Level Apartments

[Spartan]

Soooooooo we all cool?

[wschnitt]

Yes. Other than Native Roots, has any other restaurant/food option been rumored to be leasing space in LeveL?

[dankrutka]

Great new pictures up on LEVEL's website: http://www.levelokc.com/build

[Rover]

The grey bricks are nice for a change. Is that the final color for the stucco?

[betts]

I think it is. It looks grey at time, but white when the sun is shining. And now I'm wondering if it's really stucco, as there are seams that I didn't see originally. Richard McKeown said it would be stucco, but he might have thought we wouldn't know what he was talking about if he said EIFS. The layer beneath is not styrofoam, however.

[Rover]

Stucco is a pretty generic term and can be applied a number of ways and like everything, in different quality styles. Generally stucco just means natural materials. EIFS can be applied similarly with backing board but generally is over a type of styrofoam board. Typically though stucco has more layers and finishes over wire mesh. Interestingly, some better homes here now stucco directly over solid brick walls.

[Urbanized]

I drove by and looked at it the other day. The material they are using is called ezwall/ezcryl ( website -- doesn't open in Chrome ). The acrylic-based plaster product looks like it's formulated for EIFS installation (foam board) but can also be used for a more traditional stucco application. The way they are going about it is to first place what appears to be a cement board (didn't get a close look; I was driving by), then putting a mesh over it and applying the ezcryl stucco.

The appearance will be indistinguishable from EIFS, but it should be much more durable AND should deaden sound far better. So it DOES look like they are going above and beyond the typical EIFS standard, quality-wise.

[Spartan]

I think it is. It looks grey at time, but white when the sun is shining. And now I'm wondering if it's really stucco, as there are seams that I didn't see originally. Richard McKeown said it would be stucco, but he might have thought we wouldn't know what he was talking about if he said EIFS. The layer beneath is not styrofoam, however.

He answered a lot of very pointed questions on EIFS, including a response from him that was put up on OKC Central.

[bluedogok]

Down here in Austin most projects with "stucco" are similar to the process that Rover described, Portland Cement Plaster over mesh and most of them that we have done have a color acrylic coat over it similar to the coating of EIFS but with stucco it usually on a bit thicker. The acrylic coat acts as a weather barrier helping to seal the stucco, we also use it on concrete tilt-wall panels as the finish coat. It does have to be re-coated every so often (usually 10 years or so in Austin) and if they cement isn't completely dry you can get some efflorescence showing up, which can happen to raw concrete or stucco as well. In large areas the coating way of doing it can much much cheaper than integral color stucco or concrete and usually renders a more consistent color since concrete/cement batches can vary quite a bit affecting some integral colors more than others. Most integral color that I have done around here was white which tends to be a bit more forgiving than darker colors.

[Pete]

From today:

[Spartan]

Wow.

[MDot]

Wow.

Precisely.

[OKCisOK4me]

That pic looks like a model...kinda weird!

[MDot]

That pic looks like a model...kinda weird!

Haha it does, I didn't notice that.

[dankrutka]

Yes. Other than Native Roots, has any other restaurant/food option been rumored to be leasing space in LeveL?

Anyone heard anything? You'd think they'd have an idea by now. This area is going to do awesome... I'd think a lot of restaurants/bars would want in...

[BoulderSooner]

the glass is now going up at the native roots store front

[lasomeday]

From today:

I like the idea of the parking in the middle for construction crews to park.

[metro]

That pic looks like a model...kinda weird!

Reminds me of Mr. Rogers neighborhood

[ljbab728]

I like the idea of the parking in the middle for construction crews to park.

What, no mysterious white van?

[Pete]

Level just uploaded some new construction pics.

The ground-level interior shots are of the Native Roots space.

Love the emerging urban scene shown from the DD pocket park, with Level, the Brownstones, the sculpture, Maywood Lofts and Devon rising in the background.

Also, looks like they are committed to using some bright bits of color in the parking garage and probably beyond.

[circuitboard]

Yuck! Those cabinets are very cheap looking... and white appliances, with white tile? So freaking boring for an urban apartment in my opinion.

[Pete]

The lower cabinets and granite countertops will be all black:

[circuitboard]

Yeah maybe once it is all done it will look better, that picture just really made it look cheap.

[Spartan]

None of the fixtures seem all that different from the renderings, however.

[mcca7596]

Rendering of room: