55 West Church Street Mixed Use Building

The '55 West on the Esplanade' project consists of a 34-story mixed use building and a 12-story parking garage that will be built on one half of a city block on Church Street located in the heart of downtown Orlando, FL. The building will contain both residential and commercial spaces. The first two floors will be retail and restaurant spaces, the third floor will be reserved as an Orlando City Art space, the remaining floors above level four will contain 405 condo units. The 12-story, 1,180stall parking garage will have 6 levels of public parking with the remaining reserved for the condo residents. On top of the parking garage will be a heavily landscaped area with pool, bar, and four 2-story townhomes. The building also contains architectural elements to stand out in the Orlando skyline including a glass structure on the roof of the building, cantilevered slabs on the roof of the penthouses and a pre-cast art panel in the center of the building that spans 7-stories.

The foundation of the project consists of 1090 auger cast piles. These piles are 16" in diameter and extend 70 feet below the bottom of the pile caps. There are 4,680 cubic yards of concrete in the pile caps with the largest caps being 56x48' and 15.5' deep. Both the tower and garage are concrete structures with post-tensioned concrete slabs. There is over 58,800 cubic yards of concrete on the project, 3,400 tons of rebar and 660 tons of post tension cable. The sequence for building the tower structure will consist of pouring elevator core & columns, pouring the floor slab in two sections with a 9 day cycle for forms. The sequence in the garage will be similar, sheer wall, stair towers & columns, and floors broken into three pours with a 12 day cycle for forms.

The exterior envelope of the tower will consist of storefront glass system and Carbon Cast Pre-cast concrete panels. The garage will be an open air garage with CMU block walls with a stucco finish.