What's up today?

We have 2 pages today:

Pinnacle - with No Activity

32 Mann Street - a nameless government building with leases in the bottom storeys.

Come back in a few days for more fun with building sites.

Pinnacle

Where Pinnacle is, 16th April 2018

The Pinnacle site is behind the old Telstra building on Mann Street, opposite the 32 Mann Street site. The views from the upper floors will be of the trees on Kariong Ridge, lovely little Fagans Bay, the Gosford Broadwater and other parts of the Brisbane Water estuary and perhaps also the trees of Rumbalara Reserve.

The yellow crane in the background (right, against hill) is the one on Donnison Street West in West Gosford.

Lots of rocks at Pinnacle too, 16th April 2018

Lots of big rocks in the Pinnacle site too. Gosford is sandstone territory, as the old quarry on top of John Whiteway Drive attests.

You can see the old quarry marked on the map on the little kiosk thing in Kibble Park in the centre of Gosford. And you can see its 19th century products in buildings like the Art Deco building and the Consersatorium on the uphill corners of Mann Street and Georgiana Terrace. If you look at the side of the Conservatorium, you can see the windows of the holding cells from back when it was the police station.

Pinnacle is another tight site, 16th april 2018

The Pinnacle site is so tight, and the parking on Mann Street so tight lately too, that workers' parking is squeezed in on-site.

Pinnacle's only workers' access, 16th April 2018

This narrow driveway is the only access to the Pinnacle site. It comes off Mann Street between a small cafe and the old Telstra building, just opposite the 32 Mann Street site.



 No Activity

No activity on this Henry Parry Drive site, 16th April 2018

While I was up on Henry Parry Drive aiming my camera down into the Pinnacle site, I popped around the curve of the road to see if much more progress has been made on the other active site on Hennry Parry Drive.

The answer was y-e-e--no. It was as silent as the grave again. Not sure what's going on there.



 Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford

For the last couple of weeks I've been putting out the call for local tradies to email me their work contact details and what sort of work they do for a free listing on this website and, when I get the time to add to it again, on my other site: Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford.

And I've just realised I left out a whole slab of local contractors and businesses and makers and growers by just calling for tradies. So any locally owned business or any local maker or grower can send me their work contact details and a bit about their work or business or agri-business. Tell me as much as you can and I'll edit it down so everyone gets around the same amount of screen space as everyone else.

It's FREE but it's for small and medium sized LOCALS ONLY. None with ownership outside the NSW Central Coast and its hinterland suppliers.

32 Mann Street

It was a dark and stormy afternoon at 32 Mann Street, 19th April 2018

32 Mann Street as seen from Mann Street near the corner of Georgina Terrace. The crane was hard at work picking materials up and moving them to where they were needed.

From the corner of Georgiana Terrace, 19th April 2018

On the left edge of this photo, we can see the 3-storey beige copshop behind the cars parked along Mann Street. With all these building sites and their workers' cars, parking space is often at a premium in Gosford these days.

View from Georgiana Terrace, 19th April 2018

On the left, an old Education Department building, right on the corner of Georgiana Terrace, on the right the recently finished Tax Office and in the middle another angle on 32 Mann Street.

For lease already, 19th April 2018

32 Mann Street is not yet finished and already it's for lease.

Lower floors & background views, 19th April 2018

We can see in this photo that not even the lower floors are finished. In the background, we can see a white light tower on the site, one of the wide blue light towers at the football stadium, the trees along the outside of the stadium, the playing field on Georgiana Terrace and, right on the right-hand edge of the photo, the back of the Tax Office building. The ridge in the distance are on Kariong ridge.

A busy site, 19th April 2018

3 workers busy about their work as an afternoon storm continues to build in the sky.

The apprentice getting a good workout, 19th April 2018

Internal scaffolding? Some sort of reinforcement bar? I can't tell. Help me out, gentlemen.

Easy does it, 19th April 2018

Whatever it's for, it needs to be carefully threaded through the external scaffolding to the workers inside.

Hard at work up top under a blue sky on another day, 16 April 2018

The 16th was a blue sky day but on Thursday the 19th the storm came at about three that afternoon, a good hour before knock-off time on most sites, I think. The views up the top of building sites are great but the work clearly has its weather hazards.

