Building Progress

I still have a few posts to write about my most recent trip to Mexico City.

Each time I return I check out the progress of building projects going on throughout the city.

Just a couple blocks from my apartment, on the other side of Insurgentes Avenue from the World Trade Center, work continues on this building which will house a Hyatt Regency Hotel and luxury condos.  The windows have been put in place almost to the top floor.  I wonder if construction will be complete and the hotel open by the time I return in August.

Downtown, work progresses on the Be Grand Reforma, which will be a mixed used, office and residential tower.  When completed it will be 50 stories and 679 feet high, as tall as the World Trade Center, which, for the moment, is the 6th tallest building in Mexico City.

Along the Paseo de la Reforma, the University Club is an exclusive private club housed in one of the old mansions which used to line that boulevard.

Right behind it, the University Tower, a luxury condo building, is taking shape. When completed, it will be 57 stories and 665 feet high.  It is supposed to be completed this year, but I rather doubt that.  

Also along the Paseo de la Reforma, there appears to be no progress at all on the Torre Colón.  The construction area is still surrounded by barricades.  Peeking through the fence, it does not appear that they have even begun excavation of the foundation.  

The proposed tower is supposed to reach a height of 72 floors and 1036 feet, which would make it the tallest building in Mexico City, surpassing the recently completed Torre Mitikah.

While new buildings rise throughout the city, there are some structures that were damaged in the 2017 earthquake that have yet to be torn down.  Along Xola Avenue this government office building was closed due to structural damage.

In fact, for quite a while, the Metrobus station next to it was closed because authorities feared the building might collapse.  The station is open again.  I certainly hope they that decided that the structure is not going fall down on top of it, because I frequently use this station!