Greetings Vertical Junkies!!
We have an update regarding the beautiful and inpressive mixed use project known as Sullivan Square. For those whoa re unfamialiar with this project it is at Durango and Sunset in the Southwest of Las Vegas, Nv. Well positioned right next to the I-215 freeway which allows hign speed access to the Strip and Green Valley as well as those that like to play on the West Side as well!!
They have broken ground and started blasting on Tuesday to make way for the underground 100 car garage. Of course it will be a lengthy process as the all too irritating caliche has to be blasted through inorder to proceed with digging.
Hubble Smith of the Review Journal had this to say:
Drilling and blasting will start Tuesday at the 16-acre Sullivan Square development site near the Las Vegas Beltway and Durango Drive, an executive for the general contractor said.
Two drilling rigs were placed on the site to drill 40 blast holes a day on a 6-foot-by-6-foot grid pattern, UPA Group senior vice president Steven Parker said. The first blast of 100 holes will use 4,765 pounds of dynamite, he said.
The blasting begins site preparation work for Sullivan Square, an $800 million mixed-use project by Glen, Smith & Glen Development combining residential, business and retail space.
During the next few months, 15 separate blasts will enable the excavation of dirt and caliche to depths of 30 feet for building foundations and the underground parking garage. A portable rock crusher will be moved on site to process up to 4,000 cubic yards of dirt a day.
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