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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.