The Buffalo News: SolarCity factory slowly taking shape
Published:
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 14:58
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Construction activity hums along on Monday at the SolarCity site,
which runs along South Park Avenue between Abby Street and the
Buffalo River. About 250 workers were at the 88-acre site on Monday,
with crews expected to top 1,500 as the pace of work picks up.
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The SolarCity solar panel factory on South Park Avenue in Buffalo is slowly taking shape, with a steel rib of the plant now stretching nearly from one end of the site to the other.
And now that the weather has finally cleared, the pace of work is expected to pick up rapidly on the sprawling 1.2-million-square-foot factory – big enough to hold eight Home Depot stores.
On Monday , about 250 construction workers were working on the 88-acre RiverBend site on the banks of the Buffalo River, drilling steel pilings, erecting structural steel and pouring the factory’s concrete slab. Crews have started installing the metal roof frame on the northernmost portion of the building as they push toward a goal of having the plant enclosed this fall.
