Ovation Condominiums - St Petersburg, Florida
This looks something like a monument, doesn't it? It's one of 195 foundation supports for the new luxury condominium, Ovation, being developed by JMC Communities and The Sembler Company. Caissons - which can be from 40 ft to 100 ft tall, and 2 feet to 4 feet wide - are vibrated down into the ground hydraulically. This is much more pleasant for the adjacent owners in the Florencia condominium as well as the businesses and tourists in downtown - piledrivers pounding away for months wouldn't be very pleasant.
According to Steve Coppins, the Project Manager, the caissons are vibrated down and then concrete is poured in. Once the concrete has set, the casing is vibrated back up out of the ground.
Ovation will be 27 stories high, with 45 condominium homes, two per floor, and 4 penthouse homes, each a full floor. The ground level will have retail stores, and the tower will be set back from Beach Drive, to keep a comfortable pedestrian feel for passers-by.
This prime location, which once housed John Baldwin's and The Straw Goat, is at the corner of Beach Drive and 2nd Ave N, between BayWalk and The Pier.
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