Access stairs being lifted up ready, 16th April 2018

The hirers out of scaffolding and access stairs around Gosford must be doing very well in this first fine flush of Gosford's 21st century building boom. Not to mention the hirers out of cranes, fencing, skips and the thousand other things every good building site needs. The area near Gosford a lot of those things come from is Somersby, up on the plateau at the top of Kariong Ridge.



 Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford
 
I'm putting out the call for local tradies to email me their work contact details and what sort of work they do for a free listing on this website and, when I get the time to add to it again, on my other site: Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford.

And I've just realised I left out a whole slab of local contractors and businesses and makers and growers by just calling for tradies. So any locally owned business or any local maker or grower can send me their work contact details and a bit about their work or business or agri-business. Tell me as much as you can and I'll edit it down so everyone gets around the same amount of screen space as everyone else.

It's FREE but it's for small and medium sized LOCALS ONLY. None with ownership outside the NSW Central Coast and its hinterland suppliers.

What's up today?

Faunce Street West

Beane Street East - I found out why this is a silent site.

Looking for the Crane Count map? 

Why do you hardly see me and my camera these days? Because things are hotting up in Gosford in terms of active sites. So I have to do them in bunches and because there are more sites, there have to be more bunches. I'll get back to your site soon. Meanwhile, enjoy having a stickybeak at the photos of everyone else's site.

Faunce Street West

Whole of the Faunce Street West site, 16th April 2018

This site sat idle for a good 6 months, with just its big yellow crane and two old houses on it. Then quite suddenly last month, it was cleared and the earthmovers came in and started digging out the spoil. We can see here spoil removal is still underway.

Steepish site with plenty of spoil, 16th April 2018

Here we can see from the upper and lower rooftop heights of the units to the left that this is a site of middling steepness. It's looking quite sandy so far but we'll have to wait and see what's under that sand, whether it's clay or sandstone.

Another of Gosford's tight site, 16th April 2018

It's also another very tight site, with the spoil trucks having to stop on the road itself and even the scrap bins having to be stacked up in the front corner of the site, behind the mesh.

Spoil being neatly dropped into a spoil truck while the traffic waits, 16th April 2018

Clean-up crew taking care of windblown spoil, 16th April 2018

Local traffic waits patiently as spoil is dropped neatly into a waiting spoil truck and the clean-up crew moves the windblown bits off the road. The winds have been quite strong this past week so the clean-up crews must have been very busy and the wind must have caused some significant safety issues and all-round aggravation on Gosford's building sites.

The hill we can see in the background of all these photos is Presidents Hill, also marked on some maps as Waterview Park. There is a lookout at the top of Presidents Hill. Access is by car from the end of Hely Street in West Gosford. The view from up there is down the length of the Brisbane Water to Barrenjoey lighthouse, Palm Beach and Pittwater in northern Sydney. Best photography light is early mornings and late afternoons.



 Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford

For the last couple of weeks I've been putting out the call for local tradies to email me their work contact details and what sort of work they do for a free listing on this website and, when I get the time to add to it again, on my other site: Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford.

And I've just realised I left out a whole slab of local contractors and businesses and makers and growers by just calling for tradies. So any locally owned business or any local maker or grower can send me their work contact details and a bit about their work or business or agri-business. Tell me as much as you can and I'll edit it down so everyone gets around the same amount of screen space as everyone else.

It's FREE but it's for small and medium sized LOCALS ONLY. None with ownership outside the NSW Central Coast and its hinterland suppliers.

Beane Street East

Silent site at the corner of Beane Street East & Hills Street, 16th April 2018

Silent as the grave. This site, a mid-sized apartment building on the corner of Beane Street East and Hills Street, has been silent for a few weeks now.

Tigertail cover for visibility only, 16th April 2018

As I stood there looking at it and wondering why, the people responsible for preventing workers from being fried by powerlines saw me and told me what was going on.

The striped yellow cover over this powerline ("tigertail")can't prevent it from electrifying anything or anyone it touches. It's just preventing the powerline from being damaged by making it more visible to trucks and cranes and so on.

