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 seicer
     
Location: New York
Gender: Male
 |  |  | Lexington, Ky. from the rooftops
< on 11/9/2007 3:17 AM >
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You can find my newest downtown photos at my web-site, UrbanUp, here.
1. Central Business District, looking west towards Lexington Financial Center.
2. A view of the northern Lexington region. The street running northeast is Limestone and has seen an uptick in building restorations and investments.
3. Looking towards the Vine Street corridor, which consists primarily of newer office structures. This was formerly the Chesapeake and Ohio rail line, which were removed in the late 1960s. Hundreds of structures that would have been adaptable to lofts today were demolished, and has been called the city's "biggest regret."
4. Central Business District.
5. Old Fayette National Bank Building. Was the city's tallest for many, many years.
6. A void created by the demolition of Woolworth's. The store closed in the mid 1990s after being restored in the early 1990s (...), and was demolished ~2003. The lot (and the bottom right corner store and attachments) are owned by The Webb Cos., the city's largest developer (they developed the Lexington Financial Center). Most of the remaining buildings are vacant and are not that historical, and will most likely be demolished in a few years for a new development project.
7. Our Courthouse complex takes up two blocks and has a nice plaza with water features.
8. Rupp Arena/Lexington Center. The massive parking lot to the south now qualifies for TIF so it stands to be redeveloped.
9. My downtown, looking east, from my apartment complex. It is one of the tallest buildings in the city 
Many more photos coming later this week! Stay tuned to this thread!
[last edit 11/9/2007 9:16 PM by Mutt - edited 2 times]
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seicer
Location: New York
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Lexington, Ky. from the rooftops
<Reply # 1 on 11/9/2007 3:18 AM >
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Links provided go to the building or district at UrbanUp.
1. National City Bank taken from the Lexington Downtown Corporation roof.
2. Main and Rose Lofts, taken from the roof of the Lexington Downtown Corporation. I will gather more photos in the evening that will better represent the width of the structure. This was originally planned for seven stories but was constructed as four -- but it's enormous size is still a tremendous asset. Crews have completed most of the work on the building -- including the city's first "back in" parking spaces. I assume those are for those who want to load groceries from a planned urban corner market.
I personally love the industrial design of the building. They did this very well and it resembles the building stock that once existed along Vine Street.
3. And to think, Main and Rose was once a giant surface parking lot.
4. Christ Church Apartments for the elderly. This is where I voted
5. The modern front to the Lexington Center. This was recently rehabilitated from a 1970s glass-box design to one that is more harmonious to the streetscape. The big box in the back is Rupp Arena, which could be replaced by 2012. It was not renovated with the Lexington Center project and it is showing its age.
6. The old front was HIDEOUS.
7. Hyatt, which is undergoing interior renovations.
8. Victorian Square, which has fine dining, shops and art galleries under one roof. It is a series of restored Victorian-esque structures combined into one.
9. The Kincaid Towers is a 22-floor high-rise in Lexington, Kentucky. It is located along Vine Street between Broadway and Mill Street. Its exterior is polished buff concrete with blue tinted glass, with terraces on the 5th, 10th, 14th, and 21st floor.
10. Phase one of the 500's on the Main project, adjacent to Victorian Square and the Lexington Center.
11. The spire and additional buildings will be constructed soon in phase two.
12. Ah... where I live. Downtown Lexington. Looking west along Main Street in downtown Lexington.
13. I f$&king hated getting up to the top of the World Trade Center. Ladders suspended many, many feet above a never-ending staircase. And I'm afraid of heights. One building was a ladder... the other was a staircase. Go figure.
From left to right: Lexington Center, 500's on the Main, and Victorian Square.
14. Looking along South Broadway. The massive parking lot on the right is part of Rupp Arena and it replaced hundreds of homes from the historic South Hill district. It is slated for redevelopment eventually.
15. Looking along Vine Street at the haphazard building styles. Vine Street was once a railroad corridor for the city, and when the tracks were removed, major urban renewal began that removed most of the historic and warehouse-styled buildings that are so very much desired today.
That white stub of a building houses U.S. Attorneys offices. It is a POS and was just a basic steel frame (suburban buildings are built better than this) with a faux "stone" facade that was prefabricated and placed by a crane.
16. Triangle Center is in the foreground and was a planned shopping center.
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More coming next week!
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tholcomb
 
Location: Chattanooga, TN
Gender: Male
Captain Baghead!
| | Re: Lexington, Ky. from the rooftops
<Reply # 2 on 11/9/2007 3:25 AM >
| | | | beautiful.
Next time I go to my mom's building I'm going to press the button in the elevator that says "R" & just see what happens.
I love cities. Sadly, I live in the country.
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seicer
Location: New York
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Lexington, Ky. from the rooftops
<Reply # 3 on 11/9/2007 3:26 AM >
| | | | The doors and access patches in the roof were all alarmed and locked. I asked for permission before going up to the tops of all these buildings and they all agreed. It was actually far easier than I thought.
Same goes with Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio. And to think... people go to great lengths to do this illegally
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tholcomb
Location: Chattanooga, TN
Gender: Male
Captain Baghead!
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<Reply # 4 on 11/9/2007 3:45 AM >
| | | | It's probably easier if you're not 15. lol.
Dammit March, hurry up and get here.
I'm pretty sure things will start getting easier when I get my license.
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