Friday Construction Photo #14

Steel! Suddenly, there's steel going up! In it's first week on the site, that new yellow crane has been busy hoisting I-beams, giving a vertical dimension to the work. The streets echo with the clank of men bangin' them into position. It's a busy place. In this shot, I count four backhoe type machines; there are mounds of dirt and gravel are still scattered across what was once a pretty smooth work site. It looks like the trenches are full of cement; there are a few underground vaults that appear to be finishing up. This portion of the skyline is going to be changing nearly daily for a while now.

We'll probably soon be losing sight of something and I'd like to take this time to point it out. In the greenspace in the right background of the photo, there's an arc of sidewalk. I'll be posting more about that shortly.

Also, the red and yellow tent in the central background is part of the Iowa Fringe Festival. I'll be talking more about that in an upcoming post as well.