "provides the talent and experience to expand the service, modernization and new installation business in upstate New York.”
1 MANHATTAN WEST’S UNIQUE PEDESTAL TAKING SHAPE
Construction on the podium at 1 Manhattan West in Manhattan, New York, was described by The New York Times as "a mammoth steel structure, as long as a city block, that seems to float 51-1/2 ft. over the ground at Ninth Avenue and 33rd Street." The 1.2-million-cu.-ft. structure will "balance" a 995-ft.-tall building, extending 42 ft. beyond its core to the north and south. The south overhang will suspend the tower over three parallel Long Island Rail Road tracks, with the north overhang acting as a counterbalance. The tower is to have 67 occupied floors. Priced at US$1 billion, its construction is to be completed in 2019.
IN MEMORIAM: WALTER W. BRONSON
Walter W. "Wally" Bronson recently passed away at the age of 89 in Chicago. An owner at E&W Elevator in Chicago, Bronson was also a World War II veteran of the U.S. Navy. Member and former chairman of the board of the International Union of Elevator Constructors Local #2, he was also involved with the National Elevator Industry Educational Program. He is survived by wife, Susan; brothers, Jim and Perry; children, Walter, Peter, Mary Gogliotti, Therese Yaeger, Patricia Partipilo, Rita Wilmes, Kathleen Doyle, Clare DeVries, Julia Quinn, Monica Bennett, Michael, Daniel and Joseph; stepchildren, Christine Swenson, Constance Mazzetta and Carrie Weber; 34 grandchildren; nine step-grandchildren; and 25 great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, memorials in Bronson's memory are requested to be made to the donator's favorite charity.
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