Powerlines too close for safety, 16th April 2018

Here in this photo, we can see how close the powerlines are to the scaffolding on the Hills Street side of the site. That's too close. Close enough that a strong wind gust (which we've had plenty of) or a slight tilt too far of a piece of equipment or building material could come into contact with the powerlines and that would electrify the whole of the scaffolding and anything or anyone touching it. That's an ambulance job and probably one or two cases of body-bags so no wonder the site is closed down until it's sorted out.

Good luck to all who sail in her and may work safely resume sooner rather than later.

 
 Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford

For the last couple of weeks I've been putting out the call for local tradies to email me their work contact details and what sort of work they do for a free listing on this website and, when I get the time to add to it again, on my other site: Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford.

And I've just realised I left out a whole slab of local contractors and businesses and makers and growers by just calling for tradies. So any locally owned business or any local maker or grower can send me their work contact details and a bit about their work or business or agri-business. Tell me as much as you can and I'll edit it down so everyone gets around the same amount of screen space as everyone else.

It's FREE but it's for small and medium sized LOCALS ONLY. None with ownership outside the NSW Central Coast and its hinterland suppliers.

What's up today?

Batley Street West Gosford

Wilhelmina Street West Gosford

Fielder Street West Gosford

There's also the Crane Count map from last week to have a look at, to see who's where and how many cranes there are now in the Gosford area.

See you next week with more building site snaps as we watch Gosford grow.


 By the way 

This page is the 100th one on this website. 

Fielder Street

Fielder Street site is called 'Bayview', 7th April 2018

The Fielder Street site now has a name: 'Bayview'. There's a pub in Woy Woy, just 15 minutes down the road, by the same name that overlooks Woy Woy Bay. In the case of this site, the bay that will be viewed will be quiet little Fagans Bay.

(Fagans Bay is often confused with the similar-sounding Phegans Bay which is down at the Woy Woy end of Brisbane Water.) 

Digging further down, 7th April 2018

Before those views are seen from the finished building, there's some more digging down to be done so the foundations can go in and then the building on top of them.

King of the heap, 7th April 2018

It's not the great sandstone hill that Wilhelmina Street was but this site doesn't look like an easy dig either.

Building materials neatly stacked up, 7th April 2018

Neat stacks of building materials and other stuff neatly stacked up ready on the other third of the site.

Fielder Street, like Hargraves and Kendall Streets, Lynn Avenue and Beane Street East, is not wide street. It's just one lane, in fact, and that's not ideal for deliveries of materials or for those big articulated trucks that take the spoil away. Happily, there's a derelict site immediately opposite that the trucks can use to turn and back up on. The workers on the other narrow streets would be very envious.


 Crane count

Last week I put up a map of all the cranes in the Gosford area. Have a look and see which ones you can see from where you are.


 Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford

This is a call for local tradies, contractors, supplies, other businesses and makers and growers to email me their work contact details and what sort of work they do for a free listing on this website and, when I get the time to add to it again, on my other site: Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford.

Email me your work contact details and a bit about your work or business or agri-business. Tell me as much as you can and I'll edit it down so everyone gets around the same amount of screen space as everyone else.

It's FREE but it's for small and medium sized LOCALS ONLY. None with ownership outside the NSW Central Coast and its hinterland suppliers.

And you can pop over and look at those locals already listed on my Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford website.

Wilhelmina Street

Wilhelmina Street site seen from Donnison St West, 7th April 2018

'Harbour View' apartments at Wilhelmina Avenue is a tight site so the materials and so on have to be stacked up in a small empty block behind the site, on Donnison Street West.

Wilhelmina Street site from lower Batley Street, 7th April 2018

Work on site is up to the 6th floor (including ground floor) with interior work on the lower floors having been started.

Ditch-witch & ditch at Wilhelmina Street site, 7th April 2018

We've had a bit of rain at night lately and I doubt that's helping the ditch-witch operator.

'Harbour View''s wavy front from Wilhelmina Street, 7th April 2018

Here we can see how wavy the shape of the facade of 'Harbour View' is. It's the only shaped one I've seen so far in this building boom.


 Views

Brisbane Water & Fagans Bay* from Batley Street, 7th April 2018

Brisbane Water (left part of water) and Fagans Bay (right part) from the corner of Wilhelmina Avenue and Batley Street. We're looking south here, towards Sydney.

