In all, BayWalk would encompass about 140,000 square feet, including a 20-screen Muvico cinema. Actually, new office space is one of the few building sectors not on the front burner downtown. But even without the office component, downtown continues to emerge. They'll be active construction sites, cranes and all. Moviegoers would get special discounts to park in the five-story garage and walk to the cinema complex a half block north.
Retail space is planned for the garage's street level.
You could have a crane at the Cramer Building soon. Normile was referring to the Cramer Federal Federal Building, at 144 First Ave. S, which is set for auction Jan. 27. The new owner might want to use the 1960s-era building as it is now, modify it or demolish it to make way for new construction. The center, on the southwest corner of Fourth Street S and Sixth Avenue S, continues the linkage of the college campus and the campuses of the two big hospitals nearby, All Children's and Bayfront Medical Center.