Streamline Tower tops out

This luxury condominium project will be the very first residential high-rise in the downtown entertainment district. As you know, the city is heavily promoting anything downtown and the aim is to make the district a local destination spot. Streamline Tower will certainly be a nice addition to that mix.

The 22-story building will include 275 condos with some ground-level retail space, on top of which sits a six-level parking garage and then above that are the residences. They come in one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts.

The intriguing thing about this project is that it's located on a 1-acre piece of land with zero lot lines. That's why the garage is between the street and the condominium units. The lack of staging and storage space presented the developer unique challenges on many fronts during construction. The concrete forms that are used are hand-set instead of the usual flying forms.

The tower crane stands tall in the elevator shafts. The scaffolding setup allows workers and materials go up and down like an elevator. That all is kind of technical but that's what I'm reading.

Despite all these challenges, the project is moving along as scheduled and should be completed in February of 2008.