* Fagans Bay is often confused with the similar sounding Phegans Bay which is near Woy Woy station.



 Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford

This is a call for local tradies, contractors, supplies, other businesses and makers and growers to email me their work contact details and what sort of work they do for a free listing on this website and, when I get the time to add to it again, on my other site: Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford.

Email me your work contact details and a bit about your work or business or agri-business. Tell me as much as you can and I'll edit it down so everyone gets around the same amount of screen space as everyone else.

It's FREE but it's for small and medium sized LOCALS ONLY. None with ownership outside the NSW Central Coast and its hinterland suppliers.

And you can pop over and look at those locals already listed on my Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford website.

Batley Street

Batley Street apartments, 7th April 2018

Rising above it all on the peak of the hill.

Brick walls going up inside, 7th April 2018

Brick walls going up inside, 7th April 2018

Brick walls going up inside, 7th April 2018

Brick walls and doorways going up over the concrete core inside the building.

Kariong Ridge in the background, 7th April 2018

That's Kariong Ridge in the background. And the weird blue thing in the bottom right corner is someone's car roof.

Batley Street apartments, 7th April 2018

In the background, Fagans Bay on the left and the light industrial part of West Gosford on the right, at the bottom of Kariong Ridge. This building, and 'Harbour View' in Wilhelmina Street, will have views of the trees on Kariong Ridge as well as views down into little Fagans Bay and down the length of Brisbane Water. The lighthouse on Barrenjoey Head, in the mouth of Broken Bay, flashes at night and should be visible from many of the upper apartments in both buildings.


 Crane count

Last week I put up a map of all the cranes in the Gosford area. Have a look and see which ones you can see from where you are.


 Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford

This is a call for local tradies, contractors, supplies, other businesses and makers and growers to email me their work contact details and what sort of work they do for a free listing on this website and, when I get the time to add to it again, on my other site: Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford.

Email me your work contact details and a bit about your work or business or agri-business. Tell me as much as you can and I'll edit it down so everyone gets around the same amount of screen space as everyone else.

It's FREE but it's for small and medium sized LOCALS ONLY. None with ownership outside the NSW Central Coast and its hinterland suppliers.

And you can pop over and look at those locals already listed on my Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford website.

What's up today?

 Crane Count

Some of you have seen it and some of you haven't. It's at Crane Count. 


 Singo's tower AKA Bonython Tower

Latest crop of photos from this speedy site.


 Tomorrow or Thursday

West Gosford.


See you in a day or two.

Singo's tower AKA Bonython Tower

Mann Street frontage, 7th April 2018

The Mann Street frontage of the Bonython Tower, AKA Singo's tower, from the council carpark, one of the few good photo spots left for this site.

Work on the residential tower, 7th April 2018

A few of the workers up on the residential tower, against the backdrop of trees on Rumbalara Reserve.

Putting up safe sturdy access stairs, 7th April 2018

Safe sturdy access stairs being set up on the Mann Street frontage.

Seen from the end of Paul Lane, 4th April 2018

Some locals watch from the footpath at the end of Paul Lane. The green crane's operator at lunch at the site end of Paul Lane.

Seen from Kibble Park, 4th April 2018

Some locals watch from Kibble Park in their lunch hour.

Sky-high confab in Paul Lane, 27th March 2018

Fluoro vests and scaffolding against a clear autumn sky. The photo angles in Paul Lane make some nice arty but butch snaps.

Workers level with Imperial Centre's rooftop carpark, 7th April 2018

Planning the next move, on the garden level of the residential tower.
 


 Crane count

Last week I put up a map of all the cranes in the Gosford area. Have a look and see which ones you can see from where you are.



 Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford

This is a call for local tradies, contractors, supplies, other businesses and makers and growers to email me their work contact details and what sort of work they do for a free listing on this website and, when I get the time to add to it again, on my other site: Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford.

Email me your work contact details and a bit about your work or business or agri-business. Tell me as much as you can and I'll edit it down so everyone gets around the same amount of screen space as everyone else.

It's FREE but it's for small and medium sized LOCALS ONLY. None with ownership outside the NSW Central Coast and its hinterland suppliers.