West End / Central Park West Development - St. Louis Park

[bapster2006]

On that note, Olive Garden is closed.

[Nick]

Damn really? I thought that was next month. Wanted to go one last time.

[Ubermoose]

I believe they have relocated to 394 and Hopkins Crossroad.

[colink]

Yes, they built a new building.

[talindsay]

Damn really? I thought that was next month. Wanted to go one last time.

Guess you'll have to microwave your own pasta sauce.

[colink]

So it looks like the framing of the Spec office building in West End is up to about the 6th floor but I don't see anything that looks like an elevator core. Is this common? It seems that usually the elevator bank rises with the building. Just curious.

[MNdible]

In most taller buildings, a cast-in-place concrete elevator core is part of the lateral bracing that prevents the building from tipping over in a stiff breeze. But the steel framing of the building can do the same thing by introducing floor-to-floor diagonal bracing, or by other more complicated structural trickery.