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2May/115

Sunday OUT and Erection Up! The Tower on Second Street.

Only at the Piazza! "Every day is an adventure," Bart Blatstein said to us last night as we watched the engineer weld the last piece of steel on the base of the Tower that now stands on North 2nd Street in Northern Liberties.

"This was just a thought in my head a few weeks ago."

With a creative mind and seemingly endless resources, Blatstein managed to salvage a 15,000 pound steel structure that once peered over the Piazza from the roof top of one of Tower Investment's properties on Hancock Street. "This will be a great meeting place for people," Blatstein explained to us. "Meet you at the Tower!" he said, with a sense of knowing that, that is exactly what people will do and say. "This is going to be an organic type of installation, ever changing, perhaps we'll add some greenery, a solar powered wind mill..."

I could see the sparkle in Bart's eyes as the possibilities for this Steel Tower began to reel though his mind. "I think it is important to salvage things. It is a reminder of the past. I think that is important. People should remember."  We listened intently trying to gain some insight from Mr. Blatstein. Sadly, we were interrupted by a call on Blatstein's cell and we headed home. Today the Tower stands strong much like those folks who are attending this Sunday Out!

What do you think? Got any fun nicknames for the Tower?

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  1. Summer- I thought the “Erection” would look like crap at first but I think I really like it. I understand that there will be more to it. But hate or love it, you can’t miss it.

    And to Chris- after seeing the huge Cuervo bottle outside El Camino last night for Cinco de Mayo, I thought for sure some drunk dude would be all over it.

  2. call it an “attractive nuisance” since that’s what the lawsuit will say once some drunk kid climbs it, jumps off and dies or cripples himself.

  3. I think it looks like crap.

  4. Cute Tommy.

  5. Nicknames? I think you got it in your title. Howbout: “Bart’s Erection”